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China faces growing demand for mental health care in the aftermath of last month’s devastating earthquake, which killed at least 70,000 people and left millions homeless, the World Health Organization said Friday.Medical services initially focused on...
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The global economic crisis is likely to cause an upsurge in suicides and mental illness as people struggle to cope with losing their homes or livelihoods, the World...
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The U.N. health agency says at least three in four mental health patients in developing countries receive no treatment.
made popular Oct 9 2008
The beautiful valley of Swat, in the northern part of NWFP (Pakistan), is being plagued now a day by multiple problems. Subject to the trials of terrorism, now the...
made popular Oct 7 2008
The WHO said the Philippine government should regulate the continuous “sale” of kidneys and other organs for transplants, noting that the rise in inflation...
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Arkansas’ governor needs a name tag.
made popular Sep 26 2008
The latest official AIDS epidemic update report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) is dated December...
made popular Sep 23 2008
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The World Health Organization halved its estimate of the number of people who get malaria each year, saying Thursday that better measurement techniques had cut the...
made popular Sep 18 2008
According to a recent research by the World Health Organization, noise pollution has been found to be one of triggers leading to heart disease. Are you aware that in...
made popular Sep 10 2008
According to a WHO report, nearly 10 percent of drugs worldwide are counterfeit and in some countries, more than 50 percent of the drug-supply is made up counterfeit...
made popular Sep 10 2008
AIDS, the killer disease that has orphaned millions of kids and widowed thousands of women may not be a global epidemic as once predicted, according to a WHO expert. ...
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SRI LANKA-The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for greater social equality as a way of evening out differences in health, both...
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Key figures in Pakistan’s transition to new president:
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Charges have been filed against 19 Guantanamo prisoners, in addition to Salim Hamdan, who was convicted by a jury Wednesday, and David Hicks, who pleaded guilty in...
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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...
made popular Jul 28 2008
For the past one week Beijing hasn’t seen a clear sunny day. Hazy skies and high pollution levels has put the host city of Olympics 2008 on high alert. Drastic...
made popular Jul 28 2008
Consider this number: 10 million. That’s how many cases of cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year. Now consider this number: 15 million. That’s how many...
made popular Jul 27 2008
With all its fun and frolic Beijing is all ready to start 2008 Olympics. The world is waiting impatiently for the glorious night of light and delight. But in the midst...
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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...
made popular Jul 2 2008
This is not a matter to laugh at it simply is related with a modern world’s latest tragedy the May 12’s earthquake in Sichuan - China. According to the...
made popular Jun 20 2008
I would usually try to say something witty. Something clever or penetrating. This topic is just a little too serious for my usual intellectual flippancy.
I do not...
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The World Health Organization halved its estimate of the number of people who get malaria each year, saying Thursday that better measurement techniques had cut the...
made popular Sep 18 2008
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The World Health Organization urged Asian countries on Monday to take action against the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis, warning that even more virulent...
made popular Jul 21 2008
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The World Health Organization urged Asian countries on Monday to take action against the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis, warning that even more virulent...
made popular Jul 21 2008
AP, Islamabad
An eight-month-old Pakistani girl has tested positive for polio in an area where militants campaigned against vaccination, a World Health Organization official said...
made popular Jul 17 2008
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A new test to quickly diagnose drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis will be rolled out in four African countries this year, the World Health Organization said...
made popular Jun 30 2008
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The World Health Organization predicted on Tuesday a devastating parasitic infection known as elephantiasis could be eliminated by 2015.Mosquito-borne lymphatic...
made popular Apr 1 2008
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Dozens of Gaza residents have died waiting for medical treatment because of delays in obtaining permits to enter Israel, combined with a crumbling health system in...
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The World Health Organization claims polio transmission has been stopped in Somalia, leaving only a dozen other countries with the deadly disease.But given the lack of...
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Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in report issued Tuesday.The rate of TB...
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The conditions of women in today’s economically-oriented Chinese society can be accessed in two different ways. In the first way, one could meet with successful...
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The risks of bird flu epidemic remain. Its transmission among humans is still being examined as a new transmission finding was alarming. Recently, a Chinese man had...
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In terms of statistic, global abortion numbers have dipped a bit from 46 million in 1995 to 42 million in 2003 but the rate of unsafe abortions remains high, especially...
made popular Oct 14 2007
# The World Health Organization estimates that 4.8 million people a year with moderate to severe cancer pain do not receive appropriate treatment nor do another 1.4...
made popular Oct 10 2007
Every year more than 1.2 million people die in road crashes around the world. This is an estimate given by World Health Organization (WHO). Millions of people are...
made popular Aug 29 2007
Popular for being the Hollywood diet, or the so-called ‘fad diet,’ the grapefruit though is known to reduce insulin levels, affecting blood sugar...
made popular Jul 23 2007
Neuroscientists in a recent report have said that moderate drinking has a positive effect on the mental health of a person. Moderate consumption, is frequently defined...
made popular Jul 17 2007
Female circumcision is a ‘rite of passage’ for young girls from childhood to adulthood. This cruel practice involves the removal of the clitoris and other...
made popular Jul 13 2007
The word HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus — itself sends a shiver down the spine. This condition in humans, which slowly destroys the immune system of a...
made popular Jun 29 2007
In US alone, astonishingly there were a total of 553,400 cancer deaths in 2001, according to the American Cancer Society.
But, this scary figure was only to rise...
made popular Jun 26 2007
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