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Tuberculosis patients in Alem Kitmama, Ethiopia.

Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government is hoping for international funds so more women can give birth safely in hospitals.

Treatment with vitamin D reduced the size of uterine fibroids in laboratory rats predisposed to developing the benign tumors, reported researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Birth and fertility rates: United States, final 2005–2009 and provisional June 2010, December 2010, and June 2011

NOTES: Monthly provisional number of births and fertility rates for June 2010, December 2010, and June 2011 are based on 12 months of provisional counts ending with the specified month. Rates are based on population estimates based on the 2000 census.

The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World.

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 diseases. Sodium intake has a huge impact on our health.

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The United Nations health agency is calling on all Afghans to vaccinate their children after a recent measles outbreak that has been made worse by severe weather that hampers access to immediate treatment as well as low immunization coverage.

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.

Mia Farrow gives a boy a dose of oral polio vaccine at an immunisation site in Moundou, Chad.

Many livestock groups say there's no evidence that antibiotics in livestock feed have caused a human health problem, but researchers beg to differ.