More than 16,000 People Died of COVID-19 and Cancer in the US in 2020
More than 16,000 people with COVID-19 and cancer died between March and December 2020 in the United States, new data suggest.
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More than 16,000 people with COVID-19 and cancer died between March and December 2020 in the United States, new data suggest.
As new research shows that diabetes-related deaths have declined in US urban but not rural areas, researchers suggest it's time to prevent diabetes rather than just treat it.
A new study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) finds that there is a widening gap in diabetes-related mortality between urban and rural areas in the USA, and that reductions in mortality rates seen predominantly in urban areas have been mainly limited to female and older patients while outcomes in male and younger individuals worsened.
In spring of this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a 20-year rise in the number of mesothelioma deaths in women. Analyzing annual Multiple Cause of...
From 1999 to 2020, there was an increase in the annual number of mesothelioma deaths among women.