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WHO calls in Paris for a Climate Agreement that benefits Health

Paris, Dec 5 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) called on the UN conference on climate for achieving a new binding climate agreement that takes into account among its purposes, the benefits to global public health. Representatives and experts…

Vaccines: the inside story

Dear Parents You Are Being Lied To: You Won’t Hear This From The Mainstream Media “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians…

South Africa and Aids-HIV: public health sector rolling out free ARVS

South Africa- 1 December is World Aids day. As a result of such days emphasising the problem and the ensuing campaigns that are related to the issue South Africa has come a long way regarding this struggle and the fight against…

Turkish hospitals are being converted into war zones

IPPNW Vice-President Dr. Angelika Claussen reports from Turkey. With elections approaching, a 15-member delegation including politicians, journalists, doctors, human rights campaigners and trade-union officials from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands visited the cities Diyarbarkir, Cizre, Nusaybin, Silvan and Mardin in…

Case report: a debilitating case of austeritis in a 67 year-old institution

By Ben Bouquet 28 October 2015, for OpenDemocracy: Our NHS [UK’s National Health Service] The NHS is under attack from its own malfunctioning defence systems misguided by ideological pathogens. We need to change the treatment. I would like to bring…

Russia’s entry into Syria worsens killings of medical workers on war’s front lines

As global talks on Syria take place in Vienna, we look at the dangers to medical workers on the front lines of the world’s deadliest conflict. Nearly 700 medical personnel have been killed in Syria since the war erupted in…

You can grow new brain cells. Here’s how

Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she offers research and practical advice on how we can help our brains better perform neurogenesis—improving mood, increasing memory formation and preventing the decline associated…

TPP is “Worst Trade Agreement” for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage. UNITED NATIONS, Oct 7 2015 (IPS) – “The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries,” said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement…

Near-total meltdown of Fukushima reactor 2 confirmed

Researchers say between 70 and 100 percent of fuel inside reactor 2 melted during 2011 disaster by Nadia Prupis, staff writer for Common Dreams At least 70 percent of nuclear fuel inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi…

Reaching shared meaning for peace

Peace is a necessary condition for global realization of the right to health. Our paper, The Right to Life in Peace: An Essential Condition for Realizing the Right to Health published in June 2015 by the Health and Human Rights…

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