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Irish Forum for Global Health calls for protecting health aid funding

Nov 26, 2010 | Feature Article

(CNS): The Irish Forum for Global Health (IFGH) is concerned at the further cuts to the overseas aid budget in the Gover ...

Within that pill is also your health

Nov 17, 2010 | Feature Article

Within that pill is also your health said Rachel C Orduno who herself completed anti-TB treatment (ATT) years back to ...

Big Tobacco undermines health policy as treaty meetings face similar abuse: Repo...

Nov 17, 2010 | Feature Article

Uruguay proposes resolution calling for unity in face of tobacco industry interference PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY: A new ...

As treaty meetings open, Big Tobacco’s bullying looms

Nov 17, 2010 | Feature Article

Success hinges on treaty financing, limiting industry interference ------------ PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY: A weeklong ...

Outrage against delay in pictorial warnings on tobacco products in India

Jun 29, 2010 | Feature Article

(CNS): In a detractive decision of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GOI), the imp ...

World Environment Day (WED 2010): Smoke-free environment is a right

Jun 5, 2010 | Feature Article

(CNS): Second-hand tobacco smoke is dangerous to health. It causes cancer, heart disease and many other serious life-thr ...

World No Tobacco Day - a critical point in the Year of the Lung

Jun 1, 2010 | Feature Article

(CNS): The World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2010, is a critical point in the 2010: Year of the Lung campaign, according to t ...

UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCD)

May 13, 2010 | Feature Article

(CNS): For the first time ever, the United Nations General Assembly will hold a Non-communicable Disease (NCD) Summit in ...

Victory for access to medicines as Valaganciclovir patent is overturned

May 7, 2010 | Feature Article

Citizen News Service (CNS) (CNS): International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) wel ...

Asthma Drug Facility makes affordable asthma medicines a reality

Mar 4, 2010 | Feature Article

(CNS): This is certainly another milestone in the Year of the Lungs (2010). The cost of treating asthma has dropped by n ...

Five years in, tobacco treaty is saving lives, continues to be stymied by indust...

Mar 1, 2010 | Feature Article

(CNS): Representatives from the 168 ratifying countries of the global tobacco treaty gathered to celebrate the landmark ...

Microbicide trial results signal end of one chapter, focus turns to promising AR...

Dec 14, 2009 | Feature Article

: While acknowledging disappointment in the trial results announced today, the GlobalCampaign for Microbicides note ...

Global Fund approves TB funding for government and civil society led proposal in...

Dec 7, 2009 | Feature Article

A defining moment in the history of tuberculosis control in India A proposal that will launch a massive effort to add ...

Integrated community health services in Timor-Leste

Nov 29, 2009 | Feature Article

After a two hour walk across several hills and through valleys in a mountainous part of Timor-Leste, have Paula and her ...

Spotlight on big surgeries with minimal or no incisions at regional Surgeons' Co...

Nov 6, 2009 | Feature Article

: The three-days regional surgeons' conclave - 35th annual conference of Association of Surgeons of India (ASI), UP ...

Punishing Success in Tackling AIDS: Funders' retreat could wipe out health gains...

Nov 5, 2009 | Feature Article

A retreat from international funding commitments for AIDS threatens to undermine th ...

People in Developing Countries Pay More for Diabetes Care and Have Poorer Health...

Oct 22, 2009 | Feature Article

Type 2 diabetes is often seen as a condition affecting older, unproductive adults in wealthy countries. However, the rea ...

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