Apr 24 | News
LONDON (AP) — The number of measles deaths worldwide has apparently dropped by about three-quarters over a decade, according to a new study by the World Health Organization and others.
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Apr 20 | News
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has asked international health experts to help investigate a mystery illness that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in an impoverished district in central Vietnam, an official said Friday.
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Jan 30 | News
Today the research-based pharmaceutical industry announced donations of 14 billion treatments this decade to support the elimination or control of nine key neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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Jan 19 | News
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has confirmed its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, a day after neighboring Cambodia also logged its first fatality this year as new cases of the H5N1 virus are reported in Asia and the Middle East.
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Jan 16 | News
Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.
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Jan 12 | News
NEW DELHI (AP) — India will celebrate a full year since its last reported case of polio on Friday, a major victory in a global eradication effort that appeared to be stalled just a few years ago.
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Dec 8 2011 | News
Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced today that it will donate 445,000 vials of AmBisome(R) (amphotericin B liposome for injection) over five years to help the World Health Organization (WHO) treat more than 50,000 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar.
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Oct 21 2011 | News
LONDON (AP) — Scientists are warning officials negotiating a global treaty on mercury that banning the deadly chemical completely would be dangerous for public health because of the chemical's use in vaccines.
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Oct 12 2011 | News
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of people with tuberculosis has fallen for the first time.
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Jul 20 2011 | News
The world is not on track to wipe out polio by the end of 2012, a group of independent health experts warned Wednesday.
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