Posts Tagged ‘health’
 

 
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World Food Day: The Cost Of Meat

The devastating effects of mass meat production and how the increasing demand for meat has changed the world. Most people love meat and they always have, especially in Europe, meat can be found on consumers plates on a daily ba...
by Nane Steinhoff
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COP18: Climate change and Africa’s health

For health anywhere to be sustained, people need clean air, safe water, adequate food, tolerable temperature, stable climate, and high levels of biodiversity. Climate change is envisaged to alter all these requirements of a hea...
by Daniel Wasonga
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50Days4Gaza: Declining health in the Gaza strip

Following 2014’s 50 day siege between Israel and Palestine, health and humanitarian conditions in the Gaza strip have quickly declined. Only last month 25 representatives from the United Nations gathered in Jerusalem to p...
by Abbie Saunders
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One Step Closer To Treating Schizophrenia And Many Other Mental Disorders

108 genes have been identified as being linked to schizophrenia, some of which we already knew about, but most of which are newly found revelations. The encouraging results have also convinced the US to invest $650 million into...
by Jonathan Moens
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WATCH: Global Sanitation – Let’s Talk Crap

In this TED talk, British journalist and author Rose George discusses – with enjoyable and necessary humour – diarrhoea and global sanitation. She offers some sobering statistics: 2.5 billion people – 40% of the world’s...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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From Littering to Spitting: Sanitary Problems in India’s Public Spaces

Lack of hygiene in India’s public space is not a new occurrence. It has stayed in the country for many generations and continues to grow to this day, without people realizing that keeping their environment clean is a societ...
by Urban Times
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Ebola: A real threat to the West?

Awareness of ebola in the Western consciousness has increased dramatically in the past few weeks after the first person in Europe (a nurse based in Madrid) was reported to have contracted the virus. This was closely followed b...
by Abbie Saunders
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WATCH: One Step Closer to a Cure for Cancer?

At age 5, Emma Whitehead was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Two years ago it looked like the disease would kill her; she had relapsed twice after chemotherapy and all conventional treatments had failed. This extr...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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The Future Of Medicine: How Telemedicine Could Combat Epidemics

The phrase “six degrees of separation” has its roots in the 1969 small-world experiment of Stanley Milgram. He distributed packages to citizens in Omaha and gave them only the most skeletal information about the unknown rec...
by Brandon Engel
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