U.S. Recent Trends in Births and Fertility Rates Through June 2011
Birth and fertility rates: United States, final 2005–2009 and provisional June 2010, December 2010, and June 2011
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UNICEF: Hundreds of Millions of City Children Lack Vital Services
The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World.
Lowering Sodium Is a Key to Better Health
Nine out of 10 Americans eat more sodium than is recommended for a healthy diet. Too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure, which in turn can lead to heart disease and stroke. Nearly 800,000 people die each year from these and other vascular...
UN agency urges vaccinations for all Afghan children after measles outbreak
Photo: WHO
The United Nations health agency is calling on all Afghans to vaccinate their...
Can Gardening Help Troubled Minds Heal?
If you haven't noticed, gardens are popping up in some unconventional places – from prison yards to retirement and veteran homes to programs for troubled youth.
Actress Mia Farrow launches UN-backed polio vaccination campaign in Chad
Mia Farrow gives a boy a dose of oral polio vaccine at an immunisation site in Moundou, Chad.
How Using Antibiotics In Animal Feed Creates Superbugs
Many livestock groups say there's no evidence that antibiotics in livestock feed have caused a human health problem, but researchers beg...
Lights, Action, Drinking: Movie Scenes Tempt Teens To Binge
At the movies, life looks like the The Hangover, Part II — the wild and funny part, not the so-sick-you-wish-you-could-die-and-get-it-over-with part.
Does Tylenol Worsen Asthma For Kids?
Dr. John McBride examines 9-month-old Martez after his mother, Ceasha Moorer, brought him in...
NIGERIA: Calls for more action on child lead poisoning
UN experts take water samples from lead poisoning site
