Broadcast: Apr 07 2003 The World Health Organization, is calling for urgent international action to prevent millions of children from dying every year as a result of environmental hazards. The WHO is...
Broadcast: Mar 28 2003 United Nations health officials are concerned about the outbreak of disease from poor water and 1) sanitation conditions in Iraq if the war 2) drags on. But so far, they say, co...
Broadcast: Mar 27, 2003 When Iraqi soldiers retreated from Kuwait during the first Gulf War in 1991, they set fire to 600 oil wells. Towering pillars of fire and columns of smoke vented from the wells...
Broadcast: Jan 28 2003 The number of malnourished Australian aboriginal children has risen sharply. At Royal Darwin Hospital, statistics show a 25 percent increase in children 3) diagnosed with malnut...
Global Water Outlook 2025: Averting an Impending Crisis, uses 1) sophisticated computer modeling to project how water demand and availability around the world are likely to evolve. The report includes...
Broadcast: Jan 18, 2003 Japan's Emperor Akihito has undergone surgery for prostate cancer. His surgeons say the 2) prognosis for a full recovery look good. Doctors who performed the procedure Saturday...
Broadcast: Jan 14, 2003 Twins girls who were born joined at the head have gone home to Guatemala, five months after surgery to separate them. The 2) prognosis for both is good. Wearing 3) tiaras ove...
Broadcast: Jan 11,2003 Walk into the lobby of Box Butte General, and the first thing you see is a life-sized cardboard display featuring the medical facility's four male nurses and information brochur...
Broadcast: Jan 11 2003 U.S. and African officials meet next week (13-17 January) in 1) Mauritius for a conference on expanding U.S.-African trade. AIDS activists say the meeting will be meaningless wi...
Broadcast: Jan 10 2003 The Pentagon has issued a statement 2) asserting the military is prepared to protect its personnel from possible biological weapons attack. On the surface, the Pentagon's assert...