Word: infantability
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...jute field near the Indian border when they heard a Pakistani army patrol approaching. "Suddenly a six-month-old child in its mother's lap started crying," said the P.T.I, report. "Failing to make the child silent and apprehending that the refugees might be attacked, the woman throttled the infant to death...
...equal basis with men both as teachers and as graduate students. Sensibly, last week's Women's Caucus subordinated such specific, feminist aims in favor of such larger, humanistic goals as better housing and a national health-care system that might cut down America's infant mortality rate, now a shocking 14th among developed nations...
...blustery night nine months ago. The couple's first child had been stillborn, and both badly wanted a baby. But Garcia's nervousness turned to horror when he saw the boy that was to bear his name. Attached to the lower abdomen of the otherwise healthy, pretty infant was a football-shaped protuberance that carried a partially developed extra pair of legs...
...West Bengal's overflowing health centers, a 45-year-old rice farmer watched his infant son continue to suckle after his mother had died of cholera. "My wife is dead," the man said numbly. "Three of my children are dead. What else can happen?" With the refugees spreading through the Indian states, carrying the disease with them, the epidemic could rapidly afflict hundreds of thousands of Indians. For this reason, Indian authorities are trying to prevent the East Pakistanis from entering Calcutta, where uncounted millions already live on the streets in squalid conditions that guarantee an annual cholera epidemic...
...this vast expenditure, $324 per capita annually, does not ensure a high level of care. The rate of infant mortality is lower in twelve other industrial countries. Men in 17 other countries live longer than Americans do; women live longer in ten. Distribution of services is so spotty that more than 40 million people virtually never see a physician under any circumstances, and millions of others do so only after having been struck by serious illness. Soaring costs and the scarcity of practitioners and facilities in many areas have retarded the development of preventive medicine. Nationally, the U.S. does...