In poor countries, spinal injury still means death
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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries.
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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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YINCHUAN, China -- Dependent on a rusty wheelchair and unable to control her muscles below her neck, Li Yan seemed destined for nothing more than a short life of pain and hopelessness.
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Why the impoverished Caribbean island has better medical care than its much wealthier neighbours.
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A lack of drugs adapted to the needs of children with HIV/AIDS means that many of them are dying needlessly, says the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
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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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Although Americans are spending more money than ever to treat spine problems, their backs are not getting any better.
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Christopher Reeve, who became an inspiration for people with spinal injuries, died on Sunday. He was 52.
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Many people are not being treated properly for a common illness that is a silent killer, a watchdog says.
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The death of Christopher Reeve illustrated something that those who live with paralysis know all too well: for quadriplegics, infection is Public Enemy No. 1.
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Patients with few options available at home in America say they are having some success with experimental treatments in China. People suffering from varied ailments such as spinal-cord injuries, Parkinson's or blindness turn to the internet to find stem-cell treatments. But Western doctors warn that medical tourists are serving as guinea pigs.
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Violence in Kenya, one of its most stable nations, shows that the continent's old ills--poverty, corruption, tribalism--are far from cured
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Undernutrition is to blame for 3.5 million deaths among children aged under five each year, but most of the fatalities occur in 20 countries, where targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem, researchers say.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...
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ALERE, Uganda -- Kasmiro Bongonyinge remembers sitting up suddenly in his bed. It was just after sunrise on a summer morning two years ago, and the old man, 87 years old and blind, knew something was wrong.
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A World Health Organisation study of healthcare in Africa says disease can only be tackled by urgent investment.
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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.