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Flu Vaccines Are Approved and Urged for Most
Herald Tribune

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it had approved vaccines for the next flu season, expected to start in the fall, and health officials are recommending vaccination for everyone 6 months old and older. Last year’s notorious virus, the pandemic A(H1N1) swine flu, has now become just one of the usual suspects included in a...
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Ghana has lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in sub-region

The search for a female-controlled method of HIV prevention continues

Peace FM Online

Ghana's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is 1.7%, the lowest rate so far in West Africa, according to statistics from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS). The prevalence rate has been dropping from 3.1% in 2004 to 2.7% in 2005 to the current...
photo: IRIN News / Mercedes Sayagues

Schools offering healthier options

Nashville Tennessean

Getting kids to eat can be difficult. But getting kids to eat healthy may seem nearly impossible at times. However, with the rate of obesity rising in America, it's important to shape kids' healthy eating habits early on, said Fred Blair, director of...
photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba

Obama envoy to visit India to engage with Muslims

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, speaks during a national town hall meeting on the Affordable Care Act, Tuesday, June 8, 2010, at the Holiday Park Multipurpose Senior Center in Wheaton, Md.

The Siasat Daily

Washington, July 31: Rashad Hussain, son of an Indian migrant couple from Bihar who is US Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, will travel to India Aug 1-9 to discuss Obama Administration’s initiatives on education, global...
photo: AP / Alex Brandon

Shutdowns, protests disrupt normal life in Valley

Kashmiri muslim protestors shout pro-freedom slogans

The Times of India

The Roman calendar is facing an open challenge in the Kashmir Valley. Over the past one month, the calendar that is being dutifully followed by the Kashmiris is the Hurriyat (Geelani) calendar, which is nothing but a line-up of shutdowns and...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar

Myanmar Loosens Yoke on Farmers

A Myanmar farmer ploughs rice paddy in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Monday, July 5, 2010.

Wall Street Journal

By A WSJ Staff Reporter YANGON, Myanmar—Moves by Myanmar's military regime to loosen its grip on the impoverished nation's once-mighty rice industry in advance of an election this year have raised cautious hopes for the nation's economy. After...
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Sibal asks States to end corporal punishment

School Students painting Competition, Pune, India

The Hindu

Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: With increasing cases of corporal punishment and discrimination coming to light, Union Human Resource Development Minister has now asked the civil society, parents and the students to speak up against the injustice in...
photo: WN / Geeta

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