All posts tagged "WHO"
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The scourge of diabetes: Children are not getting key health checks
The world over, diabetes is spreading at exponential rates. Diabetes is one of the most potent symbols of...
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Rio Olympics receive thumbs up from the WHO amidst Zika fears
The world is past the moment of no return as far as the 2016 Rio Olympics is concerned,...
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Rio Olympics 2016, or how not to deal with a deadly zika pandemic
For the uninitiated, Plague Inc. is a funereally unsettling yet addictive disease simulator game where the player tries...
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How Climate Change will Impact Global Health in Future
The relatively small but committed bunch of environmentalists who have been desperately trying to make humanity, particularly the...
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It’s Official, the Zika Virus is Linked to Birth Defects
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have set all doubts to rest regarding the links between the...
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TB ranks alongside HIV as a leading cause of death worldwide, WHO says
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that while the fight against tuberculosis has met with great success,...
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WHO: Processed meat is carcinogenic to humans; red meat probably carcinogenic
The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified processed meat as carcinogenic to humans and...
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Some red and processed meat could be classified as carcinogenic in WHO report
It is highly likely that a report to be released tomorrow by The World Health Organization (WHO) may...
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It has been a year since a polio case was reported in Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that it has been a year since a case of wild...
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GSK’s malaria candidate vaccine Mosquirix garners EMA’s nod
One of world’s leading pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) revealed that its malaria candidate vaccine Mosquirix also known as...