Think of Marjan, a lion in Kabul zoo, which survived malnutrition and bomb shrapnel only to die of indigestion from the first real meal it received after the fall of the Taliban.
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Estimates on the number of people who die from any kind of medical mistake range from 40, 000 to more than 100, 000.
Israel holds the key to rather they live, die, starve to death, die from like of medical care and medicines for those who are sick.
The reality means more than 350 million couples still lack access to a full range of family planning services, and 529, 000 women die annually from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, most of them preventable.
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Bees die from all sorts of things, and especially from varroa mites.
When these cells die, they tend to die from the inside of the heart's pumping chamber and move outward.
After all, some hundred thousand people die each year from complications of surgery far more than die in car crashes.
Baclofen may just be the little pill that could prevent the deaths of the approximately two million people around the world who die from the effects of alcohol each year, according to the World Health Organization.
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But only one in a thousand of those in fact have a malignancy and are destined to die from it. (Most of the 4, 000 deaths per year from cervical cancer are in women who either never had a Pap smear or missed having one in the five years before a cancer diagnosis.) Over their lifetimes, 40% of women get a false alarm Pap.
Children under the age of 5 die from asphyxia at birth, sepsis, pneumonia, malaria and other causes.
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You spend most of your life riding around trying not to die, getting abuse from members of the public.
Earlier this month, Judy Dominguez Trunnell became the first U.S. resident to die from complications of the H1N1 flu.
Becoming a mother is a risky undertaking in the developing world, where every year over 500, 000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
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Like most physicians, Bolli was taught that heart cells don't regenerate, and that any cells which die from loss of oxygen during a heart attack are lost forever.
One-half of those who die from chronic diseases are in their productive years and so the social costs and economic consequences in terms of lost productivity are considerable.
Women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
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It is time of remarkable brain development, but also an extremely vulnerable time for young children, especially in the developing world, where a child has a four in ten chance of living in extreme poverty and 10.5 million children under age of 5 die from preventable diseases every year.
But Dragovic said Youk did not die from the disease but from the fatal dose of chemicals injected into his body.
The relatives of those who die from this point onwards are also entitled to payments.
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About 90 percent of Americans who die from the flu are 65 or older.
Thousands of people die every day from preventable, treatable diseases like AIDS, TB, and malaria.
Even more sobering is the estimation that 280, 000 U.S. citizens die each year from complications of obesity.
Critics point out that about one in a million people might die from side effects of the vaccine.
Many of those who die from Aids-related illnesses, do so younger, often because they were not diagnosed early.
How long would it take someone to die from an overdose of barbiturates?
Parkinson's itself doesn't kill people, but patients with advanced cases die of complications such as injuries from falling and pneumonia.
Engineers designed the dies on paper, and skilled craftsmen used hand-operated machinery to cut the die from a hunk of steel.
Professor Calder hailed the results saying they offered hope to the hundreds of thousands of people who die from arterial disease every year.
Because the truth is, when an average of eight children die from gun violence every day in this country, nobody is left untouched by a shooting death.
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