Experts say U.N. agencies spin data (AP)

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AP - Numbers don’t lie — or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward. Last week, UNICEF announced what it described as a “major public health success”: child deaths dropped to a record low of 9.7 million worldwide in 2005.


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Study: Soccer beats jogging for fitness (AP)

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Tottenham Hotspur's Jermain Defoe scores his second goal against Anorthosis Famagusta during their UEFA Cup first round soccer match at White Hart Lane Stadium, London, Thursday Sept. 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Graham Hughes)AP - A friendly game of soccer works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging, new research shows. Danish scientists, who conducted their research on 37 men, also found the soccer players felt less tired after exercising than the joggers because they were having more fun.



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Insecticide-treated bednet halves malarial death risk for infants (AFP)

A boy wears a miniature mosquito net on his head in Matam, northeastern Senegal, during celebrations marking the African anti-Malaria day, in 2004.  Using insecticide-treated bednets can nearly halve deaths from malaria among children aged under five, according to a study in Kenya published in Saturday's Lancet.(AFP/File/Marie Laure Josselin)AFP - Using insecticide-treated bednets can nearly halve deaths from malaria among children aged under five, according to a study in Kenya published in Saturday's Lancet.



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