Health
UN expert: Junk food is a human rights concern
A U.N. expert says junk food is a human rights concern.
Oct 25, 2016
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News tagged with global trade
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dengue fever is making inroads in Europe
Cases of the mosquito-borne illness dengue are typically seen in the tropics, but with the changing climate that may be changing.
Apr 14, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Preventing the next pandemic
Thus far, COVID-19 has cost at least $2.6 trillion and may cost ten times this amount. It is the largest global pandemic in 100 years. Six months after emerging, it has killed over 600,000 people and is having a major impact ...
Jul 23, 2020
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Health
Developing universal standards for health-care data
(Medical Xpress) -- The Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics at the University of Arkansas has released a decision-support tool to help hospitals understand and adopt universal standards for identifying materials, ...
Jan 9, 2012
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Medical economics
Waiver war at WTO over Covid jab IP rights
The World Trade Organization faces calls led by India and South Africa to waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines—a notion fiercely rejected by pharmaceutical giants and their host countries.
Mar 1, 2021
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Vaccination
Supply chain strain threatening COVID vaccine mass scale-up
The unprecedented scaling-up of vaccine manufacturing to counter COVID-19 has sparked dangerous shortages in the supply chain, global players acknowledged Tuesday after brainstorming how to speed up production of the jabs.
Mar 10, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Shanghai tightens lockdown despite falling COVID cases
Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of strict lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
May 9, 2022
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Medical economics
Sharing vaccine intellectual property with global community could save millions of lives
If pharmaceutical companies shared their intellectual property rights to vaccines with the global community, millions of lives could be saved in future pandemics, according to a new paper co-authored by faculty at Binghamton ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Health
Clean indoor air would do more than help us fight COVID, it would help us concentrate
Sometimes the best things you can do are invisible.
Feb 8, 2022
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Health
135 states agree anti-tobacco trafficking deal: WHO
Negotiators from 135 nations sealed Wednesday a global deal to stem the illegal tobacco trade that could net governments $50 billion more annually in tax revenues, the World Health Organisation said.
Apr 4, 2012
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