Experts in Thailand to tackle cancer crisis in developing countries
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The world's leading cancer experts have begun laying the groundwork in Bangkok for the development of a regional training network to fight the growing cancer crisis in Asia.
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A team of Korean scientists have found a way to solve the cancer paradox of why aging cells with reduced ability to proliferate are susceptible to cancer, characterized by uncontrolled cell growth.
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Thailand is still talking to three major drug firms about cutting the price of certain cancer drugs but might make the medicines itself if it does not receive adequate discounts, a top health official said on Tuesday.
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Buddhists cry for help as Thaksin visits the volatile, mostly Muslim region of southern Thailand. As Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra visits the troubled southern region of Thailand, more than 100 Thai
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Cancer experts say 'world first' will lead to less aggressive therapies for sick children
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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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The rules controlling the trade in many animal and plant species may change as delegates from around the world meet in Thailand.
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Scientists from about 150 countries have started work on an action plan to save lives during disasters through planning and warnings amid the shock over the Asian tsunami catastrophe.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 28 (IPS) - The European Union's top trade official has  called on Thailand to revise its efforts to provide cheap  medicines to people with AIDS over concerns that the country  could be undermining global rules on intellectual property.
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Health agencies on Thursday called for  tackling cervical cancer which has taken on epidemic  proportions in developing countries from Brazil to India due to  a lack of screening.
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Scientists in Dundee hope that gene research will aid efforts to reduce medication for cancer patients.
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SHANGHAI, China Sept. 15, 2004 - With AIDS making disastrous new inroads in the Asian-Pacific region, World Health Organization experts are evaluating progress toward providing anti-AIDS drugs to 3 million
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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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Therapies that target the basic mechanisms of cancer have become the weapons of choice in the fight against the deadly disease, researchers said at a major doctors&#39; conference in the United States.
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Thai researchers have urged people in Southeast Asia to stop eating raw freshwater fish because they risk becoming infected with a parasitic worm that may predispose them to developing liver cancer.
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Health efforts in the developing world should not ignore the growing problem of non-communicable conditions such as cancer and obesity and need culturally appropriate, cheap solutions, an expert said on Thursday.
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TORONTO (CP) - In the wake of yet another avian influenza death in Thailand, the World Health Organization urged countries with flu vaccine production capacity and their manufacturers to speed up work on trial vaccines against the highly deadly H5N1 virus