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MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Hotel Soap Fighting Disease Abroad
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, humans, world, society, protection, prevention, illness, children, Body-Mind-Spirit, safety, news )

Cal
- 189 days ago - cnn.com
Derreck Kayongo's Global Soap Project collects used hotel soap bars, reprocessing it to save lives in impoverished countries.
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HEALTHCARE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: Lack of Soap Means Illness, Death for Millions of Children
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, children, children, healthcare, world, health, study, prevention, protection, illness, disease, humans, Body-Mind-Spirit, death, safety, science )

Cal
- 192 days ago - cnn.com
Across the globe, 2.4 billion people do not have access to clean sanitation, according to the World Health Organization. An estimated 1.5 million children die every year because their immune systems are not mature enough to battle diarrheal and respirator
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Brazil Active in Effort to Widen Global Access to Medicines
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, health, world, news, GoodNews, goodnews, health, healthcare, Body-Mind-Spirit, drugs, medicine, illness, prevention, humans )

Cal
- 218 days ago - ipsnews.net
Brazil is keen to take part in the international effort to expand access to medicines and to produce its own drugs, and will start by becoming the world supplier of medicines to treat Chagas disease.
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Top 9 Health Care Systems in the World
Health & Wellness  (tags: Health Care, World, Medical, People, Government )

Katie
- 220 days ago - medicalbillingandcoding.org
Without question, improvements can be made. Problems such as delays in obtaining care and care coordination persist according to SocGen's Albert Edwards, it's the most inefficient and surveys have shown dissatisfaction from patients throughout the country
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Denmark's Fat Tax: Could It Happen in the U.S.?
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, diet, food, government, politics, fat tax, world, interesting, illness, humans )

Cal
- 233 days ago - theweek.com
The Danish government makes global history by imposing a tax on saturated fats. Could that levy be coming to a McDonald's near you?
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Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children---Video   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, americans, children, child, humans, rights, society, usa, world )

Kenneth
- 234 days ago - youtube.com
Meet Tristen and take 10 minutes of your time to listen to what he has to say. In foster care for 13 years, 5-18 yrs. old, he talks about his helplessness and pain he had to endure thanks to his case workers, psychiatry, and the system.
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INDIA: 10 Million Depressed - on the Optimistic Side
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, world, treatment, depression, India, food, government, ethics, investigation, protection, medicine, news, study )

Cal
- 258 days ago - ipsnews.net
While Indian psychiatrists have rejected a World Health Organisation (WHO) study portraying India as the depression capital of the world, they say it has indirectly drawn attention to an acute shortage of trained personnel and facilities to deal with ment
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In Rural Pakistan, A Rare Hospital Geared For Women
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Cal
- 278 days ago - npr.org
The private medical clinic is leveraging technology and the Internet to serve tens of thousands of patients a year who otherwise would have little or no medical care.
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Israeli Government Officially Recognizes The Therapeutic Value Of Cannabis
Health & Wellness  (tags: marijuana, medical marijuana, freedoms, humanrights, interesting, israel, politics, culture, education, ethics, family, freedoms, goodnews, humans, law, police, politics, society, world, AlternativeMed, disease, drugs, health, healthcare, humans, illness )

John
- 285 days ago - alternet.org
The Israeli government this week formally acknowledged the therapeutic utility of cannabis and announced newly amended guidelines governing the state-sponsored production and distribution of medical cannabis to Israeli patients
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GHI Targets Chronic Malnutrition in Guatemala
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, health, GHI, politics, obama, Guatemala, health, healthcare, humans, illness, disease, food, diet, prevention )

Cal
- 312 days ago - globalpost.com
"Invisible killer" stunts the bodies and minds of Guatemala's youth.Called the "invisible killer," chronic malnutrition isn't necessarily a lack of food but a shortage of the right kind. Faced with insufficient nutrients, especially protein, the body comp
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MY HEALTHY HOME, SIMPLE TRUTHS TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM HIDDEN HOUSEHOLD DANGERS!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: safety, society, warning, protection, prevention, food, Body-Mind-Spirit, children, healthcare, health, risks, research, interesting, home, humans, world, family, environment, warning )

SUE BARKO
- 359 days ago - myhealthyhome.com
Take simple steps to protect your family... Almost overnight, a toxic world has been built around us, slowly manipulating how we eat, sleep, work,
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THE POWER OF ONE!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: inspirational, humans, ethics, environment, Body-Mind-Spirit, interesting, wildlife, environment, conservation, society, world )

SUE BARKO
- 361 days ago - selfgrowth.com
Think one person can't change the world? Think again.
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The Deadly Impact Of Malnutrition
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, malnutrition, people, world )

Brucegu
- 375 days ago - holykaw.alltop.com
The World Health organization cites malnutrition as the gravest single threat to the world's public health.
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TODAY'S HEROES: Free Wheelchairs Give New Life to Rural Mexicans
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, humans, HEREOES, world, heroes, goodnews )

Cal
- 392 days ago - cnn.com
Richard St. Denis helps provide free wheelchairs for people in rural Mexico
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10 Most Prestigious Medical Centers in the World
Health & Wellness  (tags: Medical Centers, world, hospital, health )

Anna
- 404 days ago - mastersinhealthcare.com
The world is full of excellent medical centers all competing to make the newest medical discovery, perform the latest procedure and be a top-performing hospital with the best reputation. These renowned medical centers model excellent clinical practice....
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