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Archive for June 1st, 2008

Amazon.com last week modified its search engine to remove the question, “Did you mean adoption?” from appearing at the top of the page when “abortion” is searched, the New York Times reports. Amazon removed the question when a member of the Religious Coalition for

“It’s been a long time since the days of back-alley abortions in the U.S.,” which is why South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds (R) might not “remember what it was like” before Roe v. Wade - the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively barred state abortion bans -

Inadequate government plans and a lack of response during Hurricane Katrina led to the deaths of dozens of elderly New Orleans residents and left many nursing home and hospital patients without necessary care, members of the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee said on Tuesday, the

A one-day workshop with the aim of better understanding how satellite telecommunications might be useful for improving and complementing African healthcare systems was held in Brussels on 27 January 2006.

The workshop addressed not only improvements to existing healthcare systems but

The AP/CNN on Friday examined threats by abortion-rights groups to boycott South Dakota attractions, such as Mount Rushmore and the Badlands, in protest of a recently passed law (HB 1215) that bans abortion in the state except to save a pregnant woman’s life. According to the AP/CNN,

Following a number of security incidents affecting its staff, Doctors Without Borders/M閐ecins Sans Fronti鑢es (MSF) has decided to temporarily withdraw its teams from most of the southeastern Pool region of the Republic of Congo, the organization has announced. As a result, all of MSF’s

The following summarizes two recent stories on health issues related to Hurricane Katrina.

• Hospital preparedness: Experts at an emergency planning workshop at Georgetown University last week said medical facilities “must work quickly” with local, state and federal
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In the run up to the African Union summit in Khartoum this month, WFP has warned that a humanitarian catastrophe would engulf the drought-stricken Horn of Africa unless WFP receives urgent donations to provide emergency food aid for an estimated 5.4 million people.

In collaboration with

WFP has welcomed a US$10 million contribution from DFID, the UK Department for International Development, to help operate a helicopter fleet bringing assistance to the survivors of the massive earthquake that hit Pakistan last October.

(WFP = World Food Programme)

“We are

The American Red Cross today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Operation HOPE, Incorporated, a nonprofit public benefit organization founded in Los Angeles immediately following the civil unrest of April 29, 1992. The Memorandum provides for mutual cooperation between the two