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The 2023 Grant Cycle Co-Design Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence for Sexual and Reproductive Health for South Asia” took place from September 13–17, 2023, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. AI-SAROSH is an AI-powered platform that aims to transform...

Immunity to COVID-19 in children can last for up to nine months, Yevgeny Timakov, a specialist in infectious diseases and vaccines, told TASS on Thursday. “Scientific studies indicate that immunity in children lasts longer than in...

Two of the COVID-19 vaccines currently approved in the United States require two doses, administered three to four weeks apart, however, there are few data indicating how best to minimize new infections and hospitalizations with limited...

Amtali Thanchangya para is a remote village in Sadar Upazila of Bandarban Hill District. There is a lack of modern civic amenities. The people here dream of living in the midst of pure nature. Just as...

Globally, the number of babies born through cesarean section (C-section) almost doubled between 2000 and 2015 – from 12% to 21% of all births – according to a Series of three papers published in The Lancet...

Roughly 10.8 million American adults are currently using e-cigarettes, and more than half of them are under 35 years old, a U.S. study suggests. One in three e-cigarette users are vaping daily, researchers report in the...

Telenor Group has been recognized by Fortune magazine for its work to bring affordable healthcare to the mass market through its mobile health service, Tonic, in Bangladesh. Fortune, a globally renowned business magazine, included Telenor in...

A new study shows that for the vast majority of communities, sodium consumption is not associated with an increase in health risks except for those whose average consumption exceeds 5g/day (equivalent to 12.5g of salt, or...

Some 70 percent of women with early-stage breast cancer and an intermediate risk of cancer recurrence can safely skip chemotherapy after their tumors have been removed, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. “This is a major finding,”...

Involving parents as direct carers, including doing ward rounds and taking children’s temperature, improves weight gain of preterm infants in intensive care and reduces parent stress and anxiety. Parents whose newborns are receiving intensive care are...