GlaxoSmithKline will pay for the training of more healthcare workers who will dispense medicines and give vaccinations
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The charity will take a seat on a new GSK board overseeing its paediatric research and development “to accelerate progress on innovative life-saving interventions for under-fives” and widen access in the developing world, they said in a joint statement.
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Musharraf recently gave an interview to CNN’s Nic Robertson when he admitted that he had given the U.S. permission on a “very few” occasions to strike targets within Pakistan. Musharraf, an army general who overthrew a democratically elected government during a 1999 coup, had previously remained silent about the strikes Washington carried out under his tenure.
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The chemical industry is panicking because of this(limited) ban and you have to wonder why. They wouldn’t lose much money with a total ban anyway because they also manufacture the alternative insecticides.
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Hillary Clinton is behind the “Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves” So you know that something is up. This article still focuses on the climate change aspect, but it is also mentioned how unhealthy open fires are.
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The trial of the former KGB spy, whose family own the Independent newspapers and the London Evening Standard, is expected to restart soon following a delay over a legal wrangle.
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Forget Femen. Fuck for Forest use porn to spread their green message. I ran into one of their happenings some years ago and was neither shocked nor impressed. But just maybe there is something to this shockivism.
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RTS Labs, an Iranian research firm, has started work on a drone lifeguard. Tired of hearing stories about people drowning in the Caspian Sea, the researchers sought out a way to improve water rescue.
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Europe’s cap-and-trade system for reducing the release of greenhouse gases is broken, but not everybody wants to fix it. Industry has profited immensely from the plummeting prices of CO2 emissions certificates, and from lax checks on questionable environmental projects undertaken overseas.
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This might be genuine discovery. More likely the patents on these mentioned cholesterol lowering drugs are about to expire.
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