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A new coronavirus — the same type of virus responsible for the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or […]
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A World Health Organisation agency has unanimously decided, based on the available evidence, that diesel fumes are linked to cancer. […]
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Leading medical journal The Lancet has published a special series of articles focusing on adolescent health, including an international comparison […]
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This week the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a global survey of urban air quality, but the figures for New […]
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Writer Kate Fraser investigates the health effects of salt and what we are doing to mitigate them. An excerpt (from […]
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The suggestion from a WHO task-force that cellphone exposure is “possibly carcinogenic” has generated wide spread media buzz over the […]
Continue readingODT: Swine flu still a threat here: Ministry of Health
With a fifth suspected swine flu death in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health is warning that New Zealand is […]
Continue readingNEW RESEARCH: Major WHO report on social determinants of health
Why does a girl in Lesotho live 42 years less than a girl in Japan? And how is it that […]
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