15 Syrian Children Die of UN Measles Vaccines
Thursday, 18 September 2014 The UN has halted a measles vaccination campaign in northern Syria after at least 15 children died after receiving shots, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and…
Sunlight plus lime juice makes drinking water safer
20 Apr 2012 Looking for an inexpensive and effective way to quickly improve the quality of your drinking water? According to a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg…
Mother’s milk improves the physical condition of future adolescents
Public release date: 5-Jan-2011 - “If all children were exclusively breastfed from birth, it would be possible to save approximately 1.5 million lives”. - The paper, which was published in…
Child Soldiers In Syria: Sick Mascots or the New Face of Global Jihad?
posted by Versha Sharma on March 22,2013 in Sneak Peek Young kids with Ak-47s. Really young. As in toddlers. Some of the rebels in Syria’s civil war think it’s cute.…
Child marriages: 39,000 every day
Contact: Marshall Hoffman marshall@hoffmanpr.com 703-801-8602 Hoffman & Hoffman Worldwide More than 140 million girls will marry between 2011 and 2020 NEW YORK, 7 March 2013 – Between 2011 and 2020,…
First national zinc campaign for childhood diarrhea increases awareness, but use lags behind
Public release date: 2-Nov-2009 - Use of zinc was found to be safe, with few side-effects, and did not affect the use of traditional treatments for diarrhea. - Clinical trials…
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