Doctors airlifted to help sick Afghan children
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A group of Afghan and UN doctors flew into central Afghanistan to offer help after 25 children died of whooping cough, government and US military officials said.
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Pakistan and Afghanistan are to set  up five checkposts on their common border to screen children  for polio and give them vaccine drops in the hope of  eliminating one of the world's last reservoirs of the disease.
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Three children from a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain have been admitted to hospital for medical checks after coming down with flu-like symptoms, a senior medical official said.
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The World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other international agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide
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ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- Helicopters from this US Navy aircraft carrier flew repeated relief missions along the nearby shoreline of Indonesia yesterday, delivering food, water, and medical supplies to thousands of survivors stranded along the western coast of Aceh Province after last week's devastating tsunamis.
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The first survivors from the coastal region of Meulaboh were airlifted yesterday to the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where they
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TORONTO (CP) - A nine-year-old boy from Afghanistan who came to Canada to have life-saving surgery was in critical condition after undergoing heart valve surgery Friday.
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Under a grove of pine and spruce trees, the children were lying on stretchers &#151; dazed, shaken, fragile, and bloodied. Parents hugged them tenderly, cried softly, gave them water. They were safe.
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In the wake of the tsunami, medical experts are flying out to South Asia to help local doctors monitor the spread of disease.
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DAVID, Panama, Dec. 26 -- A 12-year-old American girl, the sole survivor of a weekend plane crash, was aided by rescue workers for several hours through remote mountains and then airlifted to a Panamanian hospital where she was reunited Wednesday with anxious relatives.
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Pakistan and Afghanistan are to set up five checkposts on their common border to screen children for polio and give them vaccine drops in the hope of eliminating one of the world's last reservoirs of the disease.
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Parents are contacted by health experts after a childminder and four children in Cardiff are diagnosed with TB.
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Children who are treated at home for severe pneumonia do just as well as youngsters admitted to hospital, a finding that could be a boon for health care and medical costs in poor countries.
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U.S. soldiers helped rescue 24 abused and severely malnourished boys this month from a Baghdad orphanage, where they were found in conditions of appalling squalor, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Six Afghan family members, including two women and a child, were wounded, a local hospital head said on Sunday, after a military operation supported by Western air power in southern Afghanistan.
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So many Sri Lankan children have been orphaned by the tsunami that the government appealed on Sunday for doctors, psychologists and paediatricians to help give counselling.
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Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem.