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(11/2010) How To Save Health Care By Dr. Jeffrey B. English

2010-11-03T18:56:35Z

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(11/2010) How To Save Health Care By Dr. Jeffrey B. English

2010-11-03T18:03:13Z

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One in 10 births around world premature: WHO

2010-04-16T07:55:30Z

GENEVA (Reuters) - One in 10 of the some 130 million births around the world each year is premature, the vast majority in poorer countries where chances of survival are low, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

An article in the U.N. agency's January bulletin als...

Report: 13 million babies worldwide born premature

2010-04-16T09:59:41Z

Report finds nearly 13 million babies worldwide born premature, 1 million die

They call it kangaroo care: A premature baby nestles skin-to-skin against mom's bare, warm chest. In Malawi, mothers' bodies take the place of too-pricey incubators to keep these fragile newborns alive.

Nearly one in 10 of the world's babies is born premature, and about 1 million infants die each year as a result, says a startling first a...

Organizations Plan Meeting to Discuss Crisis of Prematurity and Stillbirth

2010-10-21T09:30:48Z

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Religion Today

2010-10-20T15:33:04Z

Rev. Grace Akunor of Ghana chops wood in Lineville, Ala., Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 to burn in hand made, efficient, clean-burning cook stoves constructed from mud bricks. The small, boxy structures replace open fires that the World...

Afghanistan Disfiguring Disease

2010-10-15T07:32:52Z

In this photo taken in April, 2010, and released by the World Health Organization Friday, Oct. 15, 2010, a victim suffering from cutaneous leishmanisis, a parasitic disease transmitted by the female phlebotomine sand fly that causes disfiguring skin sores is treated at the Kabul national malaria and lieshmaniasis clinic in U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius answers journalists's questions during a press conference after her statement at the 63rd the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) at the European headquarters of the Kano, Nigeria. At the World Health Organization's annual meeting of health ministers this week, experts are unveiling a new strategy that may be their last shot to wipe out the paralyzing disease.(AP Photo/Sunday A...

Indonesia Marlboro Country

2010-10-22T13:43:08Z

Indonesian men smoke cigarettes at a chicken market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. The world's fourth most populous nation allows tobacco companies virtual free rein to peddle their products, from movies to sports sponsorships and television shows. It also remains one of the last holdouts that has not signed the