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HuaweiGENEVA - The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, said on Monday that the global economic crisis was causing people to ditch healthy foods that this would lead to health problems.
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A US advisory panel on Tuesday called for greater restrictions on the widely-used pain reliever acetaminophen, even recommending banning some medications that contain it, in a bid to prevent potentially fatal overdoses.
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