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Confidential documents outlining the World Health Organization's key recommendations for stimulating and financing research and development into diseases affecting the developing world appeared on a website on December 9th. Full Article at Scrip News
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Report by World Health Organization draws ire of International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers This week’s report by the World Health Organization regarding global tobacco use drew the ire of the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers, a U.S. Full Article at TransWorldNews
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New York, Dec 9 2009 9:10AM The vast majority of the world’s population is still exposed to the harmful effects of second-hand smoke, responsible for 600,000 premature deaths annually, despite the ban on smoking in public places being extended to... Full Article at Scoop - New Zealand News
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After an annual meeting of the Bilderberg Club in May 2009, the establishment of the global management system of institutions seemed to have been given a boost, repeating the plots of American apocalypitc blockbusters. Full Article at Global Research
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will lift a five year ban on animal-to-human transplant trials at the end of 2009, the National Health and Medical Research Council said on Thursday. Full Article at Reuters Health: eLine
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‘It’s a war’ To those trying to stamp our dengue in Kuala Lumpur, it can be very personal. "It’s a war. Full Article at MSNBC
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HIV-exposed but uninfected children grew as well as children of HIV-uninfected mothers, no matter how they were fed in the first two years of life in a non-randomised cohort study in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa from 2001-2004, Deven Patel and... Full Article at Pambazuka
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"Tobacco use kills at least 5 million people every year, a figure that could rise if countries don't take stronger measures to combat smoking, the World Health Organization said Wednesday," during the release its Global Tobacco Epidemic report, the... Full Article at Medical News Today
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NAIROBI, 10 December 2009 (PlusNews) - Kenyan patients on stavudine, an antiretroviral drug in widespread use, which the UN World Health Organization (WHO) wants phased out, will have to wait a little longer to be put on alternative medication. Full Article at IRINnews.org
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12/08/09 -- Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) gave his strong endorsement to the efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) to control tuberculosis (TB) worldwide, at a news conference Tuesday to unveil the WHO’s 2009 Global... Full Article at All American Patriots
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A controversy has erupted over the confidential workings of a World Health Organization group, which is supposed to examine financing and coordination of R&D between the public and private sectors for medicines needed to combat various diseases in... Full Article at Pharmalot
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said that only 5.4 percent of the world's population are protected by comprehensive smoke free laws. Full Article at Tom's Hardware Guide
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"Tobacco use kills at least 5 million people every year, a figure that could rise if countries don't take stronger measures to combat smoking, the World Health Organization said Wednesday," during the release its Global Tobacco Epidemic report, the... Full Article at News-Medical.net
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The official Korean Central News Agency said a quarantine system was in place and that medical treatment was under way. Full Article at Macleans.ca
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The World Health Organization estimates that over one billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water, and rely on purification that involves boiling water with firewood, which increases greenhouse gas emissions. Full Article at Glam.com
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Surveillance since the summer has only turned up three additional drug resistant viruses, the authors note in their letter to the New England Journal of Medicine. Full Article at Macleans.ca
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Smoking kills 5 million people annually, a number that may increase if countries don't increase efforts to fight it, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday. Full Article at RedOrbit
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Photos | Video: Part 1; Part 2 As part of this effort, we must seek to make membership in the BWC universal. We will be looking to work with you on outreach efforts to countries that have not yet joined the Convention. Full Article at US State Dept. - Travel Bureau
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Israeli authorities said on Thursday they will send up to 40,000 doses of swine flu vaccine to the Gaza Strip, where six people have died of the virus in the past five days. Full Article at Al Arabiya
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LONDON (AP) ― Tobacco use kills at least 5 million people every year, a figure that could rise if countries don't take stronger measures to combat smoking, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Full Article at CBS 5
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