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Are our policies to fight child malnutrition deeply flawed?

May 21, 2013
Are we making the wrong choices in battling child mortality? That seems to be the case as one of the largest live studies on child malnutrition showed that the normal standard policy followed by many developing nations including …

Post-operation survival rates have increased by 88% in the last 50 years!

September 25, 2012
A paper by Lancet suggests that survival rates post-surgery has improved drastically in the last half a century. According to the report, the likelihood of dying after general surgery has dropped by 90% from the 70s while the …

Indian women show higher rates of tobacco use

April 26, 2013
The largest ever world wide study has dug its heels into the tobacco crisis. According to the international survey , nearly half of all men and 1 in 10 women use tobacco in many developing countries.  In 2008, India banned …

Tobacco likely to kill 8 million people by 2030

April 26, 2013
According to the Lancet medical Journal, forty percent of men in developing countries either smoke or use smokeless tobacco.  Tobacco is likely to kill half of its users. There are huge disparities in the rates of smoking …