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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 ...

Lactobacillus reuteri Protectis Reduced Diarrhoea in Children

         A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 494 children showed that ...

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 ...

New Actavis / Bioton Alliance to Shake up Diabetes Market

-   Global Managed-Care Offering to Help Bring Down Treatment Costs for 366 Million ...

Private and Public Partners Unite to Combat 10 Neglected Tropical Diseases by 2020

-     Partners pledge innovative, coordinated action aimed at new World Health Organisation ...

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 ...

Toxic liquor kills 143 in eastern India

A batch of home-brewed liquor thought to have been laced with the highly toxic chemical methanol has killed 143 people ...

At least 36 killed in Brazil road accident

At least 36 people were killed Saturday in a crash between a truck and bus carrying farm workers in Brazil`s ...

On World COPD Day, Patients are Urged to Take Extra Care Ahead of This Winter

-                 - Updated international ...

Aussie scientist talks about new anti-malaria drugs

Australian scientist Geoff McFadden here on Wednesday explained how malaria can be treated using new drugs and ...

In developing world, poor still means thin

"First world" health problems such as obesity and heart disease may be gaining ground in developing nations, but they ...