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African government forced to choose which diseases it can afford to treat

The African country of Rwanda continues to experience an increase in the number of deaths arising from communicable and non-communicable diseases, ... Read More »

WHO: poor countries need cheaper drugs

Can pharmaceutical drug companies make HIV drugs cheaper and more available to poorer countries where AIDS is reaching higher levels? That is the ... Read More »

39 new diseases discovered in the last generation, and counting

New diseases are popping up all the time, and although most remain somewhat obscure and unknown others spread rapidly and quickly become widely known ... Read More »

WHO wants global smoking ban at work and in public places

The tobacco industry continues to take a beating, as the World Health Organization (WHO) now is stating that it wants a global ban on smoking at ... Read More »

Dry cleaning chemicals: safe or not?

The "dry" part of dry cleaning is a little misleading. When clothes are dry cleaned, they're actually being cleaned in chemicals...chemicals that the ... Read More »

Will NYC be the next to ban ultra-skinny models?

First New York bans trans fats, now bone thin runway models? Maybe. This week NYC council member Gail Brewer proposed creating a minimum BMI of 18.5 ... Read More »

Hospitals focus on clean hands to save lives

The United Nations agency recently estimated that as many as 1.4 million people around the world, at any given moment, are sick from illnesses they ... Read More »

Bird Flu expert becomes top U.N Health Official

A bird flu expert from China will soon become the most powerful health official in the world. Dr. Margaret Chan was selected yesterday as he world's ... Read More »