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...cost of a course of zinc: about 25?. With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, an ICDDR program now aims to provide zinc tablets to every child under 5 in Bangladesh. Vaccines also hold promise for preventing some types of diarrhea. The most common cause of diarrhea in children is rotavirus, which leads to severe, watery diarrhea. Researchers believe it infects almost every child in the world by age 5 and kills 600,000 of them a year in poor countries. (Children who contract the virus in rich countries...
...that breast cancer isn't the problem it once was," says Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition. "That's not the right message. We may have raised awareness, but incidence rates are higher than they were 30 years ago. We don't know how to prevent or cure the disease, and more than 40,000 women still die every year." Visco is worried that donors will feel they have done their bit by buying pink. What's more vital, in her view, is keeping pressure on the Federal Government to adequately support the biggest U.S. funder...
...pales in comparison to Dawson’s record-breaking numbers.“You can’t stop Clifton Dawson. He’s a great back,” Knowles said. “You only hope to contain him and try to prevent the big play.”Despite the tailback’s dynamic start to the season, Murphy sees a need for improvement in the rush attack in order to defeat the Big Red.“We have got to run the football dramatically better than we have in the past against...
...Next week, the White House will convene a summit on the shootings. We hope that not every seminar will be about security cameras, intruder training and violent video games. Pretending we can prevent these bizarre events isn?t very reassuring right now. We hope equal time is given to the alternative ways of coping, with right and wrong left out of the room...
...will never have perfect systems that can prevent every conceivable act of violence in the nation's vast network of schools. But we can reduce the chances of the next Columbine or Nickel Mines by taking some basic actions now. And if these actions help discourage some terror organization from planning an American Beslan, all the better...