Health experts predicted the number of people who die from cancer will soon be greater than deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The number of them who die each year from the disease could reach 17 million.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The best you can hope is to manage the hostilities and try to minimize the number of civilians who die,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

A study in 2005 found that around half of the Cambodian women who die in childbirth succumb to massive blood loss.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The World Health Organization aims to reduce by half the number of people who die from tuberculosis by the year 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Cambodia is working to reduce the number of women who die in childbirth and to lower the number of infants and children under age five who die.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

A report released by New York City's health department says the percentage of women who die in pregnancy and childbirth in the New York is double that of the national average.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

The figures in the two efforts reveal an anomaly: While Cambodia has succeeded in dramatically cutting the ratio of children who die each year, the maternal mortality figure has not dropped in a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The East Timorese believe a curse plagues the families of people who die without a proper burial, so this ceremony is to symbolically put Fernando's soul to rest, and bring peace to his bereaved relatives.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

The soldiers without spleens were two times as likely to die of heart disease as the soldiers who still had their spleens.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Then they began to die. In some of the gold centers, big mining companies bought up all the land from those who first claimed it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

There are still thousands of us who will die for you."

VOA: special.2009.12.17

The data shows that these patients were twice as likely to die as those who did not succumb to infections.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Nancy Dlamini, a 22-year-old student from Swaziland, thought Jackson was an icon who would never die but she is philosophical about his passing.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

A new study of HIV-infected people in Haiti indicates that starting treatment early could save many patients who might otherwise die of AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"Here you are facing a very hardened sort of fighters, who are die-hard,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

WHO reports more than three-and-a-half million people die every year from malnutrition-related causes.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

A report is due in June that is expected to show what progress has been made toward saving the lives of mothers, babies and children who do not need to die.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11