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Handout of staff of the Teaching Hospital receiving the first vaccination treatment for yellow fever in El Geneina, West Darfur

Brazil’s Death Toll From Yellow Fever Triples: WHO

Reuters 24/01/2018

Yellow fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes...

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Bharat Biotech’s Typhoid Vaccine Gets WHO Nod

The WHO pre-qualification makes the vaccine eligible for procurement...

A memory is made up of a network of neurons in the brain. Credit: UCI Research/Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0

Medicine in 2017 Saw Big Breakthroughs in Child Neurology

Jay Desai 31/12/2017

An AIIMS paper published in the New England Journal...

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In 2017, India Was Caught Between Private Exploitation and Public Sector Callousness in Healthcare

Yogesh Jain 30/12/2017

Should the focus be on improving public health systems...

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In 10 Graphs, the Worrying State of Public Health and Malnutrition in Maharashtra

Niranjan Nampoothiri 29/12/2017

Maharashtra cannot retain its position as a progressive state...

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees, who suffer from diphtheria, are being treated at a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic near Cox's Bazar

Rohingya in Bangladesh at Risk of Deadly Diphtheria Face Shortage of Medics, Antitoxins

Krishna N. Das and Nurul Islam 29/12/2017

Doctors Without Borders has treated around 2,000 patients in...

Anoo_Soumya Swaminathan

If We Can Build Mangalyaan, Why Can’t We Do More in Health Sciences: New WHO Deputy Director General

Anoo Bhuyan 30/11/2017

Taking charge as WHO's deputy director general in December,...