World Health Organization
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations.
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YANGON , 8 January 2009 (IRIN) - The Myanmar Ministry of Health, with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO), will immunise more than seven million children against polio.
"About 7.4 million children under-five
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...the microscope. "It's hit or miss. Some people see a big difference after using probiotic products, some not at all," says Bob Greene, a nationally known nutritionist and creator of The Best Life Diet. He says the still-inconclusive research is why he has...
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Tampa Bay Online
...issues, affecting an estimated 400 million people today and an estimated 700 million by 2015, according to the World Health Organization. Obesity is a complex metabolic disorder that is commonly associated with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart...
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...was discovered among Philippine monkeys in the U.S. again in 1990 and 1996, and in Italy in 1992. According to the World Health Organization, African strains kill 50 percent to 90 percent of those infected through lethal bleeding and organ failure. “Since...
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...because the danger is that the mosquito will develop resistance to these chemicals," said Supriya Warusavithana of the World Health Organization (WHO). "The most effective way of preventing the disease is by cutting back mosquito breeding sites." Besides...
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...rights organization Gisha. He said he went seven days without any running water. Meanwhile, the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Gaza's hospitals are running on backup generators for the fifth consecutive day. Some medical centers...
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...-- Nine people have died and 27 others have been hospitalized following a meningitis outbreak in Hoima district in western Uganda, said the Health Ministry. Dr. Sam Zaramba, the ministry's director general of health services, was quoted by the state-owned...
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Xinhua
...Milbourne said. Cervical cancer is the second largest cause of female cancer deaths worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, with 288,000 deaths each year. About 510,000 cases of cervical cancer are reported each year nearly 80 percent are in...
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...Sarah Palin says stupid things, they have the virtue of sounding really dumb. Appropriate derision greeted her insistence that what caused global warming “kind of doesn’t matter at this point … we need to do something about it.” But when the cancer research...
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...of the Philippines, Jan. 8, 2009. A team of international experts is investigating the Ebola Reston virus found in pigs at two farms in the northern Philippines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. (Xinhua/Luis Liwanag) Photo Gallery>>>...
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...a message from China to "compatriots in Taiwan" that called for reunification of the two sides by peaceful means, China's President Hu Jintao said that China was willing to make necessary arrangements to negotiate with Taiwan on increasing its participation...
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... 02 January, 2009 03:51 GMT By Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., Author of The Healthiest Meals on Earth The above is an excerpt from the book The Healthiest Meals on Earth by Johnny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. Published by Fair Winds Press; July 200...
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...Five years after the avian influenza strain H5N1 started killing poultry and people in Southeast Asia, researchers still don't know what to make of the dangerous and unpredictable virus. After cutting an ever-widening swath through poultry flocks and infecting...
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Globe and Mail
...doctors say more lives could be saved if only there were a vaccine. "The disease is increasing everywhere, not just in Southeast Asia. It's a global problem. I think we need the vaccine," Dr. Nimmannitya asserted. The U.S. Army is testing a possible vaccine...
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...the social stigma in Europe that it carries in the U.S. Many famous Europeans -- including the Pope, French soccer star Zinedine Zidane and Britain's Prince Harry -- have been known to puff in private without burning their public image. U.S. President-elect...
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...not under control after infecting nearly 24,000 people, with the death toll approaching 1,200, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today. More >> 23 December 2008 – Sudan’s military and child welfare authorities have partnered with the United...
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...under control after infecting nearly 24,000 people, with the death toll approaching 1,200, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today. More >> 23 December 2008 – Sudan’s military and child welfare authorities have partnered with the United...
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...>> 23 December 2008 – Sudan’s military and child welfare authorities have partnered with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to protect children’s rights and prevent the recruitment of child soldiers in the war-torn African nation. More >> Secretary-General...
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...not under control after infecting nearly 24,000 people, with the death toll approaching 1,200, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today. More >> 23 December 2008 – Sudan’s military and child welfare authorities have partnered with the United...
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...campaign is made possible with the support of Denmark, Japan, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Canadian Committee for UNICEF, USAID and the UN Foundation. Digg, Del.icio.us, and Newsvine are web services enabling you to share stories on the Internet. The...
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...in Zimbabwe infected as drastic shortages of medicines and supplies have closed hospitals in Harare, the capital. The World Health Organization is now estimating that cholera could affect 60,000 Zimbabweans. Direct Relief International has airlifted humanitarian...
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...side effects. That's an important step forward, says Peter Hotez, who studies HAT and other tropical diseases at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Giving two drugs rather than one should help prevent resistance, he says. And because...
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Science
...than in high-income countries in Europe and the Western Pacific such as Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom, which have the lowest rates of child injury. However, the report finds that although many high-income countries...
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Scoop - New Zealand News
...million people will die from it. "This is going to present amazing problems at every level in every society worldwide," IARC's Peter Boyle said at a news conference. There are more deaths in the world from cancer than from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined."...
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To The Center
...fail to do enough about childhood accidents, said Dr. Étienne Krug, director of injuries and violence prevention at the World Health Organization, who oversaw the report. “This is a huge public health problem, and it’s been ignored for a long time,” Dr. Krug...
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The New York Times
...measures to stop preventable accidents that kill hundreds of thousands of children each year. Dr. Etienne Krug of the World Health Organization said 830,000 children die each year of injuries from accidents. One thousand deaths a day could be relatively easily...
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MSNBC
...growing frustration today that the United Nations’ long-standing efforts to promote national reconciliation and democratization in Myanmar have yet to achieve the desired results and he urged the Government to ... More >> The United Nations will convene a...
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...in response to the staggering rise in banditry, which has soared by some 40 per cent in recent months, especially in Port-au-Prince, the capital. MINUSTAH has frequently helped in cracking down on criminal and military gangs since it was set up in 2004 to...
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...tribal peoples, whose rights are routinely violated. The very existence of many tribal peoples is under increasing threat. In Paraguay, the last uncontacted Ayoreo-Totobiegosode are running for their lives as bulldozers rapidly raze their forest. In India,...
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