The global health body remains reluctant to credit vaping for lower smoking rates. Read More
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Five questions for the World Health Organization as the FCTC marks its 15th anniversaryRead More
Now would be a good time for the World Health Organization to change direction.Read More
The WHO needs to target more of its resources at communicable diseases.Read More
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WHO Criticized for ‘Backward-Looking’ Approach
Public health experts say they are exasperated by the WHO’s “dogmatic hostility” towards new technology.Read More
The sector has 'imprisoned' million of young people to a life of addiction, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish youth.Read More
In the fight against smoking, the World Health Organization appears to measure success in bureaucratic rather than human terms. Read More
U.S. president says global health body must demonstrate its independence from China. Read More
Health ministers from the 53 European member nations of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sept. 16 agreed to a plan to make “tobacco a thing of the past” within the next decade. The member nations—who convened at the WHO’s 65th session of the Regional Committee for Europe in Vilnius, Lithuania—intend to realize this goal by...Read More
The tobacco industry braces for the fallout of “Uruguay” and the recommendations about to be issued by the FDA’s tobacco products committee. By George Gay In a report to the executive board of the World Health Organization earlier this year, Director General Dr. Margaret Chan said the organization was not performing well enough across all of...Read More