Full coverage: Health

11.05.2006 Ashoka's Changemakers initiative is launching a global search for innovative strategies that provide high-quality, cost-effective, and scalable health solutions reaching low-income and marginalised populations around the world.

10.05.2006 As the World celeberates the 25th anniversay of the discovery of HIV/AIDS. Newsweek magazine reports on how HIV has increasingly become a disease of color

08.05.2006 Take the accomplishments of the "Millennium Villages", an initiative of the U.N. Millennium Project, which over the last five years has demonstrated how relatively small amounts of money spent on health, education, fertiliser and other essential services can dramatically accelerate progress towards the faltering Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

05.05.2006

BATTLING THE DISEASE: Malaria patients at the Civil Hospital in North Lakhimpur

Death toll in the State could be 500, say health officials
In the absence of blood slide test, official figure is low
Civil hospital is chock-a-block

04.05.2006 Prema istraživanju Svetske zdravstvene organizacije, deca u Srbiji, starosti od 11 do 13 godina, piju dvostruko više piva od vršnjaka u Irskoj, Izraelu, Litvaniji ili Rusiji, i čak 10 puta više od vršnjaka u Finskoj, piše beogradski list Glas javnosti. Prema potrošnji alkohola u litrima u ukupnoj populaciji, Srbija se nalazi na osmom mestu od ukupno 153 zemlje koje su učestvovale u istraživanju Svetske zdravstvene organizacije.

04.05.2006

hunger

* Millennium development goal of halving child hunger not possible till 2025
* 6,00,000 deaths can be averted with simple health interventions
* Early motherhood is also cause for malnutrition

02.05.2006 The Stanford University School of Medicine has signed on to a deal that will provide consumers and health professionals in China access to leading medical research in the United States.

02.05.2006 Why do some people live long lives, punctuated by only short periods of illness, while others die young after struggling with chronically poor health?