Acute hospital care at home shows promise for medically complex patients
Jan 08, 2024
At 30 days after discharge, the mortality rate was 3.2% and skilled nursing facility use rate was 2.6%.
Race/ethnicity, socioeconomics, age contribute to disparities in cancer death
Nov 22, 2023
Greater racial and geographic disparities in cancer mortality were seen for those younger than 65 years versus 65 years of age or older.
Gender life expectancy gap increased from 2010 to 2021
Nov 13, 2023
The leading contributors to the widening gender life expectancy gap from 2019 to 2021 included COVID-19 and unintentional injuries.
Caregiving linked to lower mortality in postmenopausal eomen
Nov 10, 2023
The inverse association did not differ with caregiving frequency or when stratified by age, race-ethnicity or depressive symptoms.
Living alone tied to higher risk for cancer death
Nov 02, 2023
The findings persist for men, women, white adults and those with college education when fully adjusting for other factors.
EPA to ban carcinogenic chemical found in degreasers, cleaners
Oct 24, 2023
The proposal was made under the Toxic Substances Control Act; it would ban manufacturing, processing and distributing TCE for any use.
21.2 percent of U.S. adults had diagnosed arthritis from 2019 to 2021
Oct 12, 2023
Age-standardized prevalence rates were higher among women than men, veterans than nonveterans and non-Hispanic whites.
AACR cancer progress report reveals 33 percent decrease in cancer death rate, 1990 to 2020
Sep 13, 2023
The report highlights advances such as approval of 14 new anticancer therapeutics and the expansion of the use of 12 previously approved therapeutics.
Adherence to Mediterranean lifestyle linked to lower mortality
Aug 29, 2023
Increasing quartiles of MEDLIFE index were associated with reduced hazard ratios for all-cause and cancer mortality.
Sugar-sweetened drinks linked to increased incidence of liver cancer, mortality
Aug 08, 2023
The incidence of liver cancer and death from chronic liver disease increased for postmenopausal women drinking one or more sugar-sweetened beverage per day.