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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warmly welcomed its first ever contribution of food from the Zambian government, a donation of 10,000 metric tons of maize worth US$2.5 million that will allow hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Zambians to keep

The American Red Cross is deploying a disaster relief worker to Sudan to assist the flood relief efforts. According to the Sudanese government, more than 35,000 families have been affected by the floods. However, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) condemned the dramatic escalation in attacks on humanitarian staff and food convoys in Darfur, which are hampering WFP’s ability to deliver assistance to millions of hungry people in the strife-torn region of

Nearly half million minorities in the United States are waiting on organ transplants and Eve J. Higginbotham, MD, Dean of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta is calling on minorities to become organ and tissue donors.

As the United States prepares to observe National Minority

An estimated 135,000 (65 percent) of sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) treated in U.S. emergency departments occur each year in young people ages 5 to 18, according to a study published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and

Efforts to address problems with the “shattered” New Orleans health care system in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina might prove the most important to the “economic revival” of the city, the New York Times reports. Before the hurricane, the health care system served as

Reacting to the flooding situation across large parts of southern England, Daniel Pearson, director of community services at Help the Aged said:

‘The floods in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Berkshire and elsewhere are unprecedented and will inevitably cause distress and worry

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has declared its commitment to help the American Red Cross fulfill basic human needs during times of disaster by becoming a member of the Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP). Pledging to donate $1 million payable over five years, Kimberly-Clark will donate annual

For the past year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been soliciting respiratory therapists to volunteer for a program aimed at providing health professionals to serve as temporary federal employees in the event of a national disaster.

HHS would like to recruit 200

Giving mothers and children in developing countries twice the WHO recommended doses of vitamin A, as suggested by an international vitamin group, does not have a beneficial effect. The findings are reported in an Article published in this week’s edition of The Lancet.