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Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant Arab women requires urgent attention

Pregnant Arab women have an "extraordinarily high prevalence" of vitamin D deficiency - a potential health issue for them and their babies, according to a new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Minority women least likely to gain access to a doctor, study says

One in three South Asian, West Asian or Arab women — one of the fastest growing segments of Canada's population — say they have trouble accessing a doctor to address an urgent health concern or to monitor health problems. ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Study: Social media and the Internet allowed young Arab women to play a central role in the Arab Spring

Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

High food prices derail Millennium goals: report

High food prices have derailed ambitious aims to slash extreme poverty and hunger across the world by 2015, a World Bank and International Monetary Fund report said Friday.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Lights go off around globe for Earth Hour

New York's Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Sydney Opera House were plunged into darkness for the annual Earth Hour campaign, leading a global effort to raise awareness about climate ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Egyptians want democracy, but not U.S. efforts to promote it: researcher

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Egyptian trial of employees of four American groups that were promoting democracy was abruptly postponed earlier this week. But the crisis in U.S.-Egyptian relations continues, for reasons, ...

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Liquid treasure or trouble? Political scientist explores downside of oil wealth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oil-rich countries would seem to have won the mineral equivalent of the lottery, tapping into the kind of vast wealth that their counterparts with more diversified economies could only dream of.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Where you vote may influence how you vote, researchers find

Passersby who stopped to answer surveys taken next to churches in the Netherlands and England reported themselves as more politically conservative and more negative toward non-Christians than did people questioned within ...

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created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

What happens to the young and educated without a job?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by the University of Oxford is looking at how young educated people who are unemployed become politicized in different ways - either through violent struggle or as reformers ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A look at how entrepreneurship and innovation will lead to future job creation in North Africa

It has been nearly a year since an uprising in Tunisia over unemployment and the soaring cost of living ended years of dictatorship. Today, as the county struggles to rebuild, what many do not know is that behind the scenes ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nobel laureates receive 2011 prizes at Stockholm ceremony

The 2011 Nobel laureates in medicine, literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday.

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

World population to hit 10 bln, but 15 bln possible: UN

The world's population of seven billion is set to rise to at least 10 billion by 2100, but could top 15 billion if birth rates are just slightly higher than expected, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

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created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 16


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