Category: Health
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Women’s Lung Cancer Rates In The UK Expected To Surpass Men’s For the First Time
According to charity figures reported by The Guardian, there would likely be 34,835 women diagnosed with cancer in 2038-2040, compared to 31,353 males.
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US-Based Religious Conservatives Groups Lobby to Restrict Abortion in Africa
Family Watch International, a Christian conservative NGO whose anti-LGBTQ+ position, anti-abortion activities, and “intense focus on Africa” led to its categorization as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre.
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Discussing Eye Health with Dr Gladys Atto, the first and only ophthalmologist in Uganda’s Karamoja Subregion
Dr Gladys Atto is the first and only ophthalmologist in the Karamoja subregion in Uganda. She is also one of only 45 ophthalmologists in the entire country.
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Fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases with Sightsavers: A Dialogue with Joy Shuaibu
Joy Shu’aibu is the Director of Programme Operations for Nigeria at Sightsavers. Sightsavers works across Africa and Asia to end avoidable blindness, treat neglected tropical diseases and promote equality of opportunity for people with disabilities.
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Health Professionals Advise Pregnant Women to Steer Clear Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Women who received traditional treatments throughout pregnancy had children who were twice as likely to be born with birth abnormalities as those whose mothers did not.
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Health Professionals Advise Pregnant Women to Steer Clear Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Women who received traditional treatments throughout pregnancy had children who were twice as likely to be born with birth abnormalities as those whose mothers did not.
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Iowa City: High School Senior, Dasia Taylor, Invents Colour-changing Sutures to Detect Infections
The average skin pH is 5, but an infection might cause it to rise. Taylor’s beetroot juice-dyed sutures will change from red to purple at that point.
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AMA Says Childbirth is Far More Lethal for Women Than Abortion Pill As Judge Weighs Mifepristone Ban
AMA Says Childbirth is Far More Lethal for Women Than Abortion Pill As Judge Weighs Mifepristone Ban
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FGM: Survivors Speak on the Reality of Female Genital Mutilation
There is a general belief among the people of Bini, South-South Nigeria, that an uncircumcised female is a taboo.
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“I wasn’t dirty; I just had eczema.”
A teacher told me, in hushed tones, that I had eczema on the skin behind my ears and around my nose. I immediately thought I got it from being dirty or from someone in my class, so when I got home, I washed it with medicated soap rigorously.