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According to data collected by Unicef from 16 districts of Rajasthan, West Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh, the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) shows that women are dying of preventable causes of death.
Every single minute, one woman dies of complications of pregnancy or delivery! And for every death, there are at least 15 women suffering from the undesirable aftermath of such complications.
After years of caring for other people's children, fate mocked her by having her two sons diagnosed with a life threatening blood defect.
SINGAPORE: A recent study by the Ministry of Health revealed that about 4.5 per cent of the population, or approximately 189,000 people, carry the Thalassaemia gene.
GENEVA: The maker of a drug at the centre of a new Tour de France scandal says it collaborated with anti-doping experts to help catch cheats in sport.
The 102nd Paris-Tours will be taking place this Sunday, October 12, in Northern France. Being its last highlight, the 'Classic of the falling leaves' marks the end of the top sprinters' annual race programme, counting 252 pancake-flat kilometres from Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines to Tours.
8 October 2008, London UK - A study published today confirms that in the ten years since its initiation, the international effort to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) has made unprecedented strides towards ridding the world of one of its most debilitating diseases.
Question: "I harvested a deer during the archery season and observed a lot of ticks on the animal. Do these ticks harm the animal or affect the meat?"
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is spotlighting the introduction of a new tool in India that is designed to help health-care experts, policymakers and local communities across the country understand the root causes of its high rates of maternal mortality.
North Korea fired short-range missiles into international waters in the Yellow Sea as part of a routine military exercise, a South Korean defence ministry official said on Wednesday.
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