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WHO issues new diseases catalogue

Being transgender is not a mental condition, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced.

At the same time, stroke will be treated as a neurological condition and not a circulatory disease, following advocacy by players who wanted improved medical interventions and accurate data on deaths.

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