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  • Number of Parkinson's sufferers will double in next 25 years
    News - 29 Jan 2007
    The study highlights the significant challenge facing countries with rapidly growing economies, particularly in Asia, many of which are ill prepared to meet this impending public health threat.
  • 68,000 women a year die from botched abortions
    News - 28 Nov 2006
    According to a new study as many as 68,000 women each year die as a result of botched abortion procedures and another 5 million develop infections and complications.
  • Global sharing of avian influenza virus samples
    News - 2 Aug 2006
    OFFLU, the OIE/FAO joint network of expertise on avian influenza, will systematically make avian influenza virus sequences accessible to the entire scientific community.
  • Polio making a comeback
    News - 30 Jul 2006
    The World Health Organization (WHO) says increasing numbers of people around the world are vulnerable to polio because they have not been previously exposed to the disease.
  • A map of recent positive selection in the human genome
    News - 9 Mar 2006
    By scanning the entire human genome in search of genetic variations that may signal recent evolution, University of Chicago researchers found more than 700 genetic variants that may be targets of...
  • Third nationwide polio drive in Indonesia in attempt to eliminate the disease
    News - 19 Oct 2005
    Indonesia which is still battling to eliminate the recurring outbreak of polio, will hold a third nationwide polio immunisation drive in November to try to finally stamp out the crippling disease.
  • After four years, Angola reports its first case of polio
    News - 4 Jul 2005
    After four years, Angola has reported its first case of polio. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that the crippling disease polio has also spread within Indonesia to Sumatra island.
  • Polio alert after Indonesian child is stricken
    News - 3 May 2005
    After an 18-month-old boy was diagnosed with polio, Australian parents planning holidays in Indonesia have been warned to ensure babies and toddlers have been vaccinated for polio.
  • Global Health Service needed to fight AIDS
    News - 20 Apr 2005
    A report by the non-partisan Institute of Medicine is calling for the creation of a U.S. Global Health Service comprised of doctors, nurses and other health care workers to help combat HIV/AIDS in the...
  • WHO announces $2 billion gap in financing for AIDS treatment
    News - 26 Jan 2005
    Today, at the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report showing a "rapid expansion" in the number of people living in poor countries gaining...

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