Under-5 Mortality Drops to Record Low
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The number of deaths worldwide among children under 5 dropped to a record low of 9.7 million in 2006, reflecting progress in areas such as malaria prevention, childhood immunizations and breastfeeding rates, global health officials said yesterday.
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NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp, sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice...
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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ONE in 12 children worldwide died before their fifth birthday, with half of all such deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations reported yesterday in its annual survey of infant mortality.
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Tooth decay among children is at its lowest recorded level since 1983, figures show.
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India has fewer than 2.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS, a senior health official said on Wednesday, nearly 60 percent lower than the 5.7 million estimated by the United Nations.
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A service where heart attack patients are sent for treatment within the hour has reduced death-rates five-fold, doctors say.
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Malta has made &quot;the most dramatic leap&quot; forward in reducing child deaths since 1990, a global report published yesterday by Unicef has shown.
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BERLIN -- The United States and Britain ranked at the bottom of a United Nations survey of child welfare in 21 wealthy countries that assessed everything from infant mortality to whether children ate dinner with their parents or were bullied at school.
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The murder rate in Scotland falls to its lowest level since 2000 with stabbings the most common cause of death.
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In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before age 5. In Iraq (news - web sites), one in 10 does not make it to a fifth birthday.
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Improvements in mental health services in England have cut suicide rates to the lowest yet, says a report.
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MONDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Global experts on child health are meeting in New York City on Monday to discuss an ongoing tragedy: the fact that 10.5 million children under the age of five die each year.
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NAIROBI, Oct 8 (IPS) - First, the good news: while nearly one in five  children was dying before the age of five in the early 1960s,  this figure had dropped to less than one in 12 by 2002.
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(CBS) The statistics are frightening: One child in the US dies from choking on food every five days, according to the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Babies slow to grow in the womb who play catch-up in their first weeks of life after birth risk chest illnesses, research shows.
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Life & style: Â£42m scheme has failed to improve health of children.