Tag: current-number
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Cost hampers drive to double number of children treated for starvation: hunger experts
By Alex Whiting ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A drive to give six million severely malnourished children life-saving treatment every year by 2020 – twice the current number – will only succeed if governments prioritize it alongside other killers and treatment costs are cut, hunger experts said on Thursday. The number of children treated for severe…
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U.N. resumes Syria aid delivery after attack
By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations appealed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups on Thursday to allow aid convoys to enter eastern Aleppo as U.N. relief operations in Syria resumed after a 48-hour suspension due to a deadly attack. A U.N. convoy loaded with medical and other…
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Spain: US mining exec, 2 others fined for water pollution
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has convicted and fined an American mining company executive and two other people for environmental offences committed by a Spanish copper mining firm.
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Italian minister under renewed fire for Fertility Day campaign
By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – Italian Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin came under renewed fire on Thursday as she hosted a “Fertility Day” conference aimed at persuading couples to have more children. An advertising campaign launched by the ministry had to be pulled at the start of the month after critics denounced it as sexist…
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UK okays Alexion drug costing up to 1.5 million pounds but wants price cut
A new drug to treat a rare inherited bone disorder that was developed by Alexion Pharmaceuticals and could cost up to 1.5 million pounds a year per patient has been cleared for limited use by Britain’s health cost watchdog. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which had turned down Strensiq as too…