Russia recorded a dramatic increase in mortality in 2020 fuelled by the coronavirus pandemic, according to new official figures released
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Viral load predicts mortality rate in hospitalized patients with cancer and COVID-19
Higher viral loads are associated with a greater risk of death among cancer and non-cancer patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease
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Global COVID-19 registry finds strokes associated with COVID-19 are more severe, have higher mortality
Acute ischemic strokes (AIS) associated with COVID-19 are more severe, lead to worse functional outcomes and are associated with higher
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Adding smoking cessation to lung cancer screening can reduce mortality by 14%
Including smoking cessation with existing lung cancer screening efforts would reduce lung cancer mortality by 14 percent and increase life-years
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Child mortality intervention helps close poverty gap in Ghana
Giving people access to nurses in their own communities is reducing the child mortality rate in Ghana, offsetting the health
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Decreasing the maternal mortality rate in Ghana
This past summer, students from the College of Life Sciences Department of Public Health worked to lower the maternal mortality
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Roasted or fried – Permanent chicken consumption increases the risk of premature death
Fried fish and meat to the risk Doctors found out now that the regular consumption of fried chicken or fish
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Rates of premature mortality are two times higher in the most deprived areas of England, compared to most affluent
Rates of premature mortality are two times higher in the most deprived areas of England (Blackpool), compared to the most
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Mortality Rate From Heart Failure Higher in Women Than Men
FRIDAY, Sept. 21, 2018 — Despite decreases in overall heart failure incidence and mortality in ambulatory patients from 2009 to
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Flu Vaccine Cuts Mortality in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
TUESDAY, July 31, 2018 — Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), particularly elderly patients, who receive the influenza vaccine have significantly
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