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Moms In ‘Survival Mode’ As U.S. Trails World On Benefits

Kasia Klimasinska and Sandrine Rastello | Bloomberg Politics | January 15, 2014

Roxanne Vivanco just returned to her banking job in Ramsey, New Jersey, after spending 12 weeks with her newborn daughter without having to deplete her savings. [She] was able to tap a state-administered benefit that finances family leave through employee payroll contributions. [...] Vivanco considers herself fortunate in a nation where only 12 percent of workers get paid time off to care for a baby or a sick parent, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Read More »

Acetaminophen In Pregnancy Linked To ADHD In Kids, Study Finds

Melissa Healy | Los Angeles Times | February 24, 2014

Children whose mothers took Tylenol during pregnancy were more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, researchers found. Read More »

American Public Health Association Seeks To Improve And Rebrand Public Health

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | November 11, 2013

The American Public Health Association adopted 17 new policy statements at its annual meeting Nov. 2-6 in Boston, issuing ambitious recommendations to public health officials and also trying to rebrand the field of public health. Read More »

Computerworld Honors 2013: Critical Health Data Sent To Rural Ghana Via Mobile

Mary K. Pratt | Computerworld | June 3, 2013

This mobile health platform, the 21st Century Achievement Award winner for health, aims to improve the availability and quality of healthcare services in rural Ghana and demonstrate best practices. Read More »

Delayed Marriage On Rise: Good For College Educated, Tough On Middle America

Press Release | Knot Yet | March 15, 2013

One of the major demographic and social changes of the last four decades has been the dramatic increase in the average age at which Americans first marry, from their early 20s in 1970 to their late 20s today. Delayed marriage in America has helped to bring the divorce rate down since 1980 and increased the economic fortunes of educated women... Read More »

EAC Mulls Project to Boost Maternal, Child Health

Press Release | East African Community (EAC) | June 6, 2012

The East African Community is set to launch before the end of this year a project to boost maternal and child health in the region. The project, named the Open Health Initiative, is envisaged to promote innovative interventions and enhance access to data and information for better results, better tracking of resources and stronger oversight of results and resources for women's and children's health nationally and regionall... Read More »

East African Community 'Open Health' Project to Boost Maternal & Child Health

Lusekelo Philemon | ippmedia.com | June 8, 2012

The East African Community is expected to launch before the end of this year, a special project named 'Open Health Initiative' geared to boost maternal and child health in the region. Read More »

Entrepreneurs Are Vying For Top Spot In StartUp Cup Competition

Khalida Sarwari | MercuryNews.com | October 4, 2012

The competition began in April with a pool of 25 business ideas with the potential for the greatest success. Out of that number, 12 were chosen to advance to the second round in September. Now, of the remaining seven, three will be chosen as winners in the third and final round on Nov. 1.
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Frontline Health Workers’ Key Role in Improving Nutrition

Sarah Dwyer and Geeta Sharma | CapacityPlus | June 6, 2013

Sunita Kumari was struggling to get her message across. Working as an auxiliary nurse midwife in Gumla District, Jharkhand, India, she kept trying to mobilize the women of Toto, a village of 941 houses, to participate in Village Health and Nutrition Days. [...] Read More »

Grant Awarded To Kytabu

Matt O'Reilly | Indigo Trust | May 23, 2013

Ensuring children have access to educational resources is a huge challenge [...]. In Kenya, however, Kytabu are working to tackle some of those issues. Read More »

How A $100 3D-Printed Arm Is Saving The Children Of Sudan

Julie Bort | SF Gate | January 7, 2014

A company called Not Impossible Labs has come up with one of the best uses for 3D printer technology we've ever heard of: printing low-cost prosthetic arms for people, mainly children, who have lost limbs in the war-torn country of Sudan. Read More »

If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Morra Aarons-Mele | Harvard Business Review | June 14, 2013

[...] Ideally, a brand and a woman of influence interact directly, one to one. But there's something that's increasingly coloring our relationship. It's her phone. The phone is more than our hardware. It's our lifeline. Read More »

Konektaz Open Development & Open Data

Staff Writer | Geeks Without Bounds | April 11, 2013

On April 15, 2013 the United Nations marked the 1000 day mark to the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals. The eight goals are [as follows]... Read More »

Mobile Phones Effective In Collecting Data From HIV-Positive Pregnant Women

Greg Slabodkin | FierceMobileHealthcare | June 10, 2013

Mobile phones were found both to be acceptable and feasible in the collection of maternal and child health data from women living with HIV in South Africa, according to an article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Read More »

Modern Medicine May Not Be Doing Your Microbiome Any Favors

Staff Writer | NPR Books | April 14, 2014

There are lots of theories about why food allergies, asthma, celiac disease and intestinal disorders like Crohn's disease have been on the rise. Dr. Martin Blaser speculates that it may be connected to the overuse of antibiotics, which has resulted in killing off strains of bacteria that typically live in the gut. Read More »