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

They also were twenty-three percent more likely to die of cancer.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

That means these children will not die of these diseases,5.4 million, and we hope to prevent 4.2 million premature deaths by keeping immunization rates high over the next five years for basic immunization and rolling out vaccines against pneumonia and rotavirus diarrhea."

VOA: special.2010.09.15

"Women who had their ovaries removed had a decrease in the risk of breast cancer, a decrease in the risk of ovarian cancer and,in addition,they were less likely to die of breast cancer, less likely to die of ovarian cancer and also had an improvement in their overall survival."

VOA: special.2010.09.22

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

"Which causes heart attacks and strokes." The World Health Organization reports an estimated 17 million people die of heart disease and stroke every year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

"No one today need die of TB." "No child should see the life of a mother or father destroyed by a disease that is completely curable.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

The Foundation says seven thousand people die in parts of Africa every day from conditions resulting from the disease AIDS.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The Foundation says seven thousand people die in parts of Africa every day from conditions resulting from AIDS.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

America's Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about one hundred thousand sea animals die each year as a result of the plastic waste.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

So he saw hundreds of men, thousands of men, suffering awfully from very deep wounds and left to die without any real assistance."

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Many of the animals die when people harvesting other kinds of fish pull in sharks by accident.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

It predicts that more than seven million people will die early as a result of cancer.

VOA: special.2009.03.02