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35 die of measles across Europe as outbreaks increase 400%

Measles cases escalated across Europe last year, with significant outbreaks affecting one in four countries, it has emerged.

general

Microwave popcorn, nightshifts and other surprising things linked with cancer

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WHO food report: No need to avoid red meat, says FSAI

world

E-cigarettes could save millions of lives, WHO told

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Hospital care at weekends a concern

world

Tobacco use kills five million a year

Swine flu virus is unstoppable, warns WHO

SAYING the new H1N1 virus is “unstoppable”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave drugmakers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain yesterday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one.

Wed, 15 Jul, 2009

Cancer to become world's biggest killer by 2010

Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world’s top killer by 2010, international health experts said today.

Tue, 09 Dec, 2008

Killer air: Pollution scare in southeast Asia

The haze that has shrouded parts of southeast Asia this month is just one visible element of a much larger problem that kills hundreds of thousands of people in the region every year, the World Health Organisation said.

Sat, 20 Aug, 2005