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New Data Reveals Public Ignorance About the Impact of Lung Disease

-         New data released by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies ...

Health Experts Highlight Growing Typhoid Pandemic in Asia

-As Outbreaks in the Region Continue to Rise, Global Health Leaders Call for Expanded Immunization ...

Nippon Foundation Chairman Named Goodwill Ambassador for Welfare of National Races in Myanmar

-     The Nippon Foundation announced on June 12 that its Chairman Yohei Sasakawa has been ...

Polio eradication shifts into emergency mode

-       New cases at lowest levels ever, but funding gap threatens ...

Bio Farma receives international recognition

With 11 products provided by Indonesia`s leading vaccine manufacturer, PT Bio Farma has received recognition from the ...

Obituary - Indonesians mourn demise of minister Endang

In October 2010, many Indonesians were shocked to learn that Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih was suffering ...

Dengue fever endemic in Malang

Fifty-seven sub-districts in Malang city, East Java, are working to halt the spread of dengue fever, local health ...

World Health Organization and Alzheimer's Disease International Say Dementia Must be a Global Health

-     New Report Calls on Nations to Recognise Dementia as a Public Health ...

Indonesia world`s fifth pentavalent vaccine producer

Indonesia is now the world`s fifth pentavalent vaccine producer, after the state pharmaceutical firm PT Bio Farma has ...

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

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

Measles-related mortality rate drops 90 percent

The measles-related mortality rate in Indonesia has dropped by about 90 percent, a study by an international team of ...

Tangerang youth dies of H1N1, not H5N1

Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said that R (18), a Tangerang youth who initially reportedly died of bird ...

over 3,000 ai-infected chickens in C Sulawesi culled

Some 3,254 chickens were culled in 2011 in Central Sulawesi after they proved to have been infected with Avian ...

Man confirmed dead of bird flu in north Jakarta

A resident of Sunter, PD (23), in North Jakarta has been confirmed to have died of bird flu, a health ministry ...

WHO warns of lab-produced bird flu virus - (d)

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alert on Friday, warning that studies undertaken by several institutions ...