Picture boards speak in health crisis
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With more ill and injured people unable to speak English, hospitals, clinics and rescue squads are turning to picture boards to bridge the communication gap with easily understood images.
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A media exhibit featuring a campaign for a fake drug to treat a fictitious illness is causing a stir because some people think the illness is real.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to \
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The United Nations warns of food shortages. Hospitals refuse all non-emergency care to avoid running out of medicine. Power outages are widespread, and a lack of fuel for generators threatens water supplies.
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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The World Health Organization meeting is being held in response to recent reports of deadly strains of tuberculosis.
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Picture taken on Sept. 13, 2004 shows the opening of the 55th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in Shanghai.
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Average citizens need to prepare for the influenza pandemic that public health officials have been warning is overdue, New Jersey's top health officials said Tuesday in announcing a public awareness campaign.
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The flu vaccine shortage that&#39;s stirred worries here and abroad could look mild compared to another public health crisis that might be waiting in the wings.
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As technologically advanced as our country is today, it&#39;s both frustrating and heartbreaking that millions of Americans of all ages and across all social, cultural and ethnic groups are still battling life-threatening and debilitating diseases.
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The local medical community is in a quandary over how to handle demand for flu shots after British health officials pulled the license of the maker of half the US vaccine supply and suspended shipments of its product.
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National studies have found that more than 90 million Americans are unable to adequately understand basic health information.
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New rules to help the United Nations  contain public health emergencies took effect on Friday,  requiring countries to disclose potential threats from disease,  chemical agents, radioactive materials and contaminated food.
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Emergency room doctors warned of a  "perfect storm" in hospitals due to a flu vaccine crisis on  Monday, and politicians watched anxious Americans line up for  shots and argued about whose fault it was.
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Reader Richa Agarwal sends us a picture.