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Cancer: The world's No. 1 killer in 2010
According to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on December 9, cancer will overcome heart disease to become the leading killer disease in 2010.
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Tobacco will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has published data showing that: In addition to the progress in tobacco control work has been achieved, no country has full…
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Cancer killed 7.6 million people in 2007
In addition to nearly 8 million deaths, an additional 12 million people carry cancer. That is the data published by the American Cancer Organization yesterday.
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388 million people can die from unhealthy living
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the next decade, non-communicable diseases, stemming from unhealthy lifestyles, can kill some 388 million people wor…
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Rules for the first 20 years of life
The World Health Organization (WHO) has just published the first rule to permit the classification and assessment of young people's health with the title How to classify…
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Measures to reduce mortality from cancer in the United States
The new report of leading cancer organizations in the United States published last week showed that the death rate from cancer is declining rapidly across the United Sta…
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Death comes from Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on September 1 that it is studying a new epidemic, spreading rapidly and causing high casualties that are occurring in Kasa…
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WHO: Global contagious disease
According to the annual report of the World Health Organization (WHO), infectious diseases are spreading rapidly worldwide. The report said that with about 2.1 billion p…
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WHO: Food safety is a problem for every country
The World Health Organization (WHO) calls on international opinion not to pay too much attention to China's food safety issue, but all countries need to strengthen contr…
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Using a false breast can reduce the risk of sudden death during sleep
On June 24, experts from the UK's Infant Research Organization warned parents to give babies a pacifier often while sleeping to avoid the risk of sudden death.
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WHO: travelers flying should exercise leg
World Health Organization (WHO) on June 29 recommends that passengers traveling on long flights should exercise their feet and avoid sleeping pills to reduce the risk of…
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WHO urges all countries to ban smoking in public places
On the occasion of World No Smoking Day 31-5, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on all countries to issue a ban on smoking in closed public places, consider…
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3 more children died outside the country after vaccination B
Around the incident after vaccination for hepatitis B with 3 children in Vietnam, the World Health Organization announced that 3 more foreign children have died related…
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Drug story version in Thailand
'Thailand's anti-AIDS version of drugs makes drug-resistant HIV virus'. A warning, black-and-white ad in the Thai daily newspaper The Nation reported on May 13 that 600,…
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200,000 people died of toxic substances causing cancer
The World Health Organization warns that at least 200,000 people die from cancer every year because of secondhand smoke and exposure to asbestos at work. The above warni…