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World › WHO: Smoking kills 5 million every year
London :: United Kingdom | about 19 hours ago
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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. In a new report on tobacco use and control, the U.N. agency said...
Tags: World Health Organization, World Health Organisation, United Kingdom, London, Tobacco smoking, World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Other, Smoking in Argentina, Smoking, Passive smoking, Tobacco, Tobacco advertising, Demographic economics, United States, Cigarette, Aging, Social Issues, Gerontology, Demography, Pￃﾺblico, Population, Life expectancy
Health Advocates & Pharmaceutical Companies in Bed
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 1 day ago
Credibility The World Health Organization (WHO) and many other indexed publications ask people to sign a declaration form to declare any association with tobacco companies. Parties shall act to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of...
Tags: pharmaceutical companies, publications health, health advocates, tobacco industry, Hoosen Coovadia, Dr Coovadia, tobacco companies, taking money, control programmes, tobacco control, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Health Medical Pharma, Pharmaceuticals policy, Front organization, World Health Organization, Global health, Business Finance, Social Issues, Tobacco, Pharmaceutical industry
Global Fund approves $279 mln in new grants for India
New Delhi :: India | 1 day ago
Credibility Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Tuesday it has approved $279 million in new grants for India, taking total funds for the world's second-most populous country to more than $1.1 billion. India is the fund's second-highest recipient for money to fight HIV...
Tags: global fund, hiv, aids, India, New Delhi, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, World Health Organization, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Global health, Social Issues, Business Finance, Tuberculosis, International nongovernmental organizations
Hopes of new drugs, vaccines for tuberculosis
Cancún :: Mexico | 2 days ago
Credibility It was only in the 80s and 90s when TB resurged in the west and north that everyone woke up and the U.S. Although TB has plagued humankind for thousands of years, there is only one vaccine -- the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) developed around 1920 --...
Tags: TB Alliance, clinical trial, Mexico, Cancún, Health Medical Pharma, World Health Organization, Rifabutin, Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, Vaccine, Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Bacillus Calmette-Guￃﾩrin
World Health Organization workshop to open in Taipei
Taipei :: Taiwan | 2 days ago
Credibility The World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold a workshop in Taipei for the first time since Taiwan was admitted in May as an observer to the world health body's decision-making arm, the World Health Assembly. Chiou Shu-ti, director-general of the Bureau...
Tags: World Health Assembly, World Health Organization, promotion hospitals, Taiwan, Taipei, Health Medical Pharma, Health promoting hospitals, Health care, Nursing, Social Issues, Health, Department of Health, Hospital network, Public health, Health promotion
Flowers' office closed for good?
Broadview :: IL :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Renewed push to eliminate regional supt. post December 4, 2009 Charles Flowers might just be the last regional superintendent in suburban Cook County. Legislation in the works calls for abolishing the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education,...
Tags: regional office, Cook County, suburban cook, Margaret Longo, Broadview, schools district, World Health Organization, Cook County Illinois
H1N1 activity waxes, wanes: WHO
Geneva :: Switzerland | 7 days ago
Credibility So far, 150 million doses of H1N1 vaccine have been distributed in more than 40 countries, the World Health Organization says. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press) It's too early to say whether H1N1 activity is peaking in the Northern Hemisphere, a flu expert...
Tags: swine flu, World Health Organization, flu experts, h1n1 vaccine, Switzerland, Geneva, Pandemics, Influenza, flu pandemic, Health Medical Pharma, Swine influenza, Neuraminidase inhibitors, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Oseltamivir, Zanamivir, Animal virology, Epidemics, Health in the United States, Pulmonology, flu pandemic in the United States by state, Health in the United Kingdom, Antiviral drug, Influenza vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline, Social Issues, Guanidines, flu pandemic in the United Kingdom, flu pandemic in Malaysia, Epidemiology, Vaccines, Influenza pandemic
Australia helps Burma in fighting HIV/AIDS
Yangon :: Myanmar | 8 days ago
Credibility Australia will provide $ 3 million to Burma, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea as part of its effort to help reduce the spread of HIV in Asia-Pacific region. The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in a statement on World Aids Day on...
Tags: world aids day, world aids, aids, hiv, hiv/aids, Burma, Myanmar, Yangon, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, Social Issues, Health in Burma, HIV/AIDS in Burma, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Myanma kyat, Global health, World Health Organization, Aung San, Phyu Phyu Thin, Tuberculosis, Economy of Burma, Currency, United States dollar, Exchange rate, Business Finance, AusAID, HIV/AIDS in El Salvador, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria
3DF studies options for new projects – Thomas Kean
Yangon :: Myanmar | 9 days ago
Credibility THE Three Diseases Fund will undertake a “scoping study” in the coming weeks to identify areas donors can contribute to when the present project cycle is completed in 2011. The decision comes after the Global Fund board approved all three of Myanmar’s...
Tags: Myanmar Country Coordination Mechanism, global funding, diseases funding, Myanmar, Yangon, Burma, World Health Organization, Global health, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Business Finance, Tuberculosis, International nongovernmental organizations
Copenhagen Summit
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The journal asks “Can it really save us from climate catastrophe?” Yes, it can. If it is like any other early Japanese sci-fi movie where hundreds of people are seen running away from a model made out to be a real monster! Only in this case the model...
Tags: Los Angeles, Environment, Politics, Carbon finance, Climate change, United Nations Environment Programme, Marxism, Copenhagen Climate Council, Environmentalism, World Health Organization, Copenhagen, Global warming, United Nations Environment Organization, Global warming controversy, V2G, Action on climate change
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