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04.29.2009 9:00 pm

A little perspective on swine flu

“In the long run, we’re all dead.”
— John Maynard Keynes

The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that a swine flu pandemic is likely imminent. “It’s really all of humanity that’s under threat,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, the organization’s director general.
Frightening though…

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11.06.2008 9:01 pm

Tied with Thailand on infant mortality

Post-Dispatch file photo

Post-Dispatch file photo

Americans like to think that we have the world’s best health care. Sometimes that’s true.
But in one of the most fundamental measures of health — infant mortality, the percentage of babies who die before their first birthday —…

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