State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
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The battle is won, but who won the war?
Hiroshi Nakajima has been re elected director of the World Health Organisation. But the road ahead promises to be bumpy for the controversial Japanese civil servant.
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Dhaka to give drug policy a free market dose
Under pressure from transnationals, the Bangladesh government is likely to ease restrictions on producing and importing medicines.
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The state of Bangladesh's health care
A visit to a Dhaka clinic provides a good idea of the extent to which drugs can help.
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Some drugs are more essential than others
If pharmaceutical companies concentrate on manufacturing and selling essential drugs, business needs and health requirements can be met.
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Gruelling days ahead at WHO for Nakajima
Allegations of financial irregularities are likely to be highlighted at a crucial session scheduled shortly in Geneva.
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Selling diarrhoea
NESTLE seems to have perfected the fine art of profiting at another's expense. Its infant food substitutes have been a known cause of diarrhoea and death among year-old babies. Now, the company
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Behavioural changes is the way to curb AIDS
Doctors and social workers advocate awareness as the best way to prevent AIDS, a disease that has no vaccine or cure, from spreading.
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Causing cancer
THYROID cancer has started appearing sooner and spreading faster than expected among children exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April,
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Steroid fix
THE SUPREME Court has exempted the sale of steroid-antihistamine drug combinations for treatment of asthma from a ban until the next hearing in August. In 1981, the Drug Technical Advisory Board had
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News 360 - Brief
nuclear energy Private players? Private players may soon be allowed entry into nuclear energy production. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said as much minutes before he went in to deliberate on the draft Integrated Energy Policy with the plan panel. The law will, however, have to be amended to allow the private sector to set up nuclear plants, he added.