Africa: Health Organization Aims to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases [State Department] The World Health Organization (WHO) is intensifying efforts to prevent, control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases, ailments that plague the developing world. The new WHO campaign aims to eradicate at least 10 of these illnesses by 2020. Big Pharma donates drugs for neglected diseases LONDON (Reuters) - The world's major pharmaceutical companies joined forces with governments and leading global health organizations Monday to donate drugs and scientific know-how to help control or wipe out 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020. Drugmakers have been criticized in the past for not doing enough to fight diseases of the poor as they concentrate instead on conditions more ... Brewer planners approve medical marijuana clinic In this Oct. 22, 2009, file photo, a medical-marijuana user holds a homegrown bud in Portland, Maine. Patients camp outside SIUT for lack of accommodation KARACHI, Feb 6: Zebunnisa gets no visitors at her ramshackle tent just across the street from the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) in Karachi?s old city area. 'Designer' babies with three parents 'may help eradicate genetic diseases' Melbourne, Feb 5 (ANI):Sydney scientists are now willing to create designer babies with the DNA of three parents to prevent children from inheriting life-threatening genetic diseases.
