WHO puts abortifacients on its essential drug list

WHO to launch first essential medicines list for children.

WHO puts healthy ageing on the front burner.

“You old people get out and do something!” The advice comes from Felimina Rotundo, who runs a laundry shop in Buff alo, NY, USA. She turned a hundred on Oct 20, 2015, and has been “doing something”—working 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, from dawn to dusk—for the past 85 years. “I talk to people all day”, she tells the journalists gathered in the doorway of her shop. “I get up in the morning and...

The use of essential drugs. Model list of essential drugs (seventh list). Fifth report of the WHO Expert Committee.

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading the use of essential drugs model list of essential drugs seventh list fifth report of the who expert committee world health orga...

A comparative analysis of the Libyan national essential medicines list and the WHO model list of essential medicines

AIM AND OBJECTIVES To examine the concordance of the Libyan Pharmaceutical List of Essential Medicines (LPLEM) with the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines 2009 (WMLEM 2009). METHODS The concordance between generic medicines listed in the WMLEM 2009 (standard reference list) and the LPLEM 2006 (comparator list) was evaluated. RESULTS The total number of Basic Essenti...

WHO reveals its shopping list for weapons against Zika.

If viruses had ears, Zika virus would be in bad shape after listening to a WHO official describing the armamentarium the world is getting ready to launch against it. “Based on our experience with research and development during the west Africa Ebola epidemic, WHO’s [R&D] response is proceeding very quickly for Zika”, Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and Innovati...