Over one billion people at risk of hearing loss: WHO
Alerting that over one billion people aged 12 to 35, risking losing their hearing due to prolonged and excessive exposure to loud music and...
We Must Carry on Paul Farmers Work on Social Determinants of Health
ABUJA, Mar 02 (IPS) – Paul Farmer, the legendary global health equity warrior, recently died in his sleep from heart-related complications at the University...
Ukraine crisis: UN agencies support rising tide of refugees
The number of people fleeing the Russian onslaught in Ukraine surpassed 874,000 as of Wednesday morning New York time, data from the UN refugee...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 02 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8.The devastating effects...
<em>International Womens Day, 2022</em><br>Women Demanding Justice & Peace in the Streets of Myanmar
<em>International Womens Day, 2022</em><br>Women Demanding Justice & Peace in the Streets of Myanmar
NEW YORK, Mar 02 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. This will be...
Young Argentine Women Forge a Future in Cooperative Factory
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 02 (IPS) – “We started making shampoos and soaps in the kitchen of a friend’s house in 2017. We were five...
Its Time to Step up for Street Vendors Rights
MUMBAI, India, Mar 02 (IPS) – In the second week of January 2022, Purushottam—locally known as Prashant—a street vendor in central Delhi’s Connaught Place...
With One Million Species Endangered, the Web of Life Is at Risk of Extinction
MADRID, Mar 02 (IPS) – These are not by any means just mere figures. It is about the risk of extinction of the whole...
Fecal transplant pills helped some peanut allergy sufferers in a small trial
PHOENIX — Pills loaded with bacteria from other people’s poop might help adults who are highly allergic to peanuts safely eat the nuts in...
Marie Maynard Daly was a trailblazing biochemist, but her full story may be lost
Marie Maynard Daly is known as the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry, earned in 1947 from Columbia University. It’s...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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