Health
Health care providers rarely ask patients about access to firearms, finds research
Researchers surveyed 3,510 English-speaking adults living in five states as part of a Rutgers study
Mar 13, 2023
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News tagged with preventable deaths
Health informatics
Researchers find nationwide prison mortality rates skyrocketed during the pandemic
UCLA School of Law's Behind Bars Data Project—formerly the COVID Behind Bars Data Project—has launched a database that tracks the number of people who died while incarcerated, the only nationwide accounting of recent ...
Feb 20, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers estimate cost of 'injury deaths of despair,' including suicide, exceeds $1 trillion annually in the US
Self-injury deaths cost the United States more than $1 trillion a year in medical expenses and work and quality of life losses, according to new West Virginia University research.
Feb 9, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Pregnancy-related deaths rose in 2020
Pregnancy-associated deaths increased in the United States in 2020, according to a research letter published online Feb. 1 in JAMA Network Open.
Feb 2, 2023
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Cardiology
After 40 years of decline, stroke death rates are rising again
A Rutgers analysis of U.S. stroke deaths from 1975 to 2019 has found both a dramatic decline and the potential for an important resurgence.
Jan 6, 2023
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Health
Final tally: Nearly 107,000 US overdose deaths last year
Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, according to final figures released Thursday.
Dec 22, 2022
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Health
Homicide a leading cause of death for kids, teens
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Half of U.S. adults not concerned about the flu
More than half of U.S. adults say they are not very or not at all concerned about the upcoming flu season, according to the results of a survey released Nov. 29 by the American Heart Association.
Dec 9, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause
Preventable failures in U.S. maternal health care result in far too many pregnancy-related deaths. Each year, approximately 700 parents die from pregnancy and childbirth complications. As such, the U.S. maternal mortality ...
Nov 30, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
As segregation rises in communities, so do cancer death rates
Whether you survive a bout with cancer may depend, in part, on where you live.
Nov 18, 2022
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