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Calling on Kids of Investment Bankers, for Kids Who Aren't

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: Wall Street Bonuses, Charity, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Horace Mann, Dalton, Bill Gates, Save the Children, Vaccines, Pneumonia and Diarrhea, Gavi, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

If you're at a school where your parents and your parents' friends might be investment bankers, ask them this week if they have ever considered investing in the life of a child in the developing world.

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Parliamentarians for Pneumonia

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Carol Shea-Porter, Gordon Brown, Bill Frist, Des Turner, Pneumonia, Bangladesh, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Pneumococcal Vaccine, Treatment, GAVI Alliance, Save the Children, Child Survival, Vaccines, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

More importantly than events in Washington and London, for the first time ever, parliaments in developing countries, where the bulk of pneumonia deaths occur, were active locally on World Pneumonia Day.

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First-Ever World Pneumonia Day: How You Can Fight This Curable Killer

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact

Read More: World Pneumonia Day, Save the Children, Global Problem, Pneumonia Quiz, Global Coalition Against Pneumonia, Pneumonia, Impact News

Today, Nov. 2, 2009 marks the first-ever World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia remains one of the largest killers in developing world-- claiming more victims...

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Pneumonia: Why Do We Let It Get Away With This Much?

Karl Hofmann | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Pneumonia, World Pneumonia Day, Global Health, Health, Child Survival, World News
Karl Hofmann

Did you know there was a "World Pneumonia Day"? It may not sound very exciting, but the toll this treatable disease takes on children around the world should make you sit up and take note.

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First Ever World Pneumonia Day. Nov. 2

Dr. Pat Hibberd | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Wellness, H1N1 Virus, Pneumonia, Personal Health, Swine Flu, H1N1 Influenza, Flu, Health Care, H1n1, Flu Season, Living News
Dr. Pat Hibberd

Pneumonia is the number one killer of children under age five around the world. It is so prevalent that the first World Pneumonia Day will establish a global call for action to tackle childhood pneumonia head on.

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From Chewing Gum To Chocolate: 76 Innovations To Improve Global Health Backed By Gates Foundation

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Globalgiving, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Developing World, Developing Countries, Pneumonia, World Health, Malaria, Bill Gates, Global Poverty, Tuberculosis, Living News

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding 76 projects using innovative ideas from chewing gum to chocolate to improve global health, and that of ...

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Are You Smarter than the World's Global Health Donors?

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates, Global Health, Pneumonia, World Pneumonia Day, Nicholas Kristof, GAVI Alliance, Best Shot Foundation, Save the Children, Orin Levine, Pneumoadip, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

Pneumonia is so poorly recognized that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called it "The killer no one suspects" and UNICEF dubbed it "the forgotten killer of children."

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The Low Hanging Fruit of Pandemic Flu Prevention

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Centers for Disease Control, Cdc, Prevention, Pneumonia, Swine Flu, Pneumococcal Vaccine, H1n1, Vaccines, Politics News
Dr. Orin Levine

While you go out to get your flu vaccines check to see if you should also get the pneumococcal vaccine, and think about how you might help give access to these vaccines to millions of children who need them.

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A Goodbye to a Girl's Best Friend

Lora Somoza | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Mourning, Saying Goodbye, Pets, Pneumonia, Love, Dogs, Death, Living News
Lora Somoza

A lot of people tell me that Sophie won the lotto with me, or that I took great care of her. But the truth is, she took the greatest care of me.

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China Pneumonic Plague: Town Of 10,000 Is Sealed Off In Qinghai Province

BBC News | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: China Quarantine, Pneumonia, Health, China Pneumonic Plague, China Tibet, China, China Pneumonia, Xinghai, World News

A second man has died of pneumonic plague in a remote part of north-west China where a town of more than 10,000 people has been sealed off....

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Don't Risk Going Unvaccinated

Paul A. Offit, MD | Posted 02.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Sickness, Measles, World, Children, Multiple Sclerosis, United States, Dehydration, Death, Vaccines, Polio, Us Measles Cases Rising, Pneumonia, Chemotherapy, Us Measles Cases, Health, Disease, Romania, Asthma, Autism, Epidemic, Vaccine, Cancer, Autism Vaccines, Diabetes, Children's Health, Allergies, Living News
Paul A. Offit, MD

If parents choose not to vaccinate their children, not only do they put their own children at risk, they put others at risk as well.

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Simple Economics, Complicated Medicine

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Economics, Pneumonia, Health Reform, Health Care, Health, Medicine and Doctor Performance, Antibiotics, Hospitals, Emericgency Room, Business News
Peter A. Ubel

Overuse of antibiotics leads not only to antibiotic resistance, but also creates potentially life-threatening side effects.

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Bernie Mac Hospitalized With Pneumonia

AP | Posted 08.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bernie Mac, Pneumonia, Bernie Mac Pneumonia, Entertainment News

CHICAGO — Bernie Mac is in a Chicago hospital with pneumonia. His publicist, Danica Smith, says in a statement that the 50-year-old comedian is...

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Study: Congo Fighting Causes 45,000 Deaths A Month

The Guardian | Chris McGreal | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Starvation, Congolese Children, Diarrhoea, Congo War, Congo Children Killed War, Pneumonia, Malaria, International Rescue Committee Study, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Politics News

The effects of a decade of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo is continuing to kill about 45,000 people each month - half of them small chil...

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