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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Jul 17 2011 | News
The head
of the United Nations AIDS program called Sunday for an increase in access to
drugs that help treat or prevent the spread of the disease, saying it is
"morally wrong" to keep millions of people off lifesaving medication.
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Jun 7 2011 | News
LONDON (AP) — An expert at the World Health Organization
says time is running out for German investigators to find the source of the
world's deadliest E. coli outbreak, which has spread fear across Europe and cost farmers millions in exports.
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