Disciplines: Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Biochemistry.
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The WHO Expert Committee on Malaria met in Geneva from 6 to 14 November 1989. The meeting was opened on behalf of the Director-General by Dr T. Bektimirov, Assistant Director-General, who pointed out that during the last decade no progress had been made towards reducing the global malaria ~roblem while new impedimenta to sustained control had emerged. In particular, during the past two years there had been some dramatic outbreaks of epidemic malaria. The impact of the ma...
Within the framework of its Global Strategy for Health and Environment, WHO is supporting the development of documentation centres and reference libraries in countries at local, regional and national levels so that scientific and technical information on health and environment becomes more widely and readily available. More specifically, WHO has - in collaboration with UNEP - created the Global Health and Environment Library Network (GELNET). The network aims to facilita...
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PREFACE This publication is the result of close collaboration between the Joint Commission on International Aspects of Mental Retardation and the World Health Organization in an area of great significance for public health and for social development. Tens of millions of people have some degree of intellectual impairment that results in disability and severe suffering, much of which can be alleviated if appropriate measures are taken. Today many such measures are possible...
The United Nations General Assembly (2000) adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) on 8 September 2000.
WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON BIOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION Eighteenth Report The WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization met in Geneva from 27 September to 2 October 1965. Dr P. Dorolle, Deputy Director-General, on behalf of the Director- General, welcomed the members of the Committee, as well as the representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Recalling the long traditions of the work on biological standardization, the Deputy Directo...
The WHO Scientific Group on Cell-Mediated Immune Responses, which met in Geneva from 8 to 14 October 1968, Tras opened on behalf of the Director-General by Dr. A. M.-~I.PAYsE: Assistant Director- General. Dr. PAYNEno ted that in recent years an increasing number of diseases have been recognized in which it is not possible to correlate the presence or level of humoral antibodies with the clinical picture or degree of resistance. WHO had accordingly convened the meeting in...
In its twenty-sixth report (3), the WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations considered various aspects of quality assurance in pharmaceutical supply systems and suggested that to fulfil some of the objectives enumerated in resolution WHA28.66 of the Twenty-eighth World Health Assembly relating to the regulatory control of drugs, a comprehensive review of approaches to quality assurance should be recommended. A document containing such a rev...
1. INTRODUCTION Female sex hormones1 have now been used for nearly forty years for a variety of purposes. including the treatment of threatened abortion, habitual abortion, premature labour, infertility, and dysmenorrhoea. They have also been used as abortifacients, as agents in pregnancy tests, and, most widely, as contraceptives. Well over 30 naturally occurring and synthetically derived sex hormone formulations have been used, and with the exception of their use in co...
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Excerpt: Providing Pesticide Training to Regulators In an effort to fulfill training needs of regional, state, and tribal regulators on pesticide regulatory issues, OPP hosted five Pesticide Regulatory Education Program (PREP) courses in FY 2003. Representatives from more than 23 states attended the courses on the reregistration and worker protection programs, bioengineered crops and invasive species, West Nile virus, homeland security, and state FIFRA laboratory issues.
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It was first published in two volumes in 1890; and the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised twelve volumes. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855). It offe...
The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief to scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat and many other symbols and practices which have influenced the 20th century. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king. Specifically, that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.