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‘Babies given solid food sooner sleep better’
Official advice is to breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of life. Experts say women should still heed this…
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DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to Mbandaka city
Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a city of a million people about 130km (80 miles)…
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South Asia babies suffer as pregnant women remain neglected
Kathmandu is hosting this week a regional conference on actions to accelerate improvements in women’s nutrition across South Asia. It…
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Chinese baby born four years after parents’ death
A baby has been born in China to a surrogate mother four years after his parents died in a car…
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Pakistan ranked 54th among 84 countries in tobacco smoking
Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarar Wednesday informed the Senate that Pakistan was ranked 54th…
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Woman with mystery illness forced to live inside 25-metre glass cage for 13 YEARS without hugging children or husband
Isolated Juana Munoz, 53, fears she may never be able to hold her first grandchild as medics are stumped by…
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Polio vaccination drive begins in KP, Fata today.
The government has initiated a five-day anti-polio campaign in Punjab and three-day anti-polio drive in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan and…
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UN calls for actions to end TB, AIDS by 2030.
On the eve of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, UN agencies warned on Friday that despite significant progress over the last…
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Cholera kills 9 in Nigeria.
Nine deaths have been recorded following an outbreak of cholera in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Bauchi, local authorities confirmed on…
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A game of chicken: how Indian poultry farming is creating global superbugs.
On a farm in the Rangareddy district in India, near the southern metropolis of Hyderabad, a clutch of chicks has…
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