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- Testing urine for sugar is a serious business for the young campers at Camp Glyndon, Maryland1
- The Japanese have the greatest respect for the next man's health1
- The apathy and sadness of malnutrition. This girl in a hospital in Jordan is suffering from a severe protien- calorie deficiency1
- The cells in our body have learned to work as a team, and the strength of the team depends upon collaboration between it individual units. These Bavarian schoolboys are al diabetics1
- The desperate face of starvation. Emergency rehydration may just save this little boy's life in a Bangladesh hospital. But when coupled with chronic malnutrition, acute diarrhoeal dieases are child-killers1
- The doctor takes throat swabs for laboratory examination1
- The epidemic attacks mainly children and young people1
- The last case of smallpox on the Asian sub-continent, discovered on 16 October 1975, was a little girl living in Bangladesh. This was also the last known case of the more virulent form of smallpo, variola major1
- The saga of trachoma is a sad tale of dirt, dust, warm climates and flies1
- The saga of trachoma is a sad tale of warm climates, dirt, dust and flies1
- The shadow of obesity hangs over this boy's childhood1
- The world's children: on a Korean rubbish heap1
- The world's children; in a hospital in Tunis1
- This child was treated with insulin in 1922 by Frederick Banting and Charles Best, who a year earlier first isolated the insulin hormone for use in diabetic therapy. Only two months separate the "before" and "after" pictures1
- 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 hospital1
- This little boy is having an eye check-up which should ensure that any threat to his sight is recognized in time and prevented. Many thousands of less fortunate children go blind unnecessarily every year for want of simple precautions or low-cost treatment1
- This man being led through a village in Upper Volta is blind as a result of river blindness - onchocerciasis - and nearly 60 per cent of the people in his village suffer from this disease1
- This school girl is at home with a sore throat and the doctor checks her heart1
- This young Indian girl's face reflects the suffering caused by trachoma. Some two million are estimated to be blinf as a reuslt of this eye disease1
- To spend a lifetime in the dark- like this little Indonesian child- is tragedy enough. Even more shocking is the fact that this blindness is unnecessary and preventable1