Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...declined dramatically" over the past two to three years. Physicians fear that deteriorating sanitary conditions will bring back dysentery and typhoid, since soap and detergents are in short supply, as is chlorine to treat the water supply. The incidence of hepatitis A and diarrhea is on the rise, and infant tuberculosis is a growing problem in poor sections of Havana...
Ensconced in the hospital's cardiothoracic intensive-care unit, the infant recovered quickly from the 5 1/2-hour operation that separated her from her twin. One week later doctors removed the breathing tube that connected her to a respirator. But since her lungs were still weak from surgery and congenital problems, they placed her in a negative-pressure ventilator. The cylindrical device works like an iron lung, enclosing the body from the neck down in a vacuum, so that air flows through the nose and mouth and into the lungs without the effort of inhalation. Over the next months, Angela...
...Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders. The government's official stance on the long-running tummy-vs.-back debate contradicts the most common advice given by pediatricians. But the Surgeon General's call is supported by recent research that has shown a decrease in the number of cases of sudden-infant-death syndrome (SIDS) in countries where parents were urged to keep their kids on their sides or back. In the U.S., SIDS cases number 6,000 annually. Child-care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock told TIME Daily that the conventional wisdom on this issue has frequently flip-flopped over the years. Advice...
...them the idea that the old limits no longer apply. So argues Vanderbilt University anthropologist Virginia Abernethy and a growing cohort of critics. In Kenya, for instance, total fertility rose from 7.5 live births per woman in the mid-1950s to 8.12 in the 1960s and '70s even as infant mortality declined and incomes rose...
...often show a dramatic drop in their birthrate not because of prosperity but because of a decrease in people's sense of well-being. For instance, a study of Nigerian communities revealed that bad economic times in recent years caused young Yoruba families to turn to contraception even though infant mortality was rising -- a development that directly contradicts conventional wisdom about the demographic transition...