Researchers launch biggest study of US children WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

Researchers launch biggest study of US children
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers hoping to determine the causes of many common diseases like autism and diabetes will follow 100,000 U.S. children from birth through adulthood in the largest ever study of its kind.

1.4 million children could be saved with vaccines
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An estimated 1.4 children under five years of age die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough or tetanus, all of them preventable with vaccines, the U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, reported on Thursday.