Gender Selection Ads On Google, Microsoft Pulled In India In response to a petition filed by advocates in India, Google and Microsoft have pulled ads from their Web sites for gender selection products and techniques considered illegal in the country, AFP/Yahoo! News reports (AFP/Yahoo! News, 9/18).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPreventing Suicide In Low- To Middle-Income Countries An international study of almost 2,000 people in Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, Iran and China has shown that a low cost strategy to keep in contact with people who have previously attempted suicide, can reduce the risk of subsequent suicides. Given that suicide is among the top three causes of deaths in 15 to 34-year-olds, the strategy has the potential to help reduce the economic and societal loss of young people in their most productive years of life.
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