Irene Khan has told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it has a fundamental role to play as the moral voice of the international community.

A vote in Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the reservation of Raposa Serra do Sol on the frontier between Brazil and Guyana/Venezuela.

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The increasingly popular instant tea beverage may be a source of harmful levels of fluoride, claim US scientists on findings from a very small study.

Today United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reported that authorities of Israel gave permission for 13 trucks with medicines and vegetable butter to enter the Gaza Strip.

Discrimination and the social exclusion of people living with HIV are undermining efforts to respond to AIDS

President-elect Barack Obama announced that he has chosen former Sen. Tom Daschle to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Teachers using red pen to mark students' work could be harming their psyche as the colour is too aggressive, according to education strategies drafted by the Australian Queensland state Health Ministry.

Spreading of tuberculosis in HIV-positive people and in patients with AIDS has become an important and essential problem for Ukraine. Elena Radzievska, Deputy Director of the Project for Tuberculosis Control of the Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN) told about that

Fewer than a third of U.S. adults have received a flu vaccine so far this year and only about half said they intended to get one, according to a survey released recently.

There was a growing number of specialists using methods of alternative and folk medicine (AFM) in Ukraine (1,956 persons) in 2005, but in 2007 the number of similar specialists were already registered an order of magnitude less - 1108 persons.

Former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos has died at at the age of 74 years old. In 2004 he led Greek Cypriot rejection of a United Nations reunification plan for the divided Mediterranean island.

Families headed by a single mother can suffer worse health, sometimes linked to poverty, explained Professor Iso, of Osaka University, Japan.

According to MHU as of December 7, 49,000 persons have fallen ill with flu and ARD, of them 28,500 are children (control cities). Flu epidemic has not been declared until now; however, doctors assert that this information is not always

The Kharkov city head Mykola Dobkin handed keys of new ambulances to drivers of "Motor Pool of the First Aid Service of Kharkiv" during his working journey to that enterprise.

Antibody fights AIDS-like disease in monkeys

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II interrupted his rest in November in Spain due to ciliary arrhythmia diagnosed in him and after that he had to go to Munich for treatment, a metropolitan Krutickiy and Kolomenskiy Yuvenaliy

Patients, who are treated with the help of alternative and folk medicine (AFM), more frequently treat diseases of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (20.8%), diseases of respiratory apparatus and nervous system (11.9%), diseases of digestive apparatus (11.4%), urogenital system diseases

President Robert Mugabe declared that Zimbabwe's cholera crisis was over Thursday, even as the United Nations raised the death toll from the epidemic to 783.

Long-term use of popular oral diabetic drugs doubles the risk of fractures in women with type-2 diabetes, according to a new study. Canadian Medical Association Journal reports.