From 2020 to 2021, life expectancy decreased by 0.6 years among U.S. residents, reaching 76.4 years in 2021, according to a December data brief published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center ...
Dec 22, 2022
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A study conducted in Serrana, a small town in São Paulo state used as a model for COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil, shows that mass vaccination reduced the severe case and death rates even while the gamma and delta variants ...
Dec 21, 2022
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The highest incidence rates of bladder cancer are seen in the Northeast, while the West has the highest deaths rates for prostate cancer among non-Hispanic White men, according to a study published online Dec. 21 in European ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Homicide has become a leading killer of children, with guns being the most common weapon used in their deaths, a new study shows.
Dec 19, 2022
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A new analysis of firearm death rates from 1981 to 2020 shows that the people most heavily impacted by firearm deaths were Black men and white men, and that rates of firearm-related homicides and suicides jumped between 2019 ...
Dec 14, 2022
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Two years into the pandemic, U.S. counties with lower home internet or computer access levels were seeing higher COVID-19 case and death rates, according to research by Fei Li, an assistant professor of urban studies at Georgia ...
Dec 14, 2022
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death across the globe, according to a new "almanac"-style special issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). The issue looks at 18 specific ...
Dec 12, 2022
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China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to eliminate COVID entirely earlier in the pandemic. ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Second-line treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) led to significantly longer overall survival compared with trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, according to updated ...
Dec 7, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic reversed a decade's worth of progress in reducing mortality from cardiovascular disease in the U.S., new research has found.
Dec 5, 2022
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