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• in Lifestyle
  Universal Flu Vaccine In Development
  Universal flu vaccine in development which will be one-time administration. Current vaccines must be taken annually to account for variation.
  by vicfizzlebottom / on Oct 24, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Promising Experimental Vaccine Reduces Malaria in African Children by Half
  Vaccine Reduces Malaria in African Children by Half.
  by vicfizzlebottom / on Oct 19, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Is Diabetes Here to Stay?
  Is it any surprise that Diabetes has doubled since 1980?
  by tabithap / on Jun 28, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “world health organization”

 

• HIV drug now available as oral powder for children

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The HIV drug Viread will now be available in powder form for HIV positive children after its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a bio-pharmaceutical company said Sunday. The move is expected to benefit millions of HIV positive children.“There remains an unmet need for ...
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• Nuff said

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 122
  (Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes) Concerns about the H5N1 research have again forced scientists and policy makers to think about risks associated with well-intentioned, lawful, and potentially valuable research that might facilitate bioterrorism or result in accidental release or escape. ...
  4 days ago

• Guest Blog: Solar Sister #3

  
  Global Conversations: Climate Blog — Authority: 102
  Solar Sister Energy Access & Health Matters Series: What has women and girl’s health to do with clean energy? Did you know that energy poverty has a female face? Women and girls in villages, small towns and shanty dwellings dispersed across the length and breadth of Asia, Africa and Latin America live with ...
  6 days ago

• The Last Of The Asbestos Miners Of Roro

  
  chai kadai benches — Authority: 412
  by Javed Iqbal When miner Dansingh Bodra was asked about the people from his village who he worked with, in the asbestos mines of Roro, who have all died before their time, he slowly starts counting, first to himself, and then
  1 week ago

• Introducing Johanna Westeson

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 122
  Its our great pleasure to welcome Johanna Westeson (left) as an IntLawGrrls contributor. Johanna is the Regional Director for Europe in the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights , a global legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing womens reproductive health, self-determination, ...
  1 week ago

• Rights-based approach to sex-selection

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 122
  (My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this introductory post) A 28-year-old pregnant woman sat in a doctor’s office in Albania with tears streaming down her face. The doctor had just informed her that she was having a girl. While seemingly good news, for this woman it was a personal ...
  1 week ago

• Polio Vaccines are the Leading Cause of Polio Paralysis

  
  News and Current Events — Authority: 129
  Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer Activist Post The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating polio, stating on ...
  1 week ago

• Higher abortion rates where its illegal

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 135
  Higher abortion rates where its illegal Associated Press read more
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• WHO Says Women With Breast Implant Must Consult Doctor

  
  CRWE NEWS Financial Stock Market Website — Authority: 133
    On Tuesday, for the first time the UN health agency, World Health Organization (WHO), intervened in the one of the most escalated global scandals over faulty breast implants, suggesting women with the breast implants seek medical advice if they have any concerns.Pointing to the French brands implicated in the ...
  1 week ago

• Avian influenza – situation in Cambodia – update (WHO, January 18 2012, edited)

  
  A TIME'S MEMORY — Authority: 434
  [Source: World Health Organization, full page: ( LINK ). Edited.] Avian influenza – situation in Cambodia – update  18 JANUARY 2012 - The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced that the case of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus reported in the Disease Outbreak ...
  1 week ago

• Pesticides lurk in Hong Kong and China produce

  
  The Site for Alamogordo, Holloman AFB & New Mexico — Authority: 111
  Unsafe food causes many acute and life-long diseases, including cancer. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that foodborne and waterborne diarrhoeal diseases kill about 2.2 million people annually, including 1.9 million children. Wherever you may be, you’ll hear news that the meat is tainted by hormone and ...
  1 week ago

• Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Our 5th Birthday

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We hope the weekend was refreshing and relaxing. Now, though, the routine of meetings and deadlines has resumed. We would like to pause, however, to note that today marks our fifth birthday - five years ago today, we launched Pharmalot . And it has been quite a ride. We ...
  1 week ago

• India, Formerly The World’s Epicenter Of Polio, Celebrates A Polio-Free Year

  
  AsianScientist.com | Online News and Information For The Asian Student, Post-Doc and Research Community — Authority: 495
  AsianScientist (Jan. 17, 2012) – India, once recognized as the world’s epicenter of polio, appears to have interrupted wild poliovirus transmission, completing one year without polio since its last case, in a two-year-old girl in the state of West Bengal, on January 13, 2011. The number of polio-endemic ...
  1 week ago

• Tuberculosis that is “resistant to all drugs” (WHO, January 13 2012, edited)

  
  A TIME'S MEMORY — Authority: 434
  [Source: World Health Organization, full page: ( LINK ). Edited.] Tuberculosis that is “resistant to all drugs” Frequently asked questions January 2012 What is “totally drug resistant” tuberculosis (“TDR-TB”)? In 2006, the first reports of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis ...
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• Avian influenza – situation in Cambodia (WHO, January 16 2012, edited)

  
  A TIME'S MEMORY — Authority: 434
  [Source: World Health Organization, full page: ( LINK ). Edited.] Avian influenza – situation in Cambodia 16 January 2012 The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced a confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. The case was a 2 year-old male ...
  1 week ago

• Untreatable Tuberculosis Strain Appears in India

  
  The End of Days — Authority: 92
    A new virulent strain of Tuberculosis that is totally drug resistant has surfaced in India. The lung disease which as been around for decades has long been treatable with patients exhibiting a full recovery. The newly discovered form of the disease is impervious to all current known treatments and dooms to death ...
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• Study: Chinese Herb Dihydromyricetin Stops Hangovers, Alcohol Dependency In Rats

  
  AsianScientist.com | Online News and Information For The Asian Student, Post-Doc and Research Community — Authority: 495
  AsianScientist (Jan. 16, 2012) – UCLA researchers have discovered how an ancient Chinese herbal drug could stop hangovers and reduce alcohol dependency in rats. Led by Associate Professor Jing Liang and Professor Richard W. Olsen of UCLA, the researchers identified how dihydromyricetin, a component isolated from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reason Alcohol is prohibited

  
  Perfect Health — Authority: 110
  Current circulation of alcohol quite freely in society, whereas alcohol can give bad impact to the body. This makes the circulation of alcohol should be banned. World Health Organization (WHO) in 2011 recorded as many as 2.5 million people worldwide die from alcohol and about 9 percent of deaths occur in young people ...
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• India Marks Major Milestone In Global Fight To Eradicate Polio

  
  Health Policy Blog — Authority: 113
  Rukhsar Kahatoon was 18 months old when she was diagnosed with polio exactly one year ago, on January 13, 2011. Today Rukhsar is a healthy 2 1/2 year old living in Howrah, close to Kolkata, West Bengal. She’s also the last recorded case of polio in India. That India, a country which until a few [...]
  2 weeks ago

• India Ink: India Wins the Battle Against Polio

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.nytimes.com/ India Ink: India Wins the Battle Against Polio A new milestone for India, not a single case of polio recorded in the last one year. published date:Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:29:14 GMT
  2 weeks ago

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