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Conference Summary Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) aims to improve maternal health. Unlike other MDGs, few countries are on track to achieve even the first goal of MDG 5, namely, to reduce maternal mortality by 75%. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from the highest regional maternal mortality rate (MMR) at 640 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and the annual decline has only been 0.1%. In

Conference Summary Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) aims to improve maternal health. Unlike other MDGs, few countries are on track to achieve even the first goal of MDG 5, namely, to reduce maternal mortality by 75%. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from the highest regional maternal mortality rate (MMR) at 640 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and the annual decline has only been 0.1%. In

A £2.5m gift to Cambridge sport funds two new hockey pitches at Wilberforce Sports Ground for use by the University and wider Cambridge community. The gift marks a defining moment in the mission of the University to improve sports facilities and recognise the many wide-ranging benefits sport gives to all who take part.

They'll be touring to London, Edinburgh, California, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York and more but first they have to rehearse. The Cambridge Footlights are preparing to perform 'Pillow Talk', a show featuring numerous sketches largely based on those late night thoughts that you daren't say out loud. To find out more about the troupe visit their website: https://footlightsontour.co.uk/

Science writer David Adam has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In the second of a series of films, he meets researchers at the University of Cambridge to find out what animals – rats and marmosets – can teach us about the condition and how this can help in the development of new treatments.

Looking to join a new sports team this year? Not only does the Cambridge University Handball Club have space for experienced players and beginners, it also has room for fans who play musical instruments. #Handball #Sport #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge

Andrea Lee, Head of the Strategic Analysis team at the Department for Communities and Local Government, shares her experience of being a CSaP Policy Fellow and the ways new methodologies in research can be leveraged in government.

The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Dr Anthony Freeling, marked the start of the new academic year this morning by giving his annual address to the University in the Senate House.

Artist's impression of 55 Cancri e orbiting its parent star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date reveals a planet almost completely covered by lava, with a molten ‘hot’ side and solid ‘cool’ side. Read more: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/map-of-rocky-exoplanet-reveals-a-lava-world

Built by undergraduates working for their exams, with funds raised by the students themselves, Cambridge's solar car is the only British entry into the World Solar Challenge. Despite the odds, however, its radical design could still secure victory. - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/resolution-ready-to-shine-down-under#sthash.J5JFhIVd.dpuf