Medicine
- Afghanistan, Health, Infectious diseases, Medicine, Pakistan, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World Health Organization, World news
Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding
After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakis…
- Colonialism, Diabetes, Food science, Health, India, Indian food and drink, Inequality, Medicine, Race, South and Central Asia, World news
How British colonialism increased diabetes in south Asians
South Asians today are between four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people. While …
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Women outperform men in Japanese medical school entrance exams, years after testing scandal
More women qualified for places than men for first time since universities admitted to deliberately failing fe…
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Cecilia Kim obituary
Many Koreans born in the early and mid 20th century led extraordinary lives that were buffeted by colonialism …