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INTERVIEW: Rapid response team, funding, vital to eliminating cholera in Haiti – UN official

New York, July 9 (Just Earth News): A rapid response mechanism is crucial to tackling an endemic disease such as cholera and eliminating it in Haiti, the deputy head of the UN mission there said on Friday, emphasizing that the effectiveness of such efforts requires predictable financing. more

Research finds that antibiotics are unnecessarily prescribed for conjunctivitis in children

Birmingham, July 7 (Just Earth News): New research from the University of Birmingham has found that a number of policies used by childcare providers for conjunctivitis are contrary to nation ...

INTERVIEW: UN health official discusses unprecedented vaccination campaign to tackle cholera in Haiti

New York, July 6 (Just Earth News): The World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for Haiti, Jean-Luc Poncelet on Tuesday stressed that vaccines along with water chlorination programmes ...

Contact lenses help fit into social circle, feel 60% Indian youth:Survey

New Delhi, July 1 (Just Earth News: A recent iConnect-Unframe, all India survey commissioned by Bausch + Lomb India, reveals that young Indians between the age group 13-20 years are increasi ...

New research shows exposure to household air pollution increases heart disease

Mumbai, June 30 (Just earth news): The increased risk of developing heart disease due to daily air pollution exposure is highlighted in several new studies, reports Blueair, a global leade ...

UN launching yellow fever vaccination campaigns on Angola-DRC border

New York, June 30 (Just Earth News): Amid an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations health agency is launching pre-emptive vacc ...

Godrej appliances to contribute towards 30% reduction in global vaccine wastage

Mumbai, June 29 (Just earth news): Over two million children under the age of five die every year in India and another one million or more are disabled for life due to a lack of vaccinatio ...

67 million children are infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, says study

Sheffield, June 28 (Just earth news): A new study examining the burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) across the globe has highlighted the importance of the disease among children.

Understanding how chemical changes in the brain affect Alzheimer’s disease

Toronto, June 25 (Just Earth News): A new study from Western University is helping to explain why the long-term use of common anticholinergic drugs used to treat conditions like allergies an ...

Sanofi Pasteur dengue vaccine approved in Costa Rica

Kolkata/Costa Rica, June 24 (Just Earth News): Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi's vaccine division, announced on Thursday that the National Ministry of Health of Costa Rica has approved Sanofi Pasteu ...