Disease prevention is main goal of medical agencies
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The World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other international agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking
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The World Health Organization issued new  guidelines on Tuesday on preventing contamination of drinking  water supplies and resultant illnesses.
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Developing countries, especially in Asia, must promote healthy lifestyles from childhood to halt rising obesity and heart disease rates, medical experts said on Thursday.
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Cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease, already common in rich countries, are a growing problem in the developing world, where they are likely to become the main causes of death by 2015, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
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For the first time, the federal government has proposed placing responsibility for preventing food-borne illness on farmers rather than on consumers.
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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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Approximately 10,000 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, were reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003.
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WASHINGTON - Citing statistics that one in 10 hospital patients worldwide are victims of preventable medical mistakes, the World Health Organization on Wednesday launched an initiative to create a âculture of safetyâ in health care.
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MSF said on Tuesday that taking measures to prevent aids was very important, but urged the Swiss government and Swiss non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to do more with regard to treatment.
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Austrlia&#39;s chief medical officer has moved to reassure people vaccinated against polio in the 1950s and &#39;60s they are not at increased risk of cancer.
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National Committee for Quality Assurance&#39;s annual State of Health Care Quality report is the culmination of a year&#39;s worth of measurement and data collection, the goal of which is to help drive improvement by providing as complete a view of health care
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China&#39;s top legislature on Saturday passed the revised version of Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, which requires that the government guarantee funds for infectious disease prevention.
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Preventing the spread of disease in a hospital may be as simple as opening a window, an international team of researchers reported on Monday.
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Preventing disease in a developing and mostly rural country such as Vietnam can sometimes be as simple as frequently washing hands with soap.
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The World Health Organization launched an initiative on Monday to improve medical services for the elderly in a bid to tackle the growing public health implications of a rapidly aging global population.
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Rising trend of early human death cases in recent years in China have sounded alert on how to find effective ways to prevent the widespread sub health problems, which has so
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The campaign, which will promote exercise and healthier diet among Virginians, aims to reduce the rate of chronic illnesses such as obesity and hypertension through diet, exercise and other prevention techniques.