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Changing the four major contributors to ill health—tobacco use, inadequate diet, physical inactivity and alcohol consumption—could prevent millions of unnecessary deaths in the next decade, particularly in low and median income countries. (Text available only in Spanish) |
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 The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that the emergence of artemisinin resistant parasites at the Thai-Cambodia border could seriously undermine global malaria control efforts achieved. Surveillance systems and research studies are providing new evidence that parasites resistant to artemisinin have emerged.
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 Establishing healthy habits early in life—particularly eating well and being active—is critical to lowering cancer rates in adulthood, experts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said today in observance of World Cancer Day 2009.
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The regular use of safety belts in this Central American country has risen from 24% to 82% of all drivers. Press reports reveal that stops of impaired motorists in January 2009 fell 54% in comparison with the number of stops registered in January of 2008, under an old traffic code. |
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 Efforts to prevent, control and eliminate "forgotten" tropical and other infectious diseases in the Americas received a new stimulus with the announcement of a $34 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases. The announcement came last Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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