World Health Day, celebrated on 7 April every year to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO, provides us with a unique opportunity to mobilize action around a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world.…
World Hepatitis Day 28th july 2016
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World Autism Awareness Day 2nd April
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World Water Day 22nd march
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World kidney day 2016
World Kidney Day 14th march The theme for 2016 will focus on Kidney Disease & Children: Act Early to Prevent It. To raise awareness about the same, here we are presenting a few interesting facts about kidney. They’re not just…
World No Tobacco Day 31st may
World No Tobacco Day 31st may “Stop illicit trade of tobacco products ” is this year’s theme The illicit cigarette trade is defined as “the production, import, export, purchase, sale, or possession of tobacco goods which fail to comply with legislation”…
World AIDS Day 1st December 2014
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What can high-vitamin D foods do for you? In looking at the growing number of Google searches for vitamin D over the past several years, it is abundantly clear that vitamin D is very much on our collective mind. About…
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Stroke warning signs October 29, 2012 is World Stroke Day Stroke is a condition in which blood flow to a part of the brain is disrupted, resulting in oxygen starvation, brain damage and loss of function. “Over 40 percent of…
World Food Day 16th october 2014
Family Farming is the focus of World Food Day 2014 World Food Day is celebrated in honour of the date of the founding of the FAO of the United Nations in 1945. It is also now considered as Food Engineers’…