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Small doses of vitamins could make a huge positive difference to the world’s health, especially if focused on the most important period in anyone’s nutritional life - i.e. the first 1,000 days.

 

Every day average life expectancy rises by six hours, and many babies born today may live to 100+, while experts are hoping to gain further clues about rejuvenation from organisms naturally resistant to ageing and dying.

 

A newly available tool reportedly has the potential to use DNA technology to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) quickly and accurately.  With minimal training, a health care worker can deliver these results in about two hours.

 

Research suggests lonely people are at greater risk of developing illnesses, such as heart disease and certain cancers and that the effect on mortality of loneliness is comparable with that of smoking and drinking.

 

A growing band of scientists known as "ecopsychologists" believe that we have an innate need to be close to the natural world on a daily basis in order to safeguard our physical and mental well-being.

A global foundation helps people who are significantly impaired by a physical limitation in their daily lives, and helps improve their integration into the wider society and economy.

 

Vaccines have saved the lives of millions worldwide, yet still, in 2009, in low-income countries, two out of five deaths in children under five were due to pneumonia or diarrhoea.

It is claimed that the malaria parasite has been responsible for half of all human deaths since the Stone Age.

 

700m or so extra people may move to cities by mid-century and may double or triple demand for health services, transport, energy, housing, sanitation, food and water.

 

Drug-resistant TB is now at record levels says a new UN report calling for better diagnosis of the disease.