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Soccer players lend a hand to malaria-free campaign

Soccer players lend a hand to 'malaria-free' campaign

With the Olympics on, it's a fever nobody seems to mind in the 54-nation continent at any time. Soccer fever, which afflicts nearly every African, has now become a powerful tool to kick malaria out of the continent of a billion people where the mosquito-borne disease kills about 2,500 people a day.

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October 3 2012, 11:45 am

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Disease trends in India 2012

Disease trends in India 2012

Diseases in 2012 followed a similar trend to previous years. India plays host to several seasonal ones like dengue, fever, malaria, tuberculosis and swine flu which show up during particular seasons in some particular states but that still didn’t stop our healthcare system to be caught completely

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January 2 2013, 10:04 am

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Lifestyle diseases on the rise in urban India

Lifestyle diseases on the rise in urban India

In recent years, India has managed to control communicable diseases like malaria, cholera and polio. However, the nation now has to deal with a new breed of developed world obesity-fuelled diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular ailments. Coupled with a sedentary urban lifestyle, increased

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April 26 2013, 12:22 pm

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