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- Working-class lad who loved language
- Keith Waterhouse, who has died at the age of 80, was a spirit of more than one lost age. His acerbic, precise and accessible writing kept his name and columns before the large readership of the Daily Mail for the last quarter of a century of a long, successful...
- External links 2009-09-04
- Bertelsmann's Reinhard Mohn dies aged 88
- Reinhard Mohn, who died on Saturday aged 88, was one of Germany's most important post-second world war industrial leaders. He turned Bertelsmann from a small family-owned German publisher into a global media group and held strong views on the organisation of companies, which he was not afraid of sharing...
- External links 2009-10-04
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- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2000
- This paper presents preliminary data on deaths for the year 2000 in the United States. U.S. data on deaths are shown by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Data on life expectancy, leading causes of death, and infant mortality are also presented. The age-adjusted death rate in 2000 for the...
- White papers 2001-10-09
- Global Goal to Reduce Measles Deaths in Children Surpassed; Measles deaths fall by 60 per cent Strictly Embargoed until: 00:01 GMT, 19 January 2007.
- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jan 18, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Measles deaths have fallen by 60 per cent worldwide since 1999 - a major public health success. This exceeds the United Nations goal to halve measles deaths between 1999 and 2005 and is largely due to an unprecedented...
- Research articles 2007-01-18
- RETRANSMISSION: Global Goal to Reduce Measles Deaths in Children Surpassed; Measles deaths fall by 60 per cent.
- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jan 19, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Measles deaths have fallen by 60 per cent worldwide since 1999 - a major public health success. This exceeds the United Nations goal to halve measles deaths between 1999 and 2005 and is largely due to an unprecedented...
- Research articles 2007-01-19
- Strategies to Reduce Pregnancy-Related Deaths: From Identification and Review to Action
- This paper describes strategies for conducting pregnancy-related or maternal mortality surveillance in the United States. This surveillance is an ongoing process of identifying pregnancy-related deaths, reviewing the factors that led to those deaths, analyzing and interpreting the information gathered, and acting on the results so as to reduce such deaths...
- White papers 2002-02-15
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2001
- This paper presents preliminary data on deaths for the year 2001 in the United States. U.S. data on deaths are shown by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Death rates for 2001 are based on population estimates consistent with the April 1, 2000, census. Data on life expectancy, leading causes...
- White papers 2003-03-14
- CIA investigating three deaths in custody
- WASHINGTON AFP ? The CIA's inspector general is investigating deaths of three prisoners in US custody in separate incidents last year in Iraq and Afghanistan, a CIA official said. At least two of the deaths appeared to be in addition to 25 deaths in custody that senior army officials...
- Research articles 2004-05-05
- U.S. Army re-examines deaths of Iraqi prisoners
- WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army's inspector general and criminal division are investigating whether U.S. troops deliberately or negligently exposed Iraqi prisoners to extreme heat and cold in ways that contributed to deaths that have until now been attributed to natural or unknown causes. Depending on the findings, some of...
- Research articles 2004-06-28
- More mass poultry deaths in Ukraine's bird flu-affected region
- SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine AFP — Mass poultry deaths have been recorded in six more villages in Ukraine's Crimea, where an H5-type bird flu virus was detected over the weekend, emergency ministry officials told AFP. "Deaths of domestic birds have been discovered in six more villages," said Volodymyr Ivanov, spokesman for...
- Research articles 2005-12-07
- Netherlands reports 1,000 heatwave deaths in July
- THE HAGUE AFP — The Netherlands recorded 1,000 extra deaths during July when the country was hit by a summer heatwave, the Central Bureau of Statistics CBS has said. In the first week of July, 200 more people were reported dead than the average figure for that period. Like other...
- Research articles 2006-08-30
- Half of all preventable child deaths occuring in Africa : UNICEF
- DAKAR AFP — Half of the global childhood deaths from preventable diseases take place in Africa, the head of the UN Children's Fund UNICEF said. "There are over 10 million deaths of children throughout the world every year from largely preventable causes -- primarily disease and malnutrition. About five million...
- Research articles 2006-11-10
- Anti–smoking New York sees tobacco deaths slide
- NEW YORK AFP — Three years after New York banned smoking in public places, the number of tobacco-related deaths has fallen significantly, according to city health officials. A report by the city's heath department showed that the number of smoking-related deaths recorded each year had fallen from almost 9,000 in...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- Lowest Number of U.S. Police Deaths in 35 Years - preliminary statistics released by FBI - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
- Preliminary statistics released by the FBI indicate that 42 law enforcement officers lost their lives due to criminal action in 1999, the lowest recorded figure in more than 35 years. The total shows a decrease of 19 officer deaths compared with the 1998 annual count of 61 and 29 fewer...
- Research articles 2000-08-01
- BID TO STOP JAIL DEATHS
- BRITISH labour party members in the constituency represented by the Solicitor General Harriet Harman are backing a campaign to halt Irish deaths in custody. Ms Harman teamed up with members present at a meeting of Camberwell and Peckham Constituency Labour Party recently, which decided to support the...
- Research articles 2003-10-26
- Dutch pull Pfizer infant vaccine after deaths
- Dutch health authorities have yanked a batch of Pfizer's Prevnar following the deaths of three infants. Prevnar, which is known as Prevenar in Europe, is used to protect infants from certain pneumococcal bacteria that can cause meningitis and bacteremia. Pfizer acquired the drug through its recent acquisition of Wyeth. "On...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Deaths force researchers to drop Alzheimer's drug doses
- The deaths of nine patients in a mid-stage trial of an experimental Alzheimer's therapy being studied by Elan and Transition Therapeutics have prompted researchers to drop the two highest doses being tested. And even though patients will continue to take the lowest dose of the drug ELND005, analysts say...
- News items 2009-12-16
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2002
- This paper presents preliminary data on deaths for the year 2002 in the United States. U.S. data on deaths are shown by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Death rates for 2002 are based on population estimates consistent with the April 1, 2000, census. Life expectancy at birth rose by...
- White papers 2004-02-11
- Deaths: Final Data for 2000
- This paper presents final 2000 data on U.S. deaths and death rates according to demographic and medical characteristics such as age, sex, Hispanic origin, race, marital status, educational attainment, injury at work, State of residence, and cause of death. Trends and patterns in general mortality, life expectancy, and infant and...
- White papers 2002-09-16
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 1999
- This paper presents preliminary data for 1999 on deaths in the United States. U.S. data on deaths are shown by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Data on life expectancy, leading causes of death, and infant mortality are also presented. In 1999 the age-adjusted death rate for the United States...
- White papers 2001-06-26
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