WFP urged the international community to redouble its efforts in support of the agency's recently upscaled life-saving operation in the conflict-torn Central African Republic.
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Developing countries led by Indonesia demanded a fair deal for providing samples of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus that drug companies use to make vaccines.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A man molests a young woman sitting next to him on a Japanese train, drags her to a restroom and rapes her while she sobs. Some 40 fellow passengers fail to intervene.
Legislation to reauthorize the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration should provide states with more flexibility in the use of grants awarded by the agency to improve substance abuse and mental health treatment, witnesses testified on Thursday at a Senate Health, Education, Labo
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The Dublin High Court on Wednesday ruled that a 17-year-old girl who is 18 weeks' pregnant with a fetus that would not live more than three days after delivery could travel to the United Kingdom to undergo an abortion, the Irish Times reports (Carolan/O'Brien, Irish Times, 5/10). According to the
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The off-label and untested use of drug-coated stents in the treatment of coronary artery blockage is common in U.S. practice, and ischemic complication rates are higher among patients receiving drug-coated stents for off-label indications, according to two studies in JAMA.Stents are tiny mesh tubes
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Weill Cornell Medical College study published in the current issue of European Journal of Epidemiology, the paper finds that the framing of the research question, identification of the problem, as well as the design and methodology of the study are all subject to value judgments by investigators.
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The Indonesian Health Minister says her country has resumed sharing samples of the H5N1 bird flu virus with the World Health Organisation (WHO) after a five-month gap.
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