The number of children under five who die every year plummets from 12 million in 1990, to 7.6 million last year, say Unicef and the World Health Organization.
6 millionMammograms No Better With Computer's HelpWebMD Health Wed, 07/27/2011 - 17:17
Review of 1.6 million mammograms from 685,000 women shows that commonly used computer-assisted detection (CAD) makes mammograms more costly but not better at finding cancers. Tags:
3 research programs win $6M in CIHR grants to promote global hea...EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health Mon, 07/25/2011 - 22:00
(University of British Columbia) Three research projects at the University of British Columbia have won five-year grants totaling nearly $6 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to promote greater equity in global health. Tags:
26 million Americans have diabetes, per CDCNYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News Thu, 01/27/2011 - 17:55
Approximately 1 in 12 Americans have diabetes, a disease in which the body has trouble processing sugar.The new figure marks a 9 percent increase from the 2008 estimate of 23.6 million.diabetes to nearly 26 million. Number of Patients with Diabetes Climbs to 24 MillionMedPage Today Infectious Disease Wed, 06/25/2008 - 10:09
ATLANTA -- The prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. in 2007 was estimated at 23.6 million cases -- or 7.8% of the population -- an increase of three million cases since 2005, according to the CDC. |
