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Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80 percent, the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency said on Tuesday.
The review of 11 studies worldwide showed people...
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Outbreaks of measles in developing countries may be reduced by vaccinating infants at 4.5 months of age as well as at the World Health Organization’s recommended...
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The world still faces a substantial threat of a flu pandemic and countries need to speed up preparations for a global outbreak, health experts said Tuesday.”We...
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Joseph Goebbels told and probably taught the world in the most effective manner that if you repeat a lie a hundred times then people will start believing it as the...
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The World Health Organization lashed out at Israel on Tuesday for denying or delaying travel permits for critically-ill Gazans, saying the right to health appeared to...
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Two U.S. Cabinet secretaries came courting Monday at a Kremlin in transition from the leadership of President Vladimir Putin to that of his hand-picked successor,...
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If you are looking at smokeless tobacco as safer alternative to smoking then you are keeping yourself in the dark, claims a new study after analyzing data from six...
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