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		<title>CDC study: Drug deaths surpass traffic fatalities in 16 states</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stobbe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — In 16 states and counting, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday.

Experts said the startling shift reflects two opposite trends: Driving is becoming safer, and the legal and illegal use of powerful prescription painkillers is on the rise.
For decades, traffic accidents have been the biggest cause of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDC: Drug deaths surpassing traffic fatalities in more states; states affected double to 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stobbe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Drug-related deaths outnumber those from motor vehicle accidents in a growing number of states, according to new government data that highlight a shift in the top cause of deaths after disease and illness.

Crashes still cost more lives nationwide, but state-by-state calculations show the rate of drug-induced deaths outpaced vehicle accidents in 16 states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN report: Death rate for children under 5 still declining</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS — It is unacceptable that 8.8 million children die every year before their fifth birthday — 40 percent of them in India, Nigeria and Congo, the U.N. children&#8217;s agency said Thursday.

New data released by UNICEF and published online in The Lancet, a British medical journal, shows a continuing decline in the death rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty International says rural and Indian pregnant women in Peru get unequal health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Whalen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LIMA, Peru — Peru&#8217;s government doesn&#8217;t provide adequate care for pregnant women in the impoverished highlands and jungle, a failure reflected in one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the hemisphere, a human rights group said Thursday.

&#8220;Health services for pregnant women in Peru are like a lottery. If you are poor and indigenous, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian study: Alcohol to blame for half of Russian deaths in era following Soviet collapse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Birch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — A new study by an international team of public health researchers documents the devastating impact of alcohol abuse on Russia — showing that drinking caused more than half of deaths among Russians aged 15 to 54 in the turbulent era following the Soviet collapse.

The 52 percent figure compares to estimates that less than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROMISES, PROMISES: For many American Indians, free health care is a treaty promise not kept</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Mary Clare Jalonick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CROW AGENCY, Mont. — Ta&#8217;Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.

When Stephanie Little Light took her daughter to the Indian Health Service clinic in this wind-swept and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico&#8217;s caseload grows but no new deaths as flu-fighters seek answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 22:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Haven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials were cautiously optimistic Saturday that the worst of the swine flu epidemic is over for Mexico, with no new flu deaths reported overnight. But the virus keeps spreading around the world, with new cases confirmed in Europe and Asia, and some governments banning flights and preparing quarantines for travelers from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside flu-fighters&#8217; nerve center in Mexico, multinational science team seeks answers</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/inside-flu-fighters-nerve-center-in-mexico-multinational-science-team-seeks-answers-48874/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 15:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Haven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY — The leader of an international team helping Mexico face down the swine flu outbreak said it should soon learn whether the epidemic is really stabilizing in Mexico, but that many key questions about how the disease kills still need to be answered.

Dr. Steve Waterman, the head of a team from the Centers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flu presents challenge to scientists: How lethal is it and why so much deadlier in Mexico?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Stobbe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Mexico&#8217;s health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation&#8217;s swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous killer virus — and no experts are close to saying that. The secretary&#8217;s comment reflects how much remains [...]]]></description>
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