Kate Kelland
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In world's worst cholera outbreak, vaccine talks hang in the balanceDecember 29, 2017
LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - A cholera epidemic in Yemen, one of the worst ever recorded, is likely to surge again around March, giving global health experts a few months to get vaccines in to the war-...
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U.S. House committee 'may reconsider' WHO cancer agency fundsDecember 8, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional committee members warned on Friday that Washington's funding of the World Health Organization's cancer research agency could be halted unless it is more open...
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Exclusive: Congressional committee questions operation of WHO cancer agencyNovember 1, 2017
LONDON, (Reuters) - Two influential U.S. Congressmen have asked the World Health Organization's cancer agency to get ready to testify about its work assessing if substances cause cancer, citing...
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In glyphosate review, WHO cancer agency edited out 'non-carcinogenic' findingsOctober 19, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's cancer agency dismissed and edited findings from a draft of its review of the weedkiller glyphosate that were at odds with its final conclusion that...
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Exclusive: Africa to get state-of-art HIV drugs for $75 a yearSeptember 21, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - Makers of generic AIDS drugs will start churning out millions of pills for Africa containing a state-of-the-art medicine widely used in rich countries, after securing a multi-...
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U.S. lawmakers seek missing information in review of Monsanto weedkillerAugust 9, 2017
LONDON, (Reuters) - The chairman of a congressional committee has asked the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explain why its National Cancer Institute (NCI) failed to publish data that...
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We need to talk about sex, robot experts sayJuly 4, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - Move over blow-up dolls, the sex robots are here.Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into the global sex market, bringing with it a revolution in robotic "sextech"...
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Special Report: Cancer agency left in the dark over glyphosate evidenceJune 14, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - When Aaron Blair sat down to chair a week-long meeting of 17 specialists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France in March 2015, there was something he wasn't...
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Exclusive: U.S. congressional committee demands answers on WHO cancer agencyJanuary 13, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - The chairman of a U.S. congressional committee investigating taxpayer funding of a World Health Organization cancer agency has asked U.S. health officials to release crucial...
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Scientists link higher dementia risk to living near heavy trafficJanuary 5, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - People who live near roads laden with heavy traffic face a higher risk of developing dementia than those living further away, possibly because pollutants get into their brains via...
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Exclusive: U.S. lawmakers to investigate funding of WHO cancer agencyOctober 6, 2016
LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Officials from the U.S. government's health research agency are to be questioned by a congressional committee about why taxpayers are funding a World Health Organization...
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Trio wins Nobel chemistry prize for 'world's smallest machines'October 5, 2016
STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - A trio of European scientists has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing molecular machines that could one day be injected to fight cancer or used to make...