Tag Archives: World Health Organization

European alcohol, smoking and obesity rates are ‘alarming’ says WHO

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Sarah Smith

The United States is often branded the fattest country in the world (technically true depending on which statistics are used), however Europe is doing its best to take over this unwanted mantle from America, with “alarming” rates of drinking, eating … Continue reading →

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Ireland to join Australia in having plain cigarette packets

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Steve Walker

‘Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship’ is the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day according to the World Health Organization (WHO) – a specialised United Nations agency responsible for monitoring public health and also the pioneers of other … Continue reading →

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Swiss Professor creates a basic machine to detect fake drugs

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Mark Riley

Associate professor Serge Rudaz of Geneva University’s School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Switzerland may have helped to ease the worldwide problem of dangerous counterfeit drugs after developing an inexpensive machine that can identify diminished or fake medicines. Keen readers of … Continue reading →

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Calls for a global treaty to clamp down on counterfeit drugs

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Steve Walker

Experts are calling for the introduction of a global treaty to fight the growing problem of trading in potentially fatal counterfeit medicines, of which some of the risks we have previously described back in February . The demands might have … Continue reading →

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UK health officials diagnose potentially fatal SARS-like virus

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Steve Walker

A 49-year-old Qatari male is currently being treated at a London-based hospital after contracting a new respiratory virus that is quite similar to that which claimed the lives of roughly 800 people back in 2003. The man was transferred to … Continue reading →

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