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African countries to introduce new meningitis vaccine
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:00:00 +0200
4 September 2008 -- Health ministers from the African meningitis belt today committed themselves to introduce a highly promising candidate meningitis vaccine. The vaccine is designed to prevent periodic epidemics of the deadly disease in these countries.
African ministers to defend health from environmental harm
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:00:00 +0200
29 August 2008 -- Health and environment ministers in Africa have resolved to build a strategic alliance to reduce environmental threats to human health and well-being.
Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:00:00 +0200
28 August 2008 -- A girl in Lesotho is likely to live 42 years less than another in Japan. In Sweden, the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy and childbirth is 1 in 17 400; in Afghanistan the odds are 1 in 8. These "social determinants of health" have been the focus of a three-year investigation by an eminent group of policy makers, academics, former heads of state and former ministers of health which has presented its findings to the WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan.
NYT > Health
Judge to Unseal Documents on the Eli Lilly Drug Zyprexa
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:00:58 -0000
A federal judge in Brooklyn decided to unseal confidential materials about Eli Lilly’s top-selling antipsychotic drug, citing questions about the way drugs are approved for new uses.
CNN.com - Health
When sex becomes an addiction
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:31:24 -0400
"Californication" star David Duchovny made headlines for voluntarily entering rehab last week. But it wasn't for drugs or alcohol. It was for another dependency, one that affects millions of Americans but is seldom discussed: sex addiction.
FDA posts list of drugs under investigation
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:20:57 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
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African countries to introduce new meningitis vaccine
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:00:00 +0200
4 September 2008 -- Health ministers from the African meningitis belt today committed themselves to introduce a highly promising candidate meningitis vaccine. The vaccine is designed to prevent periodic epidemics of the deadly disease in these countries.
African ministers to defend health from environmental harm
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:00:00 +0200
29 August 2008 -- Health and environment ministers in Africa have resolved to build a strategic alliance to reduce environmental threats to human health and well-being.
Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:00:00 +0200
28 August 2008 -- A girl in Lesotho is likely to live 42 years less than another in Japan. In Sweden, the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy and childbirth is 1 in 17 400; in Afghanistan the odds are 1 in 8. These "social determinants of health" have been the focus of a three-year investigation by an eminent group of policy makers, academics, former heads of state and former ministers of health which has presented its findings to the WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan.
NYT > Health
Judge to Unseal Documents on the Eli Lilly Drug Zyprexa
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:00:58 -0000
A federal judge in Brooklyn decided to unseal confidential materials about Eli Lilly’s top-selling antipsychotic drug, citing questions about the way drugs are approved for new uses.
CNN.com - Health
When sex becomes an addiction
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:31:24 -0400
"Californication" star David Duchovny made headlines for voluntarily entering rehab last week. But it wasn't for drugs or alcohol. It was for another dependency, one that affects millions of Americans but is seldom discussed: sex addiction.
FDA posts list of drugs under investigation
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:20:57 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
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