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• Seven Bowls of Wrath: the ecological relevance of Revelation

  - 2008-06-22

  Abstract Catastrophic effects of climate change invite comparisons with the "plagues" or wounds of the earth described in chapters 15 and 16 of the Book of Revelation. The seven Bowls of Wrath can be interpreted as an ecological parable for the decades ahead, as the impact of several centuries...

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• Bush designates Leavitt to attend WHO meeting

  - 2008-05-18

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush has designated Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, Utah's former governor, as part of the U.S. delegation to attend the 61st World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization this week in Geneva, Switzerland. Leavitt and other participants will discuss everything from pandemic...

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• World Health Organization: World Health Statistics 2007

  - 2008-05-01

  World Health Organization: World Health Statistics 2007. Geneva: no date. 86 pp. World Health Statistics 2007 is a selection of country-specific health data held in the various databases of WHO. It covers the seven broad topics of mortality, morbidity, health service coverage, risk factors, health systems, inequality in health,...

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• Climate change will increase dengue cases in Philippines: WHO

  - 2008-04-01

  MANILA AFP — Climate change will cause an increase in dengue fever and other infectious diseases in the Philippines, a World Health Organization WHO official warned Tuesday. "What we can see is that the expected climate change is likely to increase the risks of dengue for many millions of...

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• Lilly Grants US$4.4 Million to the WHO for MDR-TB Program Expansion.

  - 2008-03-12

  INDIANAPOLIS and LONDON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Eli Lilly and Company announced its four-year grant of US$4,384,000 to the World Health Organization WHO for scaling up its global capacity to manage multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) programs. The grant covers four...

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• The profession of dental hygiene in Bahrain: a dental hygiene educator working and living in the Kingdom of Bahrain

  - 2008-03-01

  Bahrain is a small island, approximately 15 miles wide and 35 miles long, located 13 miles off the east coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. This small kingdom has rich history dating back thousands of years. It housed the Dilmun civilization, which was part of the Bronze Age...

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• Asia faces trillion dollar TB-fighting bill

  - 2007-12-15

  WASHINGTON AFP — Eleven Asian nations facing the biggest threat from tuberculosis risk being saddled with a whopping trillion dollar economic burden over the next 10 years if they do not beef up their anti-TB strategy, a landmark study shows. Led by China and India, the countries are already...

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• Reproductive health in the African region: what has been done to improve the situation?

  - 2007-12-01

  Africa accounts for about one tenth of the world's population and 20 per cent of global births; yet, nearly half of the mothers who die during pregnancy and childbirth are from this region. The World Health Organization WHO estimates that poor reproductive health accounts for up to 18 per cent...

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• Current Efforts to Control Outbreaks of Drug-Resistant TB are Failing, Say Advocates.

  - 2007-11-08

  CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - Groups Convene in Cape Town to Explore New Approaches to Managing TB in Regions with High HIV Rates Current approaches to diagnosing and treating tuberculosis are ineffective and do not reach the majority...

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• BD and FIND Help Address Emergence of XDR-TB With New Pricing Agreement for Liquid Culture System.

  - 2007-11-05

  CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- - Response to recommendations by WHO for use of TB liquid culture in low- income settings BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, and FIND (Foundation for...

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