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President Lee Myung-bak suggested that South Korea will seek to ban imports of U.S. beef from older cattle amid a public backlash against his government over fears of mad cow disease.

Physiotherapists have become the latest group of health workers to reject thegovernment's three-year pay offer.

The British government is looking at several ideas aimed at keeping young people from smoking, including one banning tobacco company logos on cigarette packs.

The country's leading not for profit organizations have united in an unprecedented effort to tackle the serious challenges to our health care system caused by diabetes and its complications. A 'National Policy Summit on the Serious Complications of Diabetes in Canada', to be held in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 3, is an unprecedented effort to focus attention of health care providers and government policy makers on the personal and financial toll of diabetes and its complications.

The Queensland Opposition has welcomed relief for first home buyers in this year's Budget, but says the government is plunging the state deep into debt.

The International Union Against Tuberculosis and LungDisease (The Union), an international organisation established in 1920 to fight TB andpromote lung health worldwide, today celebrates World No Tobacco Day by calling ongovernments to enact policies that protect young people: bans on tobacco promotion,increases in taxes, and graphic picture warning.

Prague - The Czech government agreed Tuesday to abolish health care fees for small children, seeking to soften the burden on patients introduced as part of a public finance reform in January. Leaders of three coalition parties in the centre-right gov...

'Higher cigarette taxes will help curb smoking and its deadly consequences. But little revenue is expected to be seen at the City or State level. Instead they will create a greater incentive for smugglers to use black market sales to fund terrorism. As we create disincentives for New Yorkers to start and continue smoking, we also need a renewed crackdown on smuggled cigarettes. We cannot ease a major health crisis by helping fund terrorism.' . . .Rep. Weiner is the author of the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) legislation, which increases penalties for individuals smuggling cigarettes and provides law enforcement with new tools to go after black market sales.Rep. Weiner's new tobacco bill comes just weeks after law enforcement seized six million dollars worth of counterfeit tax stamps and arrested a Jordanian man as part of a major sting. According to a recent government Office of Accountability (GAO) report, Hezbollah profited $1.5 million from the sale of illegal tobacc