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Infant Mortality

You Can't Say "Sorry" When Millions Die from Your Mistake

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Climate Change, Hannity, Renewable Energy, Glenn Beck, Health Care, Limbaugh, Bachmann, Department of Education, Health Care Reform, H1N1 Vaccine, Infant Mortality, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Cheney castigates President Obama for "dithering" because the president does not rush into sending young men and women to their deaths for no reason. Yet to dither on climate change is divine.

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A Solution For Infant Mortality? Christian Organization Emphasizes Its Child Survival Program

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Literacy, Psas, Illiteracy, Psa, Child Survival Program, Breast Feeding, Adult Literacy, Immunization, Compassion, Infant Mortality, Impact News

The Christian Organization Compassion aims to use its influence and funds to "release children from poverty." Their latest campaign, the Child Surviva...

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Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language

Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: 1984, Pentagon, Malawi, Afghanistan, Doublespeak, Vietnam War, Christian, Collateral Damage, George Orwell, Fertilizer, Jewish, Climate Change, Elizabeth, New Labor, Muslim, Richard Dawkins, Queen Elizabeth, Infant Mortality, Global Warming, World News
Johann Hari

The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.

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Lyme/Autism Group Blasts Genetically Modified Foods as Dangerous

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Seeds of Deception, Roundup Ready, Roundup, Infertility, Safety Test, Toxin, LIA Foundation, Lyme Induced Autism Foundation, Patient Advocacy, Liberty Herbicide, Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, Soy, Allergy, Shopping Guide, Digestive Disorders, Amy Dean, Cancer, Infant Mortality, Environmental Toxin, Genetic Engineering, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Sterility, Genetically Modified Foods, Corn, Genetically Engineered Foods, Carcinogens, Reproductive Problems, Inflammation, Immune System, Rbst, Beneficial Bacteria, Arpad Pusztai, GE Crops, Gmos, Autistic Spectrum, Bt, Institute for Responsible Technology, Kimberly Wilcox, Liberty Link, Rbgh, Gut Flora, Genetic Roulette, Gmo, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, Livestock Disease, Dna, Fraternal Twins, Fda, Side Effects, Immune Reaction, World Health Organization, Autism Relief Foundation, Food Allergies, Herbicide-Tolerant, Lyme Disease, Jannelle Love, Animal Feeding Studies, Genetically Modified Organisms, Igf-1, Soy Allergies, GM Crops, Autism, GE Foods, Bovine Growth Hormone, Non-GMO Shopping Guide, GM Foods, Allergies, Aaem, Non-Gmo, Bt-Toxin, Living News
Jeffrey Smith

Stop eating dangerous genetically modified foods! That's the upshot of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position paper released today.

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Can the BPA Consumer Revolt Trump K Street?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Bisphenol A, Food Contamination, FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, Water Bottles, Baby Formula, Dangers of Bpa, FDA Ban BPA, Infants, Chemical Infant Formula, Bpa Petition, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bpa Plastic, Nalgene-Bpa, Infant Mortality, Green News
Elaine Shannon

Don't underestimate the power of a consumer revolt. In this economy, who can afford major customer losses?

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Unfair Children's Health Disparities: More Reason for Reform

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disparities, Children's Health Care, Children, Health Care, Bobby Rush, Low Birthweight, Health Care Reform, Rush Amendments, US Infant Mortality, Infant Mortality, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Right now, we live in a nation where children of color experience significant health disparities that begin before birth and follow them throughout their lives.

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For the Health of the Nation: Ensure a Public Option

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: The New Yorker, Public Option, President Barack Obama, Canada, United Steelworkers, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Kaiser Family Foundation, Republican, Tommy Douglas, Dr. Atul Gawande, Kiefer Sutherland, Single Payer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Universal Health Care, American Medical Association, Pre-Existing Conditions, New England Journal of Medicine, World Health Organization, Life Expectancy, Health Care, National Health Care, Infant Mortality, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The last time the World Health Organization stacked up countries' health systems, the United States came in 37th, behind Chile, Morocco, Cyprus and even drug war-torn Colombia.

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The Inconvenient Truths (For Both Sides) About Late Term Abortions

Steven Waldman | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Late Term Abortion Stories, Infant Mortality, Abortion Doctor, Partial Birth Abortion, George Tiller, Living News
Steven Waldman

How many of the late term cases are mercy killings? How many relate to babies that would survive but in an impaired state (i.e. Downs Syndrome)? And how many were more casual "change of mind" cases?

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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Keep the Mothers in Mother's Day

CARE | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: Maternal Death, Peru, Mother's Day, Infant Mortality, World News
CARE

With a firm commitment and action from world leaders, the crisis of maternal mortality can go the way of polio -- phased out village by village until it's all but unheard of anywhere in the world.

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Leading the Way to Make Mothers Day Every Day

Donna E. Shalala | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Developing Countries, Countdown to Mother's Day, Newborns, Mother's Day, Health, Newborn Health, Maternal Health, Healthcare, Infant Mortality, Health in Developing Countries, Maternal Mortality, Mothers Day Every Day Campaign, Living News
Donna E. Shalala

Progress is being made to save the lives of mothers and newborns around the world. Still, every minute, a woman dies of complications in pregnancy and childbirth.

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Leading Healthcare Change: No Room for Politics as Usual

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Child Mortality, Women, Women Mortality Rate, Pregnancy, Health Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Tom Daschle Health Care, Barack Obama, Women's Healthcare, Insurance, Women's Health, Pregnant Women, Obama's Cabinet, Tom Daschle, Secretary of Energy, Medicaid, Medicare, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Healthcare, Infant Mortality, Sick Children, Politics News
Dr. Peter Klatsky

We are facing incredibly difficult decisions, but policies implemented today will help us to live healthier, longer lives, while also saving billions of dollars.

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Our Greatest Health Success -- and a Challenge

Roy M. Pitkin | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Health, Infanticide, Health, Infant Mortality, Living News
Roy M. Pitkin

The 20th century brought many, many improvements in health. But by far the most remarkable was the incredible increase in the safety of childbearing.

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Will Genetically Modified Foods Make You Sick?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Irina Ermakova, Monsanto, Genetically Engineered, Bt, Health, Morbidity, Food, Food Safety, Fertility, Animal Feeding Study, Genetically Modified, Infant Mortality, Genetic Engineering, Gmo, Green News
Jeffrey Smith

Two new government studies, published within days of each other, point to disturbing health hazards of genetically modified foods.

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Infant Mortality -- and Abortion: A U.S. Scandal

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Health Care, Health, Infant Mortality, Family, Politics News
Peter Clothier

Given the advanced state of our medical knowledge and the technology at our disposal, infant mortality is also a choice we make, as a society. What moral universe do we live in, that we permit ourselves to do this?

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US Among Worst In World In Infant Mortality

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: U.S., America, Infant Mortality, Living News

The rate at which infants die in the United States has dropped substantially over the past half-century, but broad disparities remain among racial gro...

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