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AFP - The World health Organization on Thursday praised the United Nations General Assembly for taking the lead in banning smoking and tobacco sales at the UN headquarters in new york.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- health inequalities between rich and poor people are much lower in areas that have lots of green space, such as parks, forests and playing fields, a large British study finds.

Pycnodysostosis, a condition from which the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec suffered, is a genetic disease characterized by short stature. This rare disease, surprisingly, provides a window into how joints are destroyed by arthritis.

Researchers have identified a potential new therapeutic target that could be used to treat inflammatory disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Drugs that hit this new target are actually in trials for the treatment of another disease, leukemia.