UN global health agency chief wins 2nd term

May 23, 2012, 12:09 pm by Associated Press Healthwire

GENEVA (AP) -- Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general....

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