WORLD DIABETES DAY: Message of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

As the world rightly copes with infectious diseases, such as influenza, malaria, and especially recently, the Ebola virus, World Diabetes Day is a reminder that non-communicable diseases pose an even greater threat to human health.
Diabetes affects more than 350 million people in the world.  Many will suffer from its debilitating complications and die prematurely.  Cardiovascular disease kills half of all people with diabetes, which is among the leading causes of kidney failure.

One-Quarter of Women in Rural Bangladesh Report Pregnancy and Childbirth Complications

Survey Fills Data Gap in Region Where 75% of Births Are at Home

October 22, 2014
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that over one-quarter of women in rural Bangladesh experience complications during pregnancy, with hemorrhage and sepsis as the most commonly reported complications. The majority of childbirths in rural Bangladesh are at home with no trained health professional in attendance. The study was published in the October 4 edition of Biomed Central Pregnancy and Childbirth.