Geneva - States are falling behind on their commitments to clear landmines and provide adequate assistance to victims, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday. The international treaty prohibiting anti-personnel mines, known as the O...
April 3rd, 2009 | Health | Comments Off
Luebeck, Germany - Two German students who fell into a coma after drinking what appeared to be tainted alcohol in Turkey were fighting for their lives in a German hospital on Friday. The students were flown home on Thursday evening and taken to the i...
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Beijing - Ministers from 27 nations have backed a 15-billion-dollar plan to provide universal access to diagnosis and treatment of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) by 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday. The ministers agre...
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Hong Kong - One form of fatal strokes is more likely to affect people in winter than the summer, a team of Hong Kong medical experts said Friday. Neurologists found a far higher incidence of strokes caused by aneurismal subarachnoid haemorrhage, a ru...
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New York - A New York-based human rights group on Thursday urged the United Nations to declare April as Genocide Prevention Month. Six genocides - Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Armenia, the Holocaust and Darfur have significant anniversaries in April. W...
April 2nd, 2009 | Health | Comments Off