Sentences with phrase «american deaths each year»

Xenex goes after some of the hardest - to - kill pathogens, including C. difficile, which is linked to 14,000 American deaths each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As the cause of one out of every 20 American deaths each year, many of us have either been directly or indirectly affected by stroke.

Not exact matches

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S. Every year over 700,000 Americans have a heart attack and half of those are fatal.

The status quo for hundreds of thousands of people, meanwhile, is untenable: More than 333,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year in any of four cancer types in which the five - year survival rate remains lower than 20 %, and in all, nearly 600,000 U.S. deaths are expected from cancer in 2016.

Considering that nearly one in four American deaths per year are attributable to heart disease... What gives?

This year there will be an estimated 1,735,350 new cancer cases and 609,640 cancer deaths in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society.

A recent New York Times analysis suggests that overdoses have now become the leading cause of death among Americans younger than 50, and that these fatalities rose 19 % to 65,000 deaths in 2016, witch an even sharper spike possible this year.

The study suggests that excessive soda consumption could be indirectly linked to the deaths of as many as 180,000 people every year, including 25,000 Americans, The Washington Post reports.

Fentanyl, a drug that's 30 times stronger than heroin and claimed the lives of more than 20,000 Americans last year, has been implicated in the deaths of celebrities including Prince and Tom Petty.

The American Cancer Society estimates lung cancer will cause more than 234,000 new cases this year in the U.S. and more than 154,000 deaths.

Twenty years later, the American car industry collapsed because they produced cars which were death traps and Ralph Nader exposed this and you saw the rise of the German car industry, which was predicated on safety.

An American couple have been charged with manslaughter, accused of beating their 19 - year - old son to death... More

The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan By Ian Buruma Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 330 pages, $ 25 Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932 - 45 and the American Cover - Up By Sheldon Harris Routledge, 295 Pages, $ 25 Fifty years have elapsed since the close of the Second....

Last year, stats concerning the opioid epidemic crossed a grim new line: Overdoses — mostly on opioids — are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50.

CT's coverage of terrorism against Christians includes the viral video of a 10 - year - old Iraqi girl forgiving ISIS, how modern - day «Monuments Men» are trying to save Biblical - era artifacts from ISIS, and the death of the first American volunteer to die fighting terrorism in Iraq and Syria.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

At the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's death.

By contrast, Americans have largely outsourced death and dying over the last 150 years, gradually banishing it from sight and thought.

Late in his life, a few years after Moore's death, Lewis married Joy Davidman Gresham, an American who, while still married, went to England with the intention of meeting Lewis.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Every few years, beginning in 1967 with Death at an Early Age, Kozol has brought forth another book exposing what he regards as some grave injustice of American society.

The 54 - year - old Downton Abbey actor travelled through Jerusalem for the American documentary, Jesus: Countdown to Calvary, speaking with academic experts and spiritual leaders to «deconstruct the week leading up to Jesus» death and untangle the complex factors that resulted in his crucifixion».

At a conference on transplantation last year sponsored by the American College of Legal Medicine, Thomas Starzl endorsed a policy of presumed consent, which allows physicians to retrieve organs unless the deceased opted out by specifically stating an opposition to organ donation prior to death.

Set in different centuries, stories from two of America's greatest storytellers highlight the manner in which American encounters with death and dying have changed over the last two hundred years.

Suicide remains a taboo subject, even though there are about as many suicides in the nation each year as there were American deaths in the entire Vietnam war.

The year of Christianity Today's birth also brought the death of five American missionaries in Ecuador: Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Peter Fleming.

Right - wing pundits and preachers of every kind have been praising American deaths for years.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Case and Deaton highlight the finding that overall mortality rates for middle - aged white Americans have increased in recent years due to deaths from self - destructive behavior: suicide, drug and alcohol overdose, and disease resulting from long - term alcohol abuse.

These are among some of the cases reported in a registry maintained by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network and are just a few of the deaths from food allergies that occurred between over the years.

Based on the findings, they estimated that about 720 infant deaths would be prevented annually if all American women breastfed their babies for the first year.

Since, the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) started recommending back sleeping, the occurrence of SIDS have dropped to about 3000 deaths per year.

It's been over 20 years since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that babies sleep on their backs to help prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

It's like when Americans come to Japan and pretend that their gun control laws (10 gun deaths last year) mean nothing, because they don't understand freedom (Japan is pretty democratic, and unlike the US they use that democracy to vote out their Prine Ministers about every year — pretty sure they understand democracy!).

Our current contract — «until death» — might have worked when people didn't live all that long (according to the American sociologist and author Stephanie Coontz, the average marriage in colonial times lasted under 12 years); or when many women died in childbirth, freeing men to marry multiple times (which they did); and when men of means needed women to cook, clean and caretake, and women needed men for financial security.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, babies should sleep in their parents» room — but not in the same bed — for at least the first six months of life, ideally for the whole year, to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) by as much as 50 percent.

Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advise caretakers to put infants to sleep on their backs and to avoid loose bedding, soft sleeping surfaces and bed sharing in order to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death in children between one month and one year ofDeath Syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death in children between one month and one year ofdeath in children between one month and one year of age.

From ear infections to asthma, from obesity to SIDS, in 2007, a study published in Pediatrics (the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics) estimated that if 90 % of families breastfeed for 6 months, the United States would save $ 13 billion and prevent 911 deaths per year (Bartick 2010).

Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»

While I was unable to find any statistics on choking on school grounds per se, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported last year that «[c] hoking on food causes the death of approximately 1 child every 5 days in the United States,» and some of the characteristics of the typical school cafeteria eating experience were identified in the report as enhancing the risk of choking:

Pediatrician: It's been a number of years that the American Academy of Pediatrics has been recommending the back to sleep campaign and we saw a dramatic decrease in the number of babies who had crib death.

In contrast, co-sleeping — another practice vigorously supported by Brown — is killing many more each year because, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, it nearly triples the risk of infant death from SIDS.

However, the American Academy of Pediatrics says parents should never put loose blankets or other bedding in the crib with an infant younger than 1 year old, as it can increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

Congress spent millions and years investigating the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and about a day discussing the deaths of 17 American children in a Florida school.

Yaw Anokye Frimpong, the 22 - year - old man who confessed to killing two African - American women in Akwamufie in the Eastern Region, has been sentenced to death by hanging by the Accra High Court.

In recent years some small radical groups have exploited the deaths of American servicemen and used their funerals as a backdrop to spew messages of hatred and anti-americanism.

I wasn't here when he made the remarks last year that triggered the motion toward his state - ordered ouster Thursday from the Buffalo School Board, the moment months ago when Paladino sent an email wishing a painful death upon then - President Barack Obama and saying that Michelle Obama — an African - American lawyer and the first lady — should be living with an ape, as a male, in Africa.

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

In the same year as the first outbreak and death from MRSA, the late John F Kennedy in his American University speech in 1963 said «In the final analysis our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breath the same air, we all cherish our children's future, & we are all mortal.»