Factors contributing to disparities in cancer death include race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location, and age, according to a study published online Nov. 14 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Nov 22, 2023
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Social assistance programs have strongly reduced child mortality in Brazil, and their expansion could prevent nearly 150,000 child deaths by 2030. The study, led by the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), shows ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new report published Thursday.
Nov 16, 2023
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College sports have seen a decline in the rate of sudden cardiac deaths, but rates remain higher for Division I men's basketball players, as well as male and Black athletes in other sports, new research has found.
Nov 14, 2023
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While the overall cancer death rate has been steadily declining in the U.S. since the 1990s, death rates due to pancreatic cancer are increasing.
Nov 8, 2023
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Boosting levels of a deficient protein has clear survival benefits for people with the genetic condition alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), according to new research led by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. ...
Nov 1, 2023
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The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year—the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nov 1, 2023
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A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the White River Junction Veterans Administration (VA), and including the West Haven VA and Palo Alto VA, has analyzed electronic health record data from more than 5.9 million ...
Oct 16, 2023
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About 12,000 Black and Hispanic patients who died after surgery the past two decades may have lived if there were no racial and ethnic disparities among Americans having surgery, suggests a study of more than 1.5 million ...
Oct 16, 2023
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As cold and flu season ramps up, health care experts are once again on high alert for the possibility of a tripledemic, or a surge brought on by the respiratory viruses that cause COVID-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial ...
Oct 12, 2023
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