Hilary Tindle from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania was the lead author of the report.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The report says malaria could be eliminated if countries are serious about using proven control measures like insecticides and bed nets.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

Two groups the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released the report earlier this month.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The report shows that more people work on weekdays than on Saturday and Sunday - the traditional weekend days.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

The report says one reason for the growing deadliness of cancer is more people smoking cigarettes in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The report says international law has failed to protect coral reefs and the tropical fish that live among them from collectors.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The report lists twenty-eight countries and territories with some of the world's most pressing crises affecting women and children.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The report by a team from the United States and China appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

An increasing number of countries are reporting a drop of more than fifty percent in malaria deaths, the report says.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The report says poaching and illegal horn trade has increased in South Africa even with new measures against it.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

The report estimates that there may be an additional one hundred million people with asthma by the year two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

As a result,the report says, the rate of plant and animal species disappearing is continuing faster than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.05.25