Posts Tagged ‘world’

Global jump in swine flu deaths

Friday, October 30, 2009 14:21 Comments Off

The number of swine flu deaths reported worldwide jumps by 700 in a week, latest World Health Organization figures reveal.

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Call to act on maternal mortality

Monday, October 26, 2009 16:27 Comments Off

Health ministers from around the world say swift action must be taken to reduce global maternal mortality rates.

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Tourette’s trauma

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:05 Comments Off

How grief at best friend’s death left man with syndrome

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Move to cut child diarrhoea death

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:05 Comments Off

An international initiative has been launched to cut the number of children who die from diarrhoea around the world.

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The 5 Minute Decision that Saved the World in 1983

Saturday, October 10, 2009 22:14 Comments Off

Written by Gimundo Ever heard of Stanislav Petrov? Probably not—but you may very well owe him your life

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Aid group in child mortality plea

Monday, October 5, 2009 2:33 Comments Off

Child deaths around the world could be dramatically reduced with a relatively small investment, Save the Children says.

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Many more receiving HIV therapy

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:19 Comments Off

Falling prices and increased testing have led to a marked rise in the number of people in the poorest parts of the world receiving treatment for HIV.

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September 11, 2001 As Seen From Space

Friday, September 11, 2009 15:36 1 Comment

Collected by Internet Pop Culture We’ve seen so many shocking and startling images of 9/11 from the perspective of people on the ground but what did that terrible day look like from space? As you will see from the following photos the chaos taking place in lower Manhattan was very visible from more than 250 miles above Earth inside the International Space Station. View of the World Trade Center days later from the North.

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Child mortality drop ‘too slow’

Thursday, September 10, 2009 19:17 Comments Off

Mortality rates among the world’s under-fives continue to fall but the UN children’s agency Unicef says the decline is too slow.

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China approves swine flu vaccine

Sunday, September 6, 2009 22:59 Comments Off

Chinese health authorities approve a vaccine that they say prevents swine flu with a single dose.

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