Surgery is essential for global cancer care in all resource settings. Of the 15· 2 million new
cases of cancer in 2015, over 80% of cases will need surgery, some several times. By 2030 …

Access to medicines and vaccines to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
is unacceptably low worldwide. In the 2011 UN political declaration on the prevention and …

The right to information is a fundamental consumer value. Following the advent of health
warnings, the tobacco industry has repeatedly asserted that smokers are fully informed of …

On 30 January 2023 the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, announced his decision that covid-19 remains a public health emergency of …

In November 2011, Australia became the first country in the world to legislate for “plain
packaging” of tobacco products. As of December 1, 2012, the packaging of tobacco products …

Background Since the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control's (FCTC) entry into
force, the tobacco industry has initiated litigation challenging tobacco control measures …

'Voon, Mitchell, and Liberman offer a penetrating analysis of the monumental struggle
against smoking in the 21st century–the leading preventable cause of death in the world …

The need to reduce disability and premature deaths from non-communicable diseases
(NCDs) is increasingly engaging international organisations and national and sub-national …

In her opening address to the 2011 session of the World Health Organization's (WHO)
governing body, the World Health Assembly, WHO's Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan …

Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) are undertaking ambitious
governance reforms to prevent, prepare for, and respond to pandemics by concurrently …