Investigacin: Medicina falsificada contra la malaria circula en Sureste de Asia

Investigadores mdicos informan que una medicina falsificada contra la malaria est circulando por el sureste de Asia, y podra extenderse a frica. Un documento publicado en un informe mdico en Internet seala que un hombre, de 23 aos, en Birmania que result infectado con malaria, muri debido a que la medicina que recibi era falsificada.…

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Genetic ‘Shield’ Guards Against Damaging Effects of Radiation Therapy

British researchers say they have found a way to shield healthy bone marrow cells from dangerous radiation during cancer treatments, the BBC reports. Writing in the latest issue of the Journal of Gene Medicine, scientists from Manchester University's Paterson Institute for Cancer Research say they have developed a genetic technique that stimulates bone marrow stem…

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Health community calls for global action against fake medicines

A general view of the World Health Organization's (WHO) annual assembly in Geneva. Health experts have warned that governments and industry were doing more to deal with the trade in counterfeit CDs than to tackle a growing wave of potentially lethal or harmful counterfeit medicines. 26 May 2006 Read the full story at www.todayonline.com.

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Let’s learn from global health failures

The World Health Organization and its member countries are holding their annual meeting, known as the World Health Assembly, in Geneva this week. With hopes dashed for meeting its ambitious AIDS prevention and treatment goals, criticisms of its failed Roll Back Malaria Program, and chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes threatening even…

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