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1.5 Million Premature Cancer Deaths Could be Prevented per Year if Targets Set to Reduce NCDs are Met by 2025

-On World Cancer Day, UICC and International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reveal real-life impact of achieving ...

Suicides in US military rise to record level

Suicides in the US military rose to a record level last year, with 349 troops taking their lives, despite concerted ...

Flooding kills hundreds of people in Indonesia in 2012

The Indonesian environmentalist organization (Walhi) expressed concern with the many people falling victims to ...

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Additional $220 Million to Fight Global Tobacco Use

-     - Progress to date includes 1.2 billion people protected by effective tobacco control ...

Three Steps to Unbreakable Bones on World Osteoporosis Day

-             For this year's World Osteoporosis Day (October 20), ...

RI govt intensifying HIV/AIDS eradication efforts to achieve MDG target

Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung Laksono said the government was intensifying its efforts to fight ...

Diabetes Heightens Risk Of Cancer Death - Study - (d)

Doctors know that diabetics have a higher than normal risk of dying of heart attacks or strokes, but new research on ...

Rising status of women, increased risk of smoking

Millions of women in developing countries risk disease and early death in the coming decades as the tobacco industry ...