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Woman Rallies to Raise $475K For Disabled Mugging Victim Too Scared to Return Home
A 21-year-old beautician was so upset last week after hearing about a disabled elderly man injured in a mugging that she started an online...
Measle Deaths Down 78 Percent
Deaths from measles have dropped 78 percent since 2000 as global vaccination campaigns curb outbreaks of the pneumonia-causing disease, according to the World Health...
Former Cowboy Flying Free Health Care to Those in Need
Several decades ago, Stan Brock nearly died when a horse kicked him in the head, while working on a ranch in the middle of...
Program Vaccinates One Billion Children
The Measles Initiative this week announced it has vaccinated one billion children in more than 60 developing countries, making significant gains in the global...
New Vaccine Could Prevent Breast Cancer
Imagine a vaccine for adult women that would prevent breast cancer, just like the vaccines received as children prevented polio. Cleveland Clinic researchers have...
Time Calls it “The Decade From Hell”… NOT!
Time magazine named this "The Decade From Hell". The sensationalist headline ignores all the good things that happened, so we, at the Good News...
Global Child Mortality Continues to Drop
UNICEF this week released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in 2008....
Stroke Cures Man’s Failing Sight
A grandfather has described how a massive stroke "miraculously" cured his failing sight. Malcolm Darby, 70, of Oakham, Rutland, had worn glasses...
Good News: Swine Flu Vaccine Supplies Increase
Hopeful news in the battle against the H1N1 swine flu emerged Thursday as European and Chinese researchers said they have developed swine flu vaccines...
Child Deaths Worldwide Drop by 28 Percent Over Seven Years
Deaths of children under five years of age have plummeted by almost one third since 1990, the United Nations World Health Organization said yesterday....
Progress Being Made on Many Fronts, Says UN Health Agency
Progress in many areas of public health are a cause for optimism said the head of WHO, the UN's World Health Organization, this week....
Child Mortality Falls to Record Low Worldwide
Thanks mainly to campaigns to combat measles and malaria and promote breast-feeding, child deaths worldwide have reached a record low, falling below 10 million...