Benzodiazepine-Involved Overdose Deaths in the USA: 2000–2019 Robert A Kleinman, MD1,2 and Roger D. Weiss, MD3,4 1Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and ...
The Impact of State Mask-Wearing Requirements on the Growth of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United StatesCOVID-19mask policyquasi-experimental designhospitalizationsmortalityIn ecologic analyses of US states, piecewise multivariable models showed lower case-rate slopes...
States in the South (notably along the southern US border) and on the West Coast, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii had the highest age-standardized lost earnings for liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer. By sex, states with the highest age-standardized lost earning rates for lung ...
Air pollution alone resulted in almost 75% of the reported deaths. “Air pollution is similar to smoking. It damages the lungs, preventing us from taking in oxygen we need for life,” said Dr. Martin, one of the scientists. Another concern is the growing numbers in chemical and heavy meta...
D One out of every six deaths in 2019 were the result of pollution, according to a new estimate published in The Lancet Planetary Health.The analysis, led by an international team of scientists, indicates that pollution played a role in9 million deaths globally in 2019. This impact on health...
We used a similar approach to compare mortality rates during the same 11-week periods in 2019. We then calculated the ratio of the relative change in death rates in 2020 versus the relative change in death rates 2019. This approach allowed us to estimate the increase in deaths due to ...
Q: How many Tesla Autopilot crashes have resulted in death? In the Tesla Deaths dataset, there are 51 "Verified Tesla Autopilot Deaths" across 46 incidents. These deaths are defined as crashes involving a Tesla vehicle with Autopilot (i.e., Traffic-Aware Cruise Control and/or Autosteer) activ...
Temporal Trends in Alcohol-Related Mortality Rates by Sex, US, 1999-2020 View LargeDownload APC indicates annual percentage change. aP < .05; 95% CI does not include zero. Table 1. Sex Differences in Alcohol Mortality Rates in the US by Race and Ethnicity, Age, Region, and Cause, ...
Don Imus AP For 50 years, Don Imus (July 23, 1940-December 27, 2019) was the flamethrower of morning drive-time radio, a provocateur as outrageous as he'd been influential. "I wasn't trying to be outrageous," he told "Sunday Morning" in 2018. "It's just the way I thought. ...
Despite a surge of small spikes in the number of deaths in the last month on a week-by-week basis, overall levels remain close to those recorded last year, says the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI). The latest update from the CMI's mortality monitor yesterday (15 September) - the...