Starting October 4, 2008, the BBC will begin airing a nine-part documentary series focusing on different global health issues, including TB, HIV, malaria, maternal mortality, childhood diseases, pneumonia and neglected tropical diseases. Each fifty minute film is set in a different country and focuses on a different disease or health issue.
Once broadcast on television, shows [...]
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For the first time, China adopts standards governing levels of melamine in milk products. Newsweek
Governing agencies in the Phillipines instructed by the President to close stores that were selling banned Chinese milk products. Business World
Biotech company to introduce genetic testing for common forms of breast cancer. Washington Post
Grameen Bank of Bangladesh is teaming up with Pfizer [...]
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Medication Abortion in Canada: A Right-to-Health Perspective
Joanna Erdman, University of Toronto – Faculty of Law
Amy Grenon, affiliation not provided to SSRN
Leigh Harrison-Wilson, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 98, pp. 1764-1769, 2008
Abstract:
The right to health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, to which Canada is [...]
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