Estimates on the number of people who die from any kind of medical mistake range from 40, 000 to more than 100, 000.
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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When these cells die, they tend to die from the inside of the heart's pumping chamber and move outward.
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.
Although one in 30 women die of breast cancer, more than one in three die from cardiovascular disease.
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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.
Thousands of people die every day from preventable, treatable diseases like AIDS, TB, and malaria.
Children under the age of 5 die from asphyxia at birth, sepsis, pneumonia, malaria and other causes.
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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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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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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.
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.
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.
Many of those who die from Aids-related illnesses, do so younger, often because they were not diagnosed early.
Earlier this month, Judy Dominguez Trunnell became the first U.S. resident to die from complications of the H1N1 flu.
Professor Calder hailed the results saying they offered hope to the hundreds of thousands of people who die from arterial disease every year.
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.
Women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
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Child Safety Week is Sept. 19 - 25, and it's no small cause: Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children 3 to 14 years old, and 2010 is on course to be a record-breaking year for the number of children who die from heat-stroke in parked cars.
Critics point out that about one in a million people might die from side effects of the vaccine.
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.
Bees die from all sorts of things, and especially from varroa mites.
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1, 825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from alcohol-related unintentional injuries.
The Gates Foundation wants Zambia to be a model to show that an African country can significantly reduce the number of its citizens who die each year from malaria.
Sir David's appearance before MPs comes a month after the publication of the final report of the public inquiry into the scandal, which saw hundreds of patients die after neglect and abuse from staff.
The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 40 percent of those 85 and older will suffer from some form of dementia before they die.
Three quarters of us are going to die from either cancer, cardiovascular disease, or stroke.
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