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RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina officials say the state's infant mortality Rate increased 5 percent in 2007, one year after falling to its lowest level in state history. ...

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More than 2 million children under the age of 5 are dying every year in India because of a lack of basic care despite the country's rapid economic growth, the United Nations said Tuesday. ...

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More than 2 million children under the age of 5 are dying every year in India because of a lack of basic care despite the country's rapid economic growth, the United Nations said Tuesday. ...

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Painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs are being prescribed to out-patients in high doses, without the oversight of a doctor. A new study found that in the last 20 years there has been a 500 percent increase in the Death Rate from medication errors made at home. ...

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Hundreds of thousands of voters in KwaZulu-Natal are unaccounted for, according to the provincial electoral office. ...

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A decades-long effort to reduce the number of North Carolina babies who die in infancy took a setback last year as the Death Rate rose 5 percent, state health officials reported Thursday. For every 1,000 babies born in North Carolina in 2007, more than eight died before they reached a year old. Many were born to poor mothers, and a disproportionate number were black, Hispanic or American Indian. The state's infant Death Rate for minorities was 13.9 deaths per 1,000 births, more than double the Rate for whites of about 6.3 deaths per 1,000 births. “Infant mortality and poor birth outcomes are part of a cycle,” said Dr. Leah Devlin, state health director. “They stem from a lack of opportunity and education, and poverty.” Too many young mothers, Devlin said, are overweight, do not exercise, smoke cigarettes and have chronic diseases that put their pregnancies in peril. As a result, she said, public health efforts must encourage women of childbearing age to take better care of themselves so that when they become pregnant their bodies are able to handle the extra stress. “We have not been able to create a culture in young women of being as healthy as possible going into pregnancy,” Devlin said. That problem is compounded because about half of all pregnancies in North Carolina are unintended, making it hard to target an audience. Still, health leaders have made some headway when they've focused money and effort on certain pregnancy and ...

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clipped by: cptenaud clipper's remarks: in an ambush, with four of them being captured and subsequently executed. Around the same time, Afghan insurgents launched a coordinated attack on a major U.S. base. The fatality Rate in Afghanistan during the past 10 weeks would be equivalent to 353 deaths in Iraq at the same time--a Rate not even seen during the bloody crescendo of 2007. This is a crisis. Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com by: Brandon Friedman Tue Aug 19 Afghanistan is now deadlier than Iraq ever was. When the Iraq War reached its deadliest peak during a 10-week period in April , May , and June of 2007, 308 coalition troops died. That was 1 out of every 575 troops on the ground at the time.* It was a terrible period in which even the most die-hard Bush supporters began to question the sense in continuing the occupation. By contrast, 105 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan during the past 10 weeks . But because there are only 52,700 troops in Afghanistan, this represents 1 out of every 502 troops on the ground. The war in Iraq--at its most violent peak--was never as dangerous for our troops as Afghanistan now is. In the past 10 weeks, three American soldiers have been captured, killed, and chopped up . Nine American soldiers were killed in a single instance when their outpost was overrun by Taliban militants. And today, the violence only intensified: 10 French soldiers were slaughtered Tags: taliban , iraq , casualties , afghan ...

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Taking a simple once-daily capsule of fish oil improves survival prospects for patients with heart failure, results of a major clinical study showed ...

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USA Today has produced a database on its website with the government’s best estimates of heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia Death rates for every U.S. hospital for two years. ...

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Source: www.fiercehealthcare.com --- 17 days ago
For a long time, hospital-specific Death rates were secrets. Administrators argued that publishing such rates was unfair, as it would be easy to make unfair comparisons if rates weren't adjusted properly for acuity. That being said, CMS has essentially taken things out of their hands. The agency has made estimates by specific hospital and posted that information on its quality website, hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. The data offers comparisons of performance on more than two dozen measures, including Death rates for pneumonia, heart attacks and heart failure. The formula used to calculate Death rates captures all deaths among 35 million Medicare beneficiaries occurring within 30 days of the patients' hospital admission. The formula took into account the hospital's patient mix and how many deaths would be expected in those populations. While the data is more specific than it has been in the past, it's still using somewhat conservative measures, critics say. The Death Rate scoring ends up rating the majority of hospitals as average, which doesn't do much to guide employers or consumers in their health purchasing decisions. However, the new measures have little to complain about, others say. To learn more about the ratings: - read this USA Today article Related Articles: CMS to publish cardiac Death rates, but carefully MA officials question high hospital Death rates CMS to post hospital heart attack care data ...

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A new study shows African American babies in Kansas are almost twice as likely to die than white or hispanic babies. ...

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A multitude of diseases caused the Death of people living in Mumbai ...

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Child mortality rates are lagging in a number of Pacific Island states, according to a just released UNICEF report. The State of Asia-Pacific’s Children... ...

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