How industry-funded data on tobacco smuggling exaggerates the scale of the problem.
Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson reacts after hearing the verdict in his case against Monsanto at the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, Aug. 10, 2018.
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A jury concluded on Aug. 10 that exposure to the herbicide Roundup caused Dewayne Johnson’s cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. Thousands more claims are pending.
As US mothers returned to breastfeeding, the market for infant formula dried up, leading formula makers to seek new markets in developing nations. Here’s how that led to a recent outcry.
A technician holds a blood sample that tested positive for the hepatitis B virus.
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A new analysis shows that the US health care system will save money in the long run by screening people born in Asia and Africa for the hepatitis B virus, which causes liver cancer and cirrhosis.
Now that gaming addiction is officially recognised, we need to develop strategies to counteract it.
South Africa’s police commissioner, Khehla Sitole, and police minister, Bheki Cele, unveil a new plan to combat violent crimes.
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If your child is keeping their grades up and maintaining friends and hobbies, then their gaming activity is likely not a disorder or addiction.
To reduce the incidence of hepatitis B in Canada and to reduce mother-to-child transmission, it is vital that we vaccinate all infants at birth.
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To meet World Health Organization targets and reduce the rates of chronic hepatitis B infection among children, Canada should implement routine vaccination of all infants at birth.
A nurse prepares the Ebola vaccine in Bikoro in the DRC.
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Yap Boum, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Teams administering the Ebola vaccine in the Democratic Republic of Congo are in a race against time to find and help people exposed.
In low-resource settings many patients cannot access the tests they need for accurate diagnosis, treatment and a chance of survival. Here, patients wait in the Edna Adan University Hospital in Somalia, 2010.
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South Africa’s proposed new tobacco laws will tighten the grip on how cigarettes and other tobacco products are sold, marketed and regulated in the country.
Caregivers need to be educated on the importance of routine nutrition screening and interventions.
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Countries globally should adopt and adapt the World Health Organization’s new Essential Diagnostics List – as a key step in the management of all diseases.
A Liberian burial team during the world’s biggest Ebola outbreak in 2014.
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Director of Koi Tū, the Centre for Informed Futures; former Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau