Mammogram debate: Swedish study refutes US advice, says screening lowers death risk in 40s

New mammogram study stirs debate for women in 40s

Mammograms offer modest benefit to women over 50, new study finds

Study finds mammograms offer modest benefit

UK’s breast cancer death rates dropped the most in Europe, but better records still needed

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EU population passes half-billion mark thanks to immigration, as birth rate falls

Immigrants drive EU population beyond half-billion

Panama first lady raising money to deliver medical supplies to homeland’s indigenous people

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Swaziland study shows death rate has doubled in African kingdom with world’s highest HIV rate

Study shows mounting AIDS toll in Swaziland

Child mortality rates up in 6 African nations despite UN Millennium Development Goals push

Child mortality rates up in Africa despite UN push

Correction: Mississippi health house story

Correction: Mississippi health house story

Dirt-poor Mississippi Delta finds rural health care model in Iran, where far fewer infants die

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Study: Adult death rates lowest in Iceland and Cyprus, highest in Swaziland and Zambia

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Sierra Leone offers free health care to mothers and children to offset high mortality rates

Sierra Leone: free health care to mother and child

CDC: Swine flu death rate in American Indians and Alaska natives 4 times higher

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Premature births most to blame for high US infant mortality rate, government says

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Reports: Critical illness may occur rapidly in sickest swine flu patients in Canada and Mexico

Sickest swine flu cases in Canada, Mexico detailed

CHICAGO — Rapidly worsening breathing problems in the sickest swine flu patients in Mexico and Canada present a scary worst-case scenario and could foreshadow what U.S. doctors face as winter flu season sets in, new reports suggest.

UN report says Russia could face labor shortages, slowing economic growth as population falls

UN: Russia must adapt to shrinking population

MOSCOW — Russia’s population has fallen by 6.6 million since 1993, despite the influx of millions of immigrants, a United Nations report said Monday, and by 2025 the country could lose a further 11 million people.

Fight against blindness in Ethiopia also may prevent some childhood deaths, study suggests

Fighting blindness may prevent deaths in Ethiopia

CHICAGO — An antibiotic widely used in Africa to treat eyesight-robbing infections seems to help prevent Ethiopian children from dying of other diseases. A study in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association suggests an unintended benefit from efforts to wipe out trachoma, the world’s leading preventable cause of blindness.
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