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thestar.com | 19 hours ago

Porter: Too many moms can't find help needed to breastfeed

...1,500 first-time mothers and found 39 per cent left the hospital with free infant formula aEUR" despite the World Health Organization, Health Canada, the Canadian Paediatric Society all...

The Japan Times: All Stories | 1 day ago

Let the clean water flow

...the incumbent official utility." Country surveys suggest that the situation has changed little since then. The World Health Organization, like activists, disregards these "informal"...

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Reuters | 1 day ago

UPDATE 1-Cuba gets H1N1 vaccines, Africa to follow -- WHO

...12-14 (Updates with Cuba delivery; edits) By Stephanie Nebehay The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday it had delivered the first doses of H1N1 vaccine to Cuba, and a...

Reuters | 1 day ago

African states set to receive H1N1 vaccine soon-WHO

...Africa * Experts to examine WHO handling of pandemic April 12-14 The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday it would deliver millions of H1N1 vaccine doses to about a dozen...

"The big question is, what will happen when the foreign medical aid groups leave," says Nyka Alexander, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization. Ariel Henry, chief of staff for Haiti's Health Ministry, said the country is "open to all contributions"

Haiti Looks Past Foreign Health Aid Wall Street Journal | 2 days ago

Telegraph.co.uk - Health | 1 day ago

Sudanese guinea worm on the point of eradication. What next?

...in 2009. In the next two years medical workers are aiming for zero. It's not just a Sudanese success story. The World Health Organisation reports that cases have been cut in the...

L.A. Times - National News | 1 day ago

TB rate down in U.S., but drug-resistant cases rise elsewhere

The CDC says tuberculosis prevalence dropped 11.8% last year, as the World Health Organization reports about 440,000 multi-drug-resistant cases worldwide in 2008, a third of them fatal.

Chicago Tribune | 1 day ago

TB rate down in U.S.; resistant cases rise elsewhere

...drug-resistant cases rise elsewhere The CDC says tuberculosis prevalence dropped 11.8% last year, as the World Health Organization reports about 440,000 multi-drug-resistant cases...

Reuters | 2 days ago

Study finds H1N1 flu in pregnancy is critical risk

...women are at higher risk of serious complications if they get the flu. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared last June that the new H1N1 virus was causing the first influenza...

Reuters | 2 days ago

New collaboration aims to speed TB drugs to market

...do not always take the drugs as directed, multiple drug-resistant strains called MDR-TB have emerged. The World Health Organization reported that MDR-TB killed 150,000 people in 2008...

AP Online | 2 days ago

WHO: Not sure if drug-resistant TB is worsening

LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization says it doesn't have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis. In a new report on the global...

Forbes.com | 1 week ago

Mass Murder

...foundations and health agencies still pander to these lethal prejudices. Nearly four years ago the UN's World Health Organization reversed itself and endorsed the use of DDT in...