Articles Tagged “World Health Organization”
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Global Pandemics: Not If, But When
BY RALPH NADER The deadly influenza virus H7N9 was first detected in China this March. “When we look at influenza viruses, this is an unusually dangerous virus for humans,” said Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization’s [WHO] assistant director-general for health security. The new H7N9 avian influenza has infected more than 120 Chinese and taken [...]
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Getting It Right
BY RON du BOIS Medical expenses have long been the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., an embarrassment to the “richest” nation on the planet. As I understand it, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made it impossible to go bankrupt over medical bills in the U.S. If this is really the [...]
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Coburn’s Unreality
BY RON DU BOIS At Sen. Tom Coburn’s recent Town Hall meeting in Stillwater, when asked the question so many Canadians ask – “Why don’t Americans want what we have?” – he promptly reeled off all the serious problems of Canadian health care. He said the outcomes are worse in Canada for multiple medical procedures [...]
