Health Affairs editor Susan Dentzer says the rapid advance of information technology, along with declining prices, presents what she calls a spectacular opportunity in poor and middle-income nations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

It was a time of rapid changes in American society.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

"In many parts of the world." "the rapid growth and transformation has occurred in a setting of weak institutions and inadequate regulations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

It led to a rapid decline in foreign direct investment in Georgia and a rapid decline in growth, reinforced,of course, by the economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

But in recent decades, the world's forests have been stripped of trees at a rapid pace.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

And just like in Vietnam you can then get a very rapid erosion of public confidence."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Indeed,Dr.Strebel says measles, one of the most contagious diseases, is making a rapid comeback.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

So all the wires stringing the distribution needs to be done on a more rapid basis and faster so we can get out to the consumer."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Malalay Ahmadzai, the mother and child healthcare specialist for UNICEF in Cambodia, says both conditions require rapid treatment in the case of blood loss a woman can die within a few hours.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

What the vaccine would aim to do is achieve that in a much more rapid process rather than losing many people's lives and people experiencing a lot of illness before they develop immunity."

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

China's rapid economic growth has pulled millions of the country's residents out of poverty, but a new report says the environmental impacts of this progress is threatening the health of hundreds of millions more.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

"In recent years, the development of rapid, diagnostic tests for malaria, also known as RDTs, which can be performed by healthcare workers after a brief training has made the extension of diagnostic testing to rural health facilities possible."

VOA: standard.2010.03.09