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The government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has long been mum about its plans for Vancouver's Insite drug harm-reduction program, but a recent court ruling has forced the Conservative government's hand.

0 posts The World health Organization (WHO) urged governments to protect the world's 1.8 billion young people by imposing a ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. The WHO call to...

By Reuters Plain packs a risk to UK cigarette profits-analysts British cigarette makers face a new and serious risk to their profits if the UK government rules that cigarettes should only be sold in p...

Department of health proposes banning logos or branding on cigarette packs One proposal is to use plain black-and-white boxes with health warnings UK government is also considering banning cigarette v...

Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, is to import 500,000 metric tonnes of rice as part of the fight against food shortages, a senior government official said Monday.

Sen. Charles Grassley's (R-Iowa) request that the government Accountability Office 'launch an inquiry into whether FDA behaved appropriately in granting' accelerated approval of

Launching the UK government's AIDS Strategy today, Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, underlined the UK's ongoing leadership in the global effort to achieve Universal Access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.Douglas Alexander announced that DFID will spend £6 billion on improving health systems and services, in poor countries up to 2015.

The World health Organization (WHO) wants a ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, in a bid to protect the world's 1.8 billion young people. The organization said it is urging all governments to to clamp down on the tobacco industry's efforts to attract young people through 'sophisticated marketing'.

HealthDay - MONDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- A sweeping government studyof childhood cancers has found numerous differences in cancer typesdepending on a child's age, sex, race and where he or she lives in theUnited States.

The Queensland government says a report on lead levels in Mount Isa that went missing for more than a decade was collected for the local mining company, not the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).