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By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Simple interventions such as using community workers to promote breast-feeding in villages have helped India improve the health of its women and children and could be good global examples, say aid workers, citing early findings from a U.N.-backed survey. The Rapid Survey on Children, conducted by the ministry of women and child development and supported by the U.N.’s children’s agency, UNICEF,
An unbeaten knock of 124 from Ambati Rayudu helped an under-strength India team scrape a narrow four-run win over Zimbabwe in Harare.
Legendary actor Omar Sharif, best known for Lawrence of Arabia, has died. He was 83. The Egyptian actor passed away in Cairo after suffering a heart attack, his agent confirmed to E!…
(NaturalNews) Until recently, I have avoided writing about the dangers associated with vaccination. This is partly because I felt I did not know enough about the subject to take a hard stance against their use in general. I did believe, and I still do, that many of the vaccines being…
(NaturalNews) According to the “Vaccinate All Children Act of 2015” (H.R. 2232), the United States federal government wants to take away all religious and philosophical exemptions or, in order words, require every school age child to get vaccinated – whether you like it or not…
(NaturalNews) Avocados have received enormous attention in the press and on social media in recent years. Once shunned as being too “high fat”, dieticians, researchers and others in the healthcare community are beginning to realize just how healthy these amazing fruits really are…
(NaturalNews) North Carolina authorities have announced a ban on all sales of live poultry, effective beginning August 15, 2015. The ban also applies to public livestock shows and poultry sales, such as the poultry exhibit at the North Carolina State Fair, which traditionally takes…
(NaturalNews) Conventional farming has become a reckless institution that pays no heed to soil nutrition, soil microbes, wildflowers and the natural habitat of pollinators. Under today’s conventional farming systems, insects and herbs are expendable. Farming now works against nature…
(NaturalNews) Israeli researchers have discovered an amazing plant native to their region that apparently helps treat type-2 diabetes naturally without the need for drugs or injections. But rather than promote the actual plant as a therapeutic option for patients, the team is instead…
(NaturalNews) The next time you find yourself at a busy restaurant, take a look around at the kids. Young tikes all the way to older teens are bound to have some kind of techno-gadget in their hands.Just last year, AVG Digital Diaries shared their findings on how the Internet…
