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International Day of Action for Women's Health - AI generated
28
May

    International Day of Action for Women’s Health: Tech led solutions that are revolutionising women’s health

    • Mariyam Alavi / 4 days
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    • 17 min read

    Women’s health has been neglected, poorly studied and underfunded for far too long now. It is now well established that historically, women were excluded from most medical studies. They were conducted on men, and the data collected from them were generalized to women. In fact, many studies conducted on rodents too, excluded female rodents, as […]

    vaccines Dr Soumya Swaminathan
    28
    Apr

      World Immunization Week: Vaccines are probably one of the biggest innovation of the 20th century, says Dr Soumya Swaminathan

      • Mariyam Alavi / 1 month
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      • 17 min read

        According to the World Health Organization six lives have been saved every minute for the last 50 years, because of essential vaccines—that is 15.4 crore lives in five decades. “In these 50 years, vaccination accounts for 40% of the improvement in infant survival, and more children now live to see their first birthday and […]