Professor Lawrence Gostin is the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights. He serves on the Director-General’s Advisory Committee on R...

A World Health Organization (WHO) classification of hematopoietic and lymphoid neoplasms has recently been published. This classification was developed through the collaborative efforts of the Society for Hematopathology, the European Association of Hematopathologists, and more than 100 clinical hematologists and scientists who are internationally recognized for their expertise in hematopoietic...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Americas, has tried to promote health technology assessment (HTA) in Latin America for 25 years. A certain awareness of HTA developed in several countries because of these efforts. In the late 1990's, there was a strong movement for health reform in Latin America, and HTA became part of t...

379 1Project Manager, Department of Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 2Technical Officer (Legal), WHO Framework Convention Tobacco Control Secretariat, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 3Regional Adviser, Tobacco Free Initiative, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization, Regional Offic...

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