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Giving zinc to newborns being treated with antibiotics for serious infections appears to save lives, according to a new study done in India.

Fuente: The Economist IN A windowless room on a quiet street in Framingham, outside Boston, Rob Goudswaard and his colleagues are trying to unpick the knottiest problem in health care: how to look after an ageing and thus sickening population efficiently.

Fuente: TED Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others, and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, Mr. Rosling graphs data over time and across religions.

Fuente: World Health Organization 2012 WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank estimates

Fuente: USAID In commemoration of Mother’s Day, Save the Children is publishing its thirteenth annual State of the Word’s Mother report.

Fuente: TED Talk Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine -- with fewer cowboys…

Fuente: TED Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control their rate of having kids.

Fuente: BILL & MELINDA GATES Foundation Undernutrition is an under-appreciated cause of about one-third of all deaths in children around the world before their fifth birthday.

Fuente: The Lancet Last month, the Lancet published a review analyzing inequalities in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions by intervention and country. Although SM2015 countries were not included in this analysis, the message, methodology and findings here are important to groups…