Tag: week-the-health
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Reliance on China health sector raises searching questions for Baidu
By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – The death of a student following experimental cancer treatment he found through China's biggest search engine, Baidu Inc , has exposed the faultlines in the company's business model, which relies heavily on income from the country's lightly regulated health sector. Before his death, student Wei Zexi, 21, criticized the…
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Fight against AIDS threatened by lack of money, leadership, U.N. head says
By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Global progress fighting AIDS could be lost because prevention programs are suffering from a lack of leadership, accountability and funding, the head of the United Nations warned on Friday. Headway in tackling the epidemic has been “inspiring,” with a 42 percent decline in AIDS-related deaths since…