Iraq War Is Public Health Disaster - Report
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War in Iraq has caused a public health disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a report released Tuesday.
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where public health systems, already weak, are now overwhelmed. &quot;There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable
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Conducted jointly by the Iraqi government and the World Health Organization, its finding is lower than the 600,000 arrived at by John Hopkins University.
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More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain's leading polling groups.
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More than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme effects of poverty, war and HIV/Aids, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, according to a report published today.
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Deaths of Iraqis have soared to 100,000  above normal since the Iraq war mainly due violence and many of  the victims have been women and children, public health experts  from the United States said Thursday.
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About 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of their country, according to World Health Organization (WHO) research published on Wednesday.
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Today, the Lancet medical journal published a report which concludes that 100,000 civilians died in the US-led invasion of Iraq. This is an incredibly high estimate, and at first may seem too farfetched not to be propaganda. But it cannot easily be dismissed. The report's authors are researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The Lancet is a highly-respected, peer-reviewed publication. The report appears to be a serious academic attempt to study the public health consequences of the invasion.  Also, The New Republic magazine has conducted an interview with Prof. Gilbert Burnham, the report's main author.   Excerpts and comments below.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the government would study &quot;in a very serious way&quot; a report that around 100,000 civilians in Iraq had died as a result of the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
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The situation in Iraq is perilous, with Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence surpassing al Qaeda as the most immediate threat to U.S. goals, according to a long-awaited intelligence report, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Parties opposed to the war in Iraq have seized on a new study that claims at least 100,000 civilians have died as a result of the action and its aftermath.
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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward. Last week, UNICEF announced what it described as a "major public health success": child deaths dropped to a record low of 9.7 million worldwide in 2005.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Health officials in northern Iraq are treating nearly 4,000 suspected cases of cholera and eight people have died so far, the health minister for Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said on Wednesday.
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Most of the health problems reported  after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks have involved respiratory  difficulties and mental distress, according to a U.S.  government report published on Wednesday.
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Iraqis walk among buildings damaged by an air strike in Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004. The Iraqi government Sunday declared a state of emergency for 60 days throughout the country except for Kurdish
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 21 -- An outbreak of cholera has spread from northern Iraq to Baghdad, infecting at least 1,500 people, the World Health Organization announced Friday.
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An independent inquiry has concluded thousands of Gulf War veterans were made ill by their service.