Each year, nearly three million babies die within their first month of life -- more than a third die on their day of birth -- and 287, 000 women die from pregnancy or childbirth, according to the report.
Experts estimate hundreds of thousands of people around the world die because of counterfeit medicines each year.
Deprived of their waxy coats, the victims die rapidly of dehydration.
"I am worried of climate change because my later relatives might die because of it!"
Although one in 30 women die of breast cancer, more than one in three die from cardiovascular disease.
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This is the diagnosis whereby caregivers are convicted of child abuse after babies die of sudden subdural brain bleeding and swelling with no evidence of external injury.
Some 60% of all lung cancer patients die within a year of diagnosis, and 85% die within five years.
Although I cannot provide any great studies to prove this, my experience is that a boat load of people know they are going to die a significant period of time before they actually die.
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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Also this year, an estimated 243, 620 men will die of cancer - one death for every 2.36 new diagnoses - and 182, 670 women will die, one for each 2.50 new diagnoses.
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As some 75% of avalanche victims die of suffocation, not trauma, this saved her life.
Half a billion get the disease every year and more than a million die of it.
That year polio infected 52, 000 Americans, some 3, 000 of whom would later die of it.
Thousands of years ago humans didn't live long enough to die of clogged arteries.
That's how many Americans will die of colorectal cancer this year, an estimated 56, 600 in 1999.
At the moment, nobody knows if SIDS babies die of brachycardia or hypothermia or both.
On the other hand, there are still 40, 000 women every year who die of breast cancer.
Some older patients who have slowly progressing cancers are likely to die of other causes.
One in 20 hospitalized patients will die because of misdiagnosis, studies cited in the book show.
Nanak regained consciousness at a hospital in time to see Sartaj die of his wounds.
Older workers take longer to recover and are more likely to die of job-related injuries.
Soon, more people will be put on ARVs each year than die of the disease.
The WFP says that 5, 000-10, 000 people could die of starvation in southern Somalia in August.
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According to one recent estimate, one quarter of the population of southern Africa may die of Aids.
Meanwhile, more children die of choking on balloons, balls, marbles and small toy accessories than anything else.
One in six men will develop full-fledged tumors, and one in 35 will die of the disease.
They tell me even in the U.S. or other developed countries women die of embolisms during childbirth.
Couch potatoes were also about 50 percent more likely to die of any cause during the four-year study.
According to data from the National Cancer Institute, three out of 100 men will die of prostate cancer.
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For women, those who never married were 22% more likely to die of cancer than those who were.
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