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A report by UNICEF India in January 2009 found that about a million neonatal deaths occur in the country each year. Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) has the largest population of any state in India and continuing problems with neonatal mortality. In an effort to tackle this problem PATH India with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has initiated Sure Start, a five year project that works with a population of roughly 25 million in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

A major contributor to these death rates is the lack of literacy and awareness that exists in the rural areas of the country. For example, the benefits of immediate and exclusive breastfeeding are not well understood. For this purpose Sure Start in U.P. works with community health workers and facilitates the functioning of village health and sanitation committees.

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(Best Syndication News) CHICAGO - "When he bolted her the first time, she didn't die. She just stood there looking stunned as blood trickled from her forehead. She then got her bearings and tried to turn and run."

"The gas cart was filled to the brim with pigs today, a total of 39, including 9 large pigs that were at weaning age. They were left in the cart all day to trample each other, before being gassed all at once."

Read the diary and watch the video of undercover investigator Mike who worked at the Country View/Hatfield Quality Meats hog farm last spring and you're sure laws are being broken and the operation will be shut down. Wrong. There is nothing illegal in one of the most gruesome videos to circulate the Web says Mercy For Animals (MFA) who conducted the investigation, because there are no farm welfare laws to break.

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Louisiana and the nation face problems that won’t be solved by the health-care bill now in Congress, said state Secretary of Health and Hospitals Alan Levine on Tuesday.

Levine was in town to speak at the monthly meeting of the Thibodaux Rotary Club, held at Envie Restaurant.

Levine said national health-care costs are too high and coverage needs to be expanded. But these problems are not addressed in the bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday, he said.

“When you read this 2,000-page bill, it goes so far beyond that you forget what you’re trying to solve,” Levine said. “This idea that the public option is the solution is just wrong.”

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(Best Syndication News) CHICAGO - The news that clotheslines are back as an environmentally conscious way to dry clothes is both good and bad.

Clotheslines have been glorified as an emblem of the good old days, especially in country and Western songs where Mom sings Amazing Grace while pinning socks. (Not my mom.) But in the real world they are a mixed blessing.

Sure, nothing beats the fragrant aura of sheets dried amidst pastoral breezes--but how about towels, assuming they even dry? Do they go in the linen closet--or in the garage as emergency sandpaper?

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Wisconsin is located in the north-central United States. The Governor of Wisconsin has gone against the FDA and the rest of the pharmaceutical polices run in the US and has begun supporting the use of Canadian drugs available just across the US border.

It turns out that even though Wisconsin is a part of US, the governor doesn’t believe in the way healthcare is run in US. So he urges people to buy affordable prescriptions Canada drug, and that way most of the people will still have enough money to spend on food and shelter after they have spent on the necessary drugs. It is even easier nowadays to get access to these drugs through Canada pharmacy online.