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For the first time, the three global institutions dealing with health, intellectual property and trade have pooled their expertise on a study of policies needed to advance medical technologies and ensure they ...
As negotiations on a new Mercury Convention wrap up in Geneva, Richard Fuller presents the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP), a new collaborative body tasked with coordinating resources and activities ...
Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medecin, Tom Koch, The MIT Press, £20.95. Born in the 1960s, bioethics was to bring “a specific kind of analytic, moral philosophy to questions of ...
Photo: During the afternoon plenary with Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson; Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director; Tim Kasten, UNEP; INC Chair Fernando Lugris, Uruguay; Jacob Duer, INC Team Coordinator, UNEP; Masa ...
The fifth and final round of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention opened today in Geneva. The final meeting of the International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5) is taking ...
What is the new game in town? Out of competing theories and views, there tends to emerge a certain winner, a dominant argument that shapes the entire new paradigm. In a world ...
Gilles-Eric Séralini’s research has focused most recently on the health effects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with the controversial results published in September in the scientific journal "Food and Chemical ...
In an interview with The Global Journal at the Economist Conferences NCD Summit held in Geneva on 29 October 2012, Ama de-Graft Aikins discusses NCDs in emerging markets and the need for ...
The Origins of AIDS, Jacques Pépin, Cambridge University Press, €54.90, $85.00. Have you ever wondered how, where and when the global AIDS pandemic started? How it spread to all ...
"The end of AIDS is not free. It is not too expensive. It is priceless." This was the impassioned call of UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé, at the opening of the International ...
Dr. John Coates is a former Wall Street derivatives trader turned neuroscientist. He uses his dual expertise to understand the way individuals contribute to market instability, studying the impact of biology on ...
An HIV patient is being assisted by a care-giver at a clinic in Morogoro, Tanzania - a town with some 206,000 residents, and the capital of the like-named region. She is being ...
New active design practices promoting physical activity and wellbeing are becoming a key strategy for tackling chronic non-communicable diseases caused by sedentary lifestyles. Walking the streets of Manhattan, one cannot fail to ...
What completely preventable disease can kill someone in a matter of hours through dehydration and is caused by contaminated water and food? The answer? Cholera. And it’ is ravaging the Caribbean nation ...
Read the latest features on the 2012 Geneva Health Forum here. It’s becoming an all too familiar notion: tens of thousands of people die, daily, from chronic diseases in low- and ...
Flavia Bustreo and Mario Merialdi both have long experience linked to the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality worldwide. Within the World Health Organization they have already carried out several projects addressing ...
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