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Some Fear Industry Interests Are Stalling Negotiations On U.N. NCD Summit, BMJ Reports
"In the run up to the U.N. summit on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there are fears that industry interests might be trumping evidence-based public health interventions," BMJ reports. "Many hope that this meeting will force [NCDs] into the spotlight just as the first health-related U.N. summit did for AIDS a decade ago," but "[w]ith only weeks to go before the summit ... [d]iscussions have stopped on the document that forms the spine of the summit," BMJ writes.
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