Bangladesh began immunizing children with a new combination vaccine Thursday that will protect against some severe forms of pneumonia, meningitis and four other deadly diseases, the United Nations said. The vaccine is being provided under the South Asian country's routine immunization campaign for the nearly four million children born every year, the U. N. Children's Fund said in ...

Girls who give birth before the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s, the U.N. said Thursday, focusing its annual children's survey on the health of their mothers. Every year, 70,000 women between the ages of ...

Girls who give birth before the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s, the U.N. said Thursday, focusing its annual children's survey on the health of their mothers. Every year, 70,000 women between ...

From December 2007 through October 2008, there were nine emergency medical helicopter crashes resulting in 35 deaths. The nine crashes: _ Dec. 3, 2007: A helicopter operated under contract for Providence Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, crashed into the ocean three miles east of Whittier, Alaska, in poor weather and visibility conditions. Of the four persons on board, only one body ...