Emergency Birth Training Curbs Infant Mortality Responding immediately when newborns fail to breathe in the critical moments after birth could dramatically cut the number of infant deaths worldwide. That's the focus of a new training program for mate...
You can do more than get by with a little help from your friends they might just save your life.A study has found that those surrounded by family and friends are 50 per cent less likely to die early than those with no social life.Socially-connected p...
Here in the United States, the rate of obesity doubled over a span of 16 years. Americans continue to gain weight and it's having a negative impact on their quality of life, according to a new report. Poor eating habits and a lack of exercise are two...
Scientists race against time to train people to de-oil birds Nathan King | Dauphin Island, Alabama 19 May 2010 As oil from that major spill in the Gulf of Mexico reaches land, scientists are in a race against time. Just off the Alabama coast, on Daup...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study examines and compares adult death rates worldwide over the last forty years. For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death befo...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 07 May 2007 While hospitals and doctors in Africa are few and far between, in the impoverished West African country of Mali, the government takes health care to remote villages, by way of little mopeds. A system of so-called m...
By Tendai Maphosa Harare 25 October 2006 Silver Packry, right, feeds one of her children while her mother, left, looks on in Harare, October 17, 2006 Child mortality is on the increase in Zimbabwe, according to the country's health minister. Health...