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US Infant Mortality Rate Down 12% Since 2005
Published on 18 Apr, 2013 at 18:44 in World | | No Comments
After holding steady from 2000 through 2005, the US infant mortality rate dropped 12% from 2005 through 2011, according to a new CDC report. In 2011, the rate was 6.05 deaths of babies less than a year old for every 1,000 births, down from 6.87 in 2000. Premature births also have been dropping since 2006, and many hospitals…
Surgeon volume and in-hospital mortality for open AAA repair
Published on 22 Apr, 2012 at 18:01 in Health | | No Comments
Researchers from Southwestern Texas University’s Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and the Veterans Medical Center, both in Dallas, have reported that composite surgeon (overall) volume rather than operation-specific (annual) surgeon volume is a key determinant of in-hospital mortality for elective open abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery (AAA). Their research was published in the December issue of the Journal of…
India has worst child mortality gender differential worldwide, new U.N. data show
An Indian girl between the ages of one and five years old is 75 percent more likely to die than an Indian boy, giving the country the worst gender differential in child mortality in the world, according to new data released by the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Times of India reports. The…
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