Scale up the global fight against tuberculosis
Ten years ago the World Health Organization declared a global emergency to battle the resurgent epidemic of tuberculosis. The interway in coping with the crisis, but
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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6 tons of turtles seized in a shipment for China
Customs officials at Hanoi's Noi Bai international airport said they had discovered six tons of turtles smuggled into Vietnam aboard a Thai Airways flight from Malaysia. China, where eating turtles
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In rural part of Bangladesh, an ideal lab
Roushan Ara will go unnoted in the formal annals of public health, but let history record that she did her part. A homemaker and mother of three, she is also a warrior against diarrhea, a leading
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Novartis targets hepatitis remedies
Novartis AG said that it would buy a majority stake in Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc., a closely held U.S. company, and jointly develop potential drugs for hepatitis C, hoping to break into a lucrative
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Flooding washes away homes and kills 14
Heavy floods in Afghanistan have killed at least 14 people and washed away hundreds of houses, the United Nations said. Kunduz Province in the northeast has taken the brunt of the floods, caused by
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Smoking curb enacted
After two years of legislative gridlock, New York has become only the third state to pass a tough anti-smoking law that would ban smoking law that would ban smoking in nearly every restaurant, bar
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AIDS funding and politics
Throughout the Bush administration, programs to protect the health of women and young people have been sacrificed to the far right's agenda. Effective safer-sex programs in America and abroad, and
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China, finally gets to grips with SARS epidemic
Ward Three on the 16th floor of the Zhongshan No 2 Hospital has the feel of a place abandoned in fear and in a hurry. In February Ward Three, this hospital's center for treating SARS, the deadly form
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More limits on vaccine urged
Three days after the U.S. government suspended smallpox vaccinations for people known to have heart disease, a panel of medical advisers recommended that people who have three or more major risk
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Why epidemic still surprise us
At Novena Squre in central Singapore