COVID Was Third Leading Cause of U.S. Deaths in 2021, Says CDC
While COVID-19 in 2021 was again the third leading cause of death in the U.S., racial and ethnic disparities narrowed from the year before, provisional CDC data indicated. Overall, 65.2% of the COVID-19 deaths in 2021 were among white individuals, 16.5% were among Hispanic individuals, and 13.3% were among Black individuals. In 2020 these proportions […]
Missed Cancer Screenings During Pandemic Could Raise Death Rate for Years
Title: Missed Cancer Screenings During Pandemic Could Raise Death Rate for YearsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM
COVID’s Death Toll 3 Times Worse Than Official Counts
The global COVID-19 death toll may be three times higher than official tallies suggest, according to a systematic analysis of excess mortality during the pandemic. From Jan. 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2021, global deaths directly attributed to COVID-19 reached 5.9 million, yet estimates put excess deaths during this period at a staggering 18.2 million […]
Feelings of fatigue predict early death in older adults
How fatigued certain activities make an older person feel can predict the likelihood death is less than three years away, according to research published today in the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciencesby University of Pittsburgh epidemiologists. It is the first study to establish perceived physical fatigability as an indicator of earlier mortality. Older people who […]
Black Women with HIV Face Higher Early Death Risk
Black women with HIV had the highest risk of premature death, according to a 21-year study. In a retrospective analysis of over 6,500 patients with HIV, black women with HIV had an age-adjusted years of potential life lost (aYPLL) per 1,000 person-years of 592.5 (95% CI 588.4-596.6) versus white men with HIV with an aYPLL […]
Too Many Black Men Are Dying From Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer remains the second highest cancer-related cause of death in men in the U.S., and there has been a worrisome trend of rising metastatic disease at diagnosis. These facts make it increasingly important that the urological community and the patients we serve turn our attention to ways to overcome these challenges. The Role of […]
Why Bariatric Surgery’s Mortality Risk Is Higher in Men
Men and women might see vastly different risks for death following bariatric surgery, a new study suggested. In nearly 20,000 bariatric surgery patients, men saw a five-fold higher rate of death within 30 days of undergoing weight loss surgery compared with women (0.48% vs 0.08%, P<0.001), representing 25 deaths among male patients and 12 deaths […]
‘The Level of Death and Despair’: What We Heard This Week
“It’s almost impossible to describe to those who don’t work in our environment the level of death and despair that nurses and other frontline healthcare workers have been witness to over the past 18 months.” — Beth Wathen, MSN, RN, president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, on how the COVID pandemic has affected […]
A more complete molecular picture of lung squamous cell carcinoma comes into view: New insights into lung tumor biology and potential drug targets emerge from a study integrating genomics and proteomics
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-associated death in the United States and worldwide. Patients with a subtype called lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) have benefited from the development of new targeted medicines, but the search for effective new therapies for another subtype called lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) has largely come up short. To learn […]
Listeria Outbreak Linked to Precooked Chicken – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News TUESDAY, July 6, 2021 One death has been reported in a listeria outbreak that appears to be linked to precooked chicken served in health care facilities, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Three people in Texas and Delaware became sick after they ate foods at a […]