Health
Parent Alert! Your Kid May Be Vaping More Than Tobacco
Ana B. Ibarra By now, many parents know kids are vaping sweet-smelling tobacco — often using devices that look deceptively like pens or flash […]
Category: Health
Sustainable Business
Toxins on our plate: India
There is a need for better regulation and monitoring to bring toxin-free food to the Indian market. “The recent scare due to the detection […]
Biodiversity
One in Seven Wildlife Rangers Have Been Seriously Injured in the Line of Duty Over the Past Year
New results released by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to mark World Ranger Day reveal that one in seven wildlife rangers (14 percent) surveyed across […]
Data & Reports
Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns in US
JoNel Aleccia and Melissa Bailey As more Americans are diagnosed with dementia, families who have firearms struggle with ways to stay safe. With a bullet in […]
Education
Breaking menstruation taboo: Nepal
Cecial Adhikari Menstruation Hygiene Day 2018 was celebrated with tag line #nomorelimits. This illustrated no limitations or restrictions during menstruation including everyone, everywhere. Nepal […]
Data & Reports
icddr,b conducts first ever household level tracking of cholera transmission in Dhaka
Farasha Bashir/icddr,b Bangladesh’s capital – Dhaka – is classified as hyper-endemic as the city experiences two seasonal outbreaks of cholera every year. In spite […]
Biodiversity
Deadly measles epidemic hits isolated Yanomami tribe
A measles epidemic has hit an isolated Amazon tribe on the Brazil-Venezuela border which has very little immunity to the disease. The devastating outbreak […]
Health
Fearing Deportation, Immigrant Parents Are Opting Out Of Health Benefits For Kids in US
Ashley Lopez, KUT The fear of family separation is nothing new for many immigrants already living in the U.S. In fact, that fear, heightened […]
Data & Reports
Uranium ‘widespread’ in India’s groundwater
M. Sreelata Excessive withdrawal of groundwater across India is not only lowering the water table, it is also contaminating water with uranium. According to […]
Data & Reports
Protecting young Indonesian hearts from tobacco
Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti, University of Sydney and Becky Freeman, University of Sydney The world’s second-largest market for tobacco after China, Indonesia is home […]
Gender
What About the Boys?
Ishrat Jahan To put solutions into context, interventions require deeper understanding of the lives of adolescent boys in the urban slums of Bangladesh Rojib […]
Data & Reports
Cancers linked to obesity to double by 2025 in Brazil
The number of people suffering from cancers associated with obesity or overweight — such as breast, colon and prostate tumours — is expected to double in Brazil by...
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