News tagged with world economic forum


Experts urge action on global obesity 'pandemic'

Obesity has become a global pandemic that could leave more than half of all adults worldwide overweight within two decades, experts said, calling for urgent action beyond just blaming people for lacking willpower.

Overweight and Obesity created Jan 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

UN wants better family planning

(AP)—The U.N.'s top population official wants governments to do more to ensure that women have access to family planning.

Health created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel approaches needed to end growing scourge of 'superbugs'

With the rising awareness of the so-called "superbugs," bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts writing in the Jan. 24 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine called ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Davos 2013 to focus on health issues

The World Economic Forum will focus on global health issues when it holds its annual winter meeting in Davos, Switzerland from January 23-27, Forum organisers said on Thursday.

Health created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gender equality influences how people choose their partners

Men and women clearly have different strategies for picking sexual partners, but the reason why differences exist is less clear. The classic explanation for these differences has been that men's and women's brains have evolved ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gates injects $750M in troubled Global Fund

(AP) -- Bill Gates pledged $750 million on Thursday to fight three killer diseases and rescue a beleaguered health fund whose financial losses have cost it donor support.

Other created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0