Experts say the world has spent more than $196 billion trying to save people from death and disease in poor countries over the last two decades.

Rationale: Recent literature in mechanical ventilation includes strong evidence from randomized trials. Little information is available regarding the influence of these trials on usual clinical practice.

By Smith, Richard Medical journals, which many imagine to be as dull as telephone directories and twice as obscure, influence the lives of everybody- and not always for the better.

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More than 10,000 newborn babies die every day in poor countries, but more than 7,000 of them could be saved if simple, cheap - and deliverable - care is made available to them, according to new research.