Child death reforms welcomed
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Calls for sweeping changes to investigations into sudden infant deaths have been welcomed by commentators.
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MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of childrens lives could be saved by a coordinated global effort to improve nutrition and provide clean water, better sanitation and cleaner household fuels in underdeveloped countries, a new study finds.
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The New Jersey child advocate said a new report detailing the deaths of a dozen children in the state should give political leaders the desire to &quot;fix this system once and for all.
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Undernutrition causes more than a third  of child deaths worldwide, but simple programs like promoting  breastfeeding and providing supplements could keep some of  those children alive, experts said on Thursday.
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The government must improve the way it supports victims of child trafficking, a children's charity says.
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Doctors in the Netherlands call for new laws allowing the mercy killing of newborn babies under certain conditions.
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Government plans to improve the way access to children is handled after couples divorce in England and Wales will be published today. Send your views.
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In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before age 5. In Iraq, one in 10 does not make it to a fifth birthday. Across the globe, poor care for newborns, malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and measles snuff out lives of the very young, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
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Global efforts to promote childhood immunization, breast-feeding and anti-malaria measures have helped cut by nearly a quarter the death rate of children under age 5 since 1990, UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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Using insecticide-treated bednets can nearly halve deaths from malaria among children aged under five, according to a study in Kenya published in Saturday&#39;s Lancet.
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The results of a new study suggest that doctors should take preventive action to treat some children for heart disease.
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Cambodia has made significant gains in improving the health of its children in the last five years, the UN children's agency said.
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The public is being asked to help the government come up with a 10-year plan to improve children's lives.
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Children are entitled to a childhood and parents need help to realise this right, the Conservatives say.
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Major reform of the way sudden infant deaths are investigated has been demanded in efforts to prevent parents being wrongly accused of killing their own babies.
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Children must be at the forefront of efforts to prevent heart disease, health agencies said as they accused governments of neglecting the 17 million deaths from cardiovascular illness a year.
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About one million cribs designed by Simplicity for Children have been recalled after the suffocation deaths of at least two children, the government said today.