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India hospital network launched to initiate life-saving colon cancer trial
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 25 (ANI/PRNewswire): Cancer surgery experts today launched a network of hospitals across India to support a country-wide clinical trial exploring how giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back. Led by expert
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Research shows how high infant mortality rates contributing to rise of glo
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Arguments for expanding access to family planning and contraception in low- and middle-income countries are supported by recent studies indicating that high infant mortality rates contribute to the unceasing expansion in the world's population.
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Targeting microbiome can improve child undernutrition: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Research led by Queen Mary University of London suggests that nutritional interventions used to tackle child undernutrition in lower and middle-income countries should target gut microbiome development, rather than just human nutritional needs, to more effectively improve child growth and de
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Make bold, sustainable investments to help free people of Neglected Tropic
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
NTDs are a diverse group of 20 conditions that are mainly prevalent in tropical areas. Globally, they affect more than 1 billion people, cost low- and middle-income countries billions of dollars every year, and perpetuate a cycle of poor educational outcomes and limited professional oppor
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China's lending debacle: Development loans hit 13-year low
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has left scores of Lower and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) saddled with "hidden debts." China is using debt rather than aid to establish a dominant position in the international development finance market.
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Trial finds chemotherapy before surgery cuts risk of colon cancer relapse
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to the results of a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial, giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back.
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World Bank: Indian migrant workers from Singapore, other countries send ho
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
That puts its inflows far ahead of Mexico (USD60 billion), China (USD51 billion), the Philippines (USD38 billion), Egypt (USD32 billion) and Pakistan (USD29 billion), positioning the country to retain its spot as the world's top recipient of remittances. Such foreign remittances make up almo
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India to receive over record USD 100 billion in remittances in 2022: World
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In its latest Migration and Development Brief, World Bank said remittance flows to India will rise 12 per cent, putting its inflows ahead of countries including China, Mexico and the Philippines.
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Partnership for Global Infrastructure, Investment to help developing count
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
This was launched to accelerate investment in quality infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries around the world and strengthen the global economy.
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Balanced meal timing may enhance brain health: Study
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): Dementia affects approximately 55 million people worldwide, and the disease's prevalence has steadily increased. The population is expected to triple by 2050, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Dementia not only reduces people's quality of li
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Study discovers women, men share same risk factors for cardiovascular dise
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Hamilton (Ontario) [Canada], September 9 (ANI): Researchers discovered that women and men share the majority of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). This is the first such study to include people not only from high-income countries but also from low- and middle-income coun
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G7's global infrastructure and investment initiative to checkmate China's
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 6 (ANI): The Group of Seven (G7) countries in June 2022 came out with a new programme - Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) to meet the financial and technical needs for building quality infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries in
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