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Abortion drugs: - Dangerous for the west, ok for the rest

We all know we live in worlds within worlds, and we can usually rely on medicine to exemplify the point. On July 11 the World Health Organization finally included two drugs - mifepristone and misoprostol, which both induce miscarriage - as ones that should be made available in developing countries. Just one week later the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American drug regulator, issued a special alert about the drugs after they had been linked to serious bacterial infection.
The FDA acted after four women had died from sepsis while taking the drug combination, and it has twice ordered a stiffer health warning on the labels that accompany the drugs.
A group of anti-abortion senators are trying to get the drugs banned, although any protests have little to do with the safety of the drugs.
Unwanted births are a major concern in developing countries, but there must be a better way of dealing with the problem than foisting on the mothers drugs that can kill them.

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Diabetes Drug: New health warning over the most-prescribed oral medication - There’s something very wrong about the world’s most heavily prescribed type II diabetes drugs.

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WHO Does What? Health organization takes illicit donations from drug companies, report claims - The World Health Organization (WHO) – supposedly an independent voice of global health - is accepting illicit payments from drug companies, a new repo...

Food irradiation 'safe', says who - The controversial technique of irradiation to increase the shelf life of food is safe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has proclaimed. ...

Animal drugs: hurt humans - The World Health Organization recently reviewed veterinary drug residues in food and concluded that many drugs used to "aid animal production" (read:...

Who calls for new guidelines on organic food labels - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization have agreed that new guidelines are needed for the production, processin...

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