3991. Modern medicine tends to emphasize technical solutions Subject(s): Equipment and SuppliesWorld Health Organization
3992. The shadow of obesity hangs over this boy's childhood Subject(s): ChildWorld Health Organization
3993. This little Ghanaian child is one of the lucky ones - her mother was able to bring her to [the] hospital. Communicable diseases such as whooping cough and measles are reponsible for 30 per cent of certified deaths and 60 percent of hospital admissions in Ghana. But very few of the children who catch measles ever reach a hospital Subject(s): ChildWorld Health Organization
3994. Tetanus in the new-born child. Immunizing pregant women, proper care at birth, and clean handling of the umbilical cord can prevent such cases Subject(s): TetanusInfant, NewbornWorld Health Organization
3995. A throat operation kept alive this little Indonesian victim of diphtheria - still one of the lethal communicable diseases Subject(s): ChildWorld Health Organization
3996. Occupational therapists in the Philippines advising a mother on how to care for her son suffering from Down's syndrom. A UNCIEF project called "Reaching the Unreached" found that 21 percent of young children had various disabling impairments Subject(s): Health PersonnelChildWorld Health Organization
3997. A sturdy- looking six-year-old child of the Turkana. The scars on his abdomen testify to blood-letting rituals Subject(s): BloodlettingChildWorld Health Organization
3998. A research programme ... to determine the extent of rabies in specific areas Subject(s): Data CollectionNetherlands
3999. A patient being treated in a Sudanese hospital for sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by one ot the parasites whose life-cycles we need to understand better if we are to contol them Subject(s): InjectionsPhysiciansWorld Health Organization
4000. Victims of sleeping sickness in an institution in the French Cameroons Subject(s): World Health Organization