Polio Not on Track for Worldwide Eradication
The World Health Organization and other groups have failed to eradicate polio, the waterborne paralytic disease that mostly strikes children under age 5, despite a $1 billion investment and several...
View ArticleReport: Unsafe Abortions Increasing, Total Abortions Decreasing Worldwide
The total number of worldwide abortions decreased between 1995 and 2008 to a rate of about 28 per 1,000 women, a new study has found, but nearly half of worldwide abortions in 2008 were deemed to be...
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U.S. Fares Poorly in Global Premature Birth Study
A global study of premature births has found that the U.S. ranks similarly to developing countries when it comes to women who give birth to premature babies. According to The New York Times, American...
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Study: Meeting Contraception Needs Worldwide Could Cut Maternal Deaths
A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has found that worldwide maternal deaths could drop by at least a third if steps were taken to meet the contraception needs of women in developing...
View ArticleDeadly Diarrhea Mostly Caused by Just 4 Germs
Four germs have been identified by a new study as the causes of severe–and often fatal–diarrhea in infants and children worldwide, leading researchers to call for better dissemination of the vaccine...
View ArticleU.S. Infant Mortality Rate Falls, But Only Slightly
Federal researchers announced this week that the American infant mortality rate, which is used as a way to judge our overall health, dropped in 2010, the last year it was measured. But the drop wasn’t...
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