World Health Leaders Call for New Research Goals
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Global health leaders meeting in Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make those now on the market available to the poor.
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The world's leading drug companies have promised to publish more data about clinical trials into new medicines to reassure the public about their safety.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 25 -- The United Nations' AIDS agency on Tuesday called for the world to quadruple its spending on the disease in order to reach the U.N. goal of providing universal access to effective treatment by 2010.
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The World Health Organization (news - web sites) (WHO) on Thursday pressed drug makers to accelerate work on a vaccine against a dreaded influenza pandemic which could kill millions of people.
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Nations need to develop a model vaccine now for global outbreak, world health agency says. LONDON -- With the right coordination, international commitment and $13 million, scientists could deliver within a
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease, a research group of more than 100 scholars and experts said in a report released today.
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International health experts called on Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to new cervical cancer vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million lives a year.
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Millions more health workers are needed if global health is going to be improved over the next decade, a study says.
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The upcoming Group of Eight summit is a prime opportunity for world leaders to show they are seriously committed to fighting the spread of infectious diseases, the acting head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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SHANGHAI, China Sept. 14, 2004 - More countries need to enact preventative measures and boost preparedness for a possible renewed outbreak of SARS or avian flu among humans, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday.
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With the rates of women and girls living with HIV steadily increasing worldwide, global health, development, and corporate leaders urged policymakers and program administrators to turn the tide against global AIDS by moving beyond the current prevention
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Group of Eight leaders called Sunday for more AIDS funding to improve monitoring and to give more people access to treatment.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on  Thursday pressed drug makers to accelerate work on a vaccine  against a dreaded influenza pandemic which could kill millions  of people.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Wednesday for a new drive to stamp out polio, saying it was probably now or never for ridding the world of the paralyzing disease that attacks mainly children.
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The World Health Organization is urging Southeast Asian nations to strengthen curbs on tobacco trade. Shigeru Omi, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, told a conference of the Association of
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Amid warnings of new infectious disease outbreaks, delegates to the World Health Organization&#39;s regional conference were discussing Tuesday ways to improve strategies for dealing with SARS, avian influenza and threats to food safety
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The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit meeting next week for flu vaccine-makers and nations to expand plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.