“Couple probed after third child dies at home - Independent Online” plus 4 more |
- Couple probed after third child dies at home - Independent Online
- Vexing long-term health care absent from US debate - Twin Falls Times-News
- Yemeni Child Bride Dies Giving Birth (Photo) 'Too Poor For Medical ... - Post Chronicle
- AP: Baby Formula Illegally Marketed Abroad - CBS News
- Multinationals selling baby formula in Vietnam break milk law meant to ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune
| Couple probed after third child dies at home - Independent Online Posted: 19 Sep 2009 10:45 AM PDT |
| Vexing long-term health care absent from US debate - Twin Falls Times-News Posted: 19 Sep 2009 10:45 AM PDT Copyright © 2006, Lee Publications Inc. Magicvalley.com is an on-line division of the Times-News, published daily at 132 Fairfield St. W., Twin Falls, Idaho 83301 by Lee Publications, Inc., a subsidiary of Lee Enterprises.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Yemeni Child Bride Dies Giving Birth (Photo) 'Too Poor For Medical ... - Post Chronicle Posted: 19 Sep 2009 11:21 AM PDT A 12-year-old pregnant Yemeni girl forced into marriage has died from severe bleeding after three days in labor, child advocates said. Fawziya Ammodi and her baby were pronounced dead at a hospital in Yemen Friday, the Seyaj Organization for the Protection of Children told CNN in a story published Monday. "Although the cause of her death was lack of medical care, the real case was the lack of education in Yemen and the fact that child marriages keep happening," Seyaj President Ahmed al-Qureshi said. Born to a poor family in Hodeidah, Fawziya was married last year to a 24-year-old man, al-Qureshi said. Such marriages are common in Yemen, where more than half of all Yemeni girls are married before age 18, often to older men who have more than one wife, a study by Sanaa University said. The plight of Yemeni child brides came to light two year ago when 8-year-old Nujood Ali escaped her violent husband and obtained a divorce in a well-publicized trial, CNN reported. See a larger photo here. (c) UPI  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| AP: Baby Formula Illegally Marketed Abroad - CBS News Posted: 19 Sep 2009 12:54 PM PDT |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:15 PM PDT Several other big formula companies also tried to land a deal with the clinic, said Loan, the former vice director. Another clinic employee, who declined to give her name because she still works at the clinic, confirmed Loan's account. The staff didn't promote formula for babies under six months, Loan said, but they frequently pushed it for babies between six and 12 months. Vietnam's law prohibits advertising formula products for children under age one — a weakened version of an earlier law that set the age limit at 2. Several Hanoi shopkeepers also said that formula companies pay doctors commissions for promoting sales. It is illegal to sell infant formula inside Vietnamese hospitals, except in pharmacies, but the alley just outside Hanoi's main maternity hospital is lined with shops prominently displaying American and European brands. "Most customers are sent by their doctors right after they give birth," said Ngo Thanh, 27, who has worked next to the main maternity hospital for five years. She and other shopkeepers said their customers bring labels or plastic caps from formula tins back to their doctors for documenting sales. Vietnam's low-paid doctors are easy targets for formula companies, which offer them "formidable benefits," said Dr. To Minh Huong, deputy director of Hanoi's main maternity hospital. Last year, she said, company representatives came to the hospital and posed as academic researchers, looking for patient information. "When we asked for their IDs, they fled," she said. Formula companies denied paying commissions. "Our employees are routinely trained and held to high standards of compliance," said Gail Wood, a spokeswoman for Mead Johnson Nutrition, an American firm based in Glenview, Ill. Vietnamese law also prohibits formula salesmen from approaching health workers or mothers at health care facilities. Wood said staff abide by the law and the international code. But Nguyen Thi Minh, 29, a Hanoi paralegal, said she was approached by a Mead Johnson salesman at a Hanoi maternity clinic shortly before giving birth. "I chose Mead Johnson's EnfaGrow because the advertisements said it boosts your child's IQ and makes them taller," Minh said.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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