Health
Beatings and addiction: Pakistan drug 'clinic' prescribes torture
Hashish addict Noor Rehman has spent three years chained to a concrete slab covered by insects.
Jul 25, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Could polio make a comeback?
It's one of the most famous global public health success stories of the 20th century: the near-eradication of polio, the dreaded childhood disease that paralyzed or killed more than half a million people around the world ...
May 29, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Confusion reigns in Pakistan after polio guidelines
Pakistan, the world's number-one exporter of polio, has seen a rush on vaccines and angry scenes at hospitals after new World Health Organization guidelines aimed at halting the crippling disease caused widespread confusion.
May 21, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Polio's last stand on the Afghan-Pakistan border
Trundling across the Afghan-Pakistani border in a handcart, Shayma dismisses militant threats and conspiracy theories about polio vaccinators while her four children receive drops that could finally eradicate the crippling ...
Mar 5, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Better community engagement and stronger health systems are needed to tackle polio
In this week's PLOS Medicine two independently written articles call for a shift away from the leader-centric approach that polio eradication campaigns are currently pursuing in the three countries (Nigeria, Pakistan and ...
Oct 8, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Emirati man dies of SARS-linked virus in Germany (Update)
A man from the United Arab Emirates who was infected with a new SARS-related virus has died in Munich, German authorities said Tuesday.
Mar 26, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Measles deaths fall by over 70% in last decade, WHO reports
The global number of measles deaths dropped by 71 percent between 2000 and 2011 largely thanks to a boost in vaccination efforts, the UN World Health Organisation said Thursday.
Jan 17, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
WHO: 'Brain-eating amoeba' kills 10 in Pakistan (Update)
(AP)—A waterborne parasite commonly known as "brain-eating amoeba" has killed 10 people in Pakistan's largest city, a Pakistani official with the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Oct 9, 2012
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Health
Girl child marriages decline in south Asia, but only among youngest
Each year, more than 10 million girls under the age of 18 marry, usually under force of local tradition and social custom. Almost half of these compulsory marriages occur in South Asia. A new study suggests that more than ...
May 16, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
10 infected with polio in China outbreak
At least 10 people in northwestern China have contracted a highly infectious strain of polio, in the first outbreak of the disease in the country for 12 years, a United Nations group said Thursday.
Sep 22, 2011
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