UN gathering on non-communicable diseases considers ways to combat scourge Delegates at a United Nations high-level conference on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) today considered strategies to combat the preventable, mostly lifestyle- and diet-related illnesses that have become major killers across the world. Participants at the two-day meeting, hosted by the General Assembly, yesterday adopted a declaration […]

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UN launches global campaign to curb death toll from non-communicable diseases. The United Nations today launched an all-out attack on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer and diabetes with a summit meeting devoted to curbing the factors, like tobacco and alcohol use, behind the often preventable scourge that causes 63 per cent of all deaths. […]

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