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1 day ago · Dana Taylor: So why is a rising cancer among younger people puzzling scientists? Dr. Kimmie Ng: So a lot of times you think when a person comes to you young and otherwise healthy, that it must be ...
5 days ago · Suicide is the second-leading cause of death (after accidents) among young people ages 15 to 24 since at least 2000, according to Statistics Canada. The data also shows that between 2018 and 2022 ...
1 day ago · Situations often drive the emotional causes of suicide. Bullying, cyberbullying, abuse, a detrimental home life, loss of a loved one or even a breakup can be contributing causes of teen suicide. Often, many of these environmental factors occur together to cause suicidal feelings and behaviors.
5 days ago · Why Focus on Young Adults? In many respects, young adults have a worse health profile than both adolescents and adults in their late twenties and early thirties. For example, young adults have the highest rate of death and injury from motor vehicles, mental health problems, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and substance use.5.
15 hours ago · Paul Walker. Actor Paul Walker, who was best known for the Fast and Furious franchise, tragically died in a car crash on November 30, 2013. He was in the passenger seat of a Porsche Carrera GT ...
4 days ago · A combination of high infant mortality and deaths in young adulthood from accidents, epidemics, plagues, wars, and childbirth, before modern medicine was widely available, significantly lowers LEB. For example, a society with a LEB of 40 would have relatively few people dying at exactly 40: most will die before 30 or after 55.
4 days ago · The study by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit group that analyzes social and economic problems, puts a new spin on a six-year-old Institute of Medicine (IOM) study that found that 18,000 people died in 2001 because of a lack of insurance. The Urban Institute study suggests as many as 21,000 people may have died from a lack of insurance in 2001.
