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5 days ago · In The Lancet, we have published the findings of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 in a series of six Articles.1–6 GBD began in 1991 and has continued over the past three decades to provide a comprehensive empirical assessment of health around the world.7 With each iteration GBD has become more detailed, including more causes, risks, and locations ...
3 days ago · This tracker provides the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, as well as the rate of daily COVID-19 cases and deaths by country, income, region, and globally.
3 days ago · Annual deaths from drowning in the U.S. have increased for the first time in decades, new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals. More than 4,500 people died ...
1 day ago · In 1990, 12.8 million children under the age of five died mostly of preventable causes like respiratory infections, diarrhea, and malaria. By 2022, that number fell to 4.9 million. We still have a ...
13 hours ago · 🌎 How many people have contracted bird flu worldwide? Since 2003, there have been more than 880 human bird flu cases worldwide, according to the CDC. But they are still rare and “sporadic ...
2 days ago · Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people, exhibits one such discrepancy. When comparing the suicide rate of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the rate of suicide increases to 24.3 incidents per 100,000 people: [19] a rate among the ten highest in the world.
3 days ago · About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, including both American citizens and non-citizens who were in the country at the time they died, the CDC estimated. That’s down 3% from 2022 when there were an estimated 111,000 such deaths, the agency said. "I think the preliminary numbers are encouraging but one death is too many ...
