Sentences with phrase «deaths a year from»

Family planning remains a basic human right and the lack of it already results in 600,000 needless deaths a year from pregnancy - related causes.

The excess total neonatal mortality for deliveries performed by home midwives was 9.3 / 10,000 births or about 18 - 19 excess neonatal deaths a year from midwife homebirths.

Increasing state alcohol taxes could prevent thousands of deaths a year from car crashes, say University of Florida Health researchers, who found alcohol - related motor vehicle crashes decreased after taxes on beer, wine and spirits went up in Illinois.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated in 2011 that the U.S. sees 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths every year from foodborne organisms.

Last year, the British government recommended that people cut their salt intake from 10 to 5 grams per day, estimating that this would prevent 34 000 deaths a year from stroke and heart attack.

It causes more than 600,000 deaths a year from cryptococcal pneumonia and meningoencephalitis, accounting for a third of all AIDS - related deaths.

You can't placebo yourself to 20,000 deaths a year from ibuprofen, right?

The UN agency estimates that trans fat contributes to more than 500,000 deaths each year from heart disease.

«Dogs die traumatic deaths every year from quite literally being cooked alive so we urge people to take extra care when out and about with their dogs, whether that is at a show or simply whilst popping to the shops.

To prime the pump, I mentioned a couple of instances that I reported on Dot Earth, including a report estimating 300,000 deaths a year from global warming and contentious statements made about the predicted die - back of the Amazon rain forest at a climate - science summit in Copenhagen early last year.

The lack of affordable electricity in poor countries is responsible for poverty and at least three million deaths a year from indoor smoke, yet western countries and international institutions largely refuse to support the cheapest source of electricity, fossil fuels.

162 fatalities in the whole history of wind farms against millions of deaths each year from air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels!

Burning fossil fuels causes millions of deaths each year from air pollution, is one of the main causes of climate change and it causes ocean acidification.

The FDA hopes that this new rule will help vastly reduce the use of antibiotics and decrease the 99,000 deaths each year from hospital acquired infections that are resistant to antibiotics.

But decades of relative government inattention and inaction on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tobacco control is almost certainly more to blame than recent government haste and inefficiency for the estimated 600 preventable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths each year from smoking.

Not exact matches

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

NEW YORK — Subway CEO Suzanne Greco is retiring from the post she took over from her brother following his death three years ago.

«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

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.

Because it makes up more than 13 % of all new cancers and nearly 27 % of all cancer deaths in the U.S. Just 17.7 % of diagnosed patients are still alive five years out from their diagnosis.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

In 2013, a few years after returning from the war, the forty - four year old was diagnosed with Stage 4 glioblastoma, a diagnosis that the vice president said his entire family «knew was the equivalent of a death sentence.»

A major report on the threat, commissioned by the British government, recently estimated that annual deaths resulting from antimicrobial - resistant infections could rise to 10 million a year in 2050, from the current 700,000.

Namely, they don't meet SSDI requirements that their condition be «expected to last at least one year or result in death,» preventing them from working.

The life of Andre Roussimoff is a myth built from years traveling the globe on the wrestling circuit (and has only increased since his death in 1993), and Simmons enlisted director Jason Hehir to uncover the truth about the legendary figure.

The Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse estimates that tobacco cost the country $ 17.1 billion in 2002 and the Heart and Stroke Foundation notes there are over 37,000 needless deaths per year from tobacco.

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

Assaults by firearm kill about 11,000 people in the US each year, which translates to a roughly 1 - in - 370 lifetime chance of death from gun violence.

In 1948, seven years before his death, Einstein had surgery to prevent the «grapefruit - sized» aneurysm from rupturing.

At the show, you can view more than 400 objects collected from his teenage years as David Jones to his death, all from the David Bowie Archive.

Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».

The next leading cause of death is stroke which has increased over the past five years from 406,595 (4.4 % of deaths) to 451,000 deaths (4.9 %) in 2015.

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

In the three years since, the number of overdose deaths involving fentanyl has skyrocketed at a rate that outpaces deaths from any other opioid, including heroin, hydrocodone, and oxycodone.

With more than 250,000 drug - and alcohol - related deaths a year nationwide, our society's battle against substance abuse is far from over.

Frazier's decision to step down from the council came after President Trump failed to immediately condemn head - on the white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend led to violence — including the brutal death of a 32 - year - old counter-protester.

As many as 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, US health officials said in December, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease's death toll.

After a median four years of post-study follow - up, those in the least sedentary quartile (sitting a mean 649 minutes a day in typically 6.5 - minute bouts) had a dramatically lower rate of death from all causes than those in the most sedentary group (835 minutes at rest, in periods of relative motionless averaging just under 20 minutes each).

With 1,500 cervical cancer diagnoses and 380 deaths from the disease each year in Canada alone, there's no doubt easier screening could have a huge impact on women's health care.

Government - controlled parts of the country increased from 63 % earlier this year to 68 % in November and, Skovlund writes, the Afghan military's Operation Khalid «resulted in the deaths of over 100 Taliban commanders and 3,000 militants by the end of the summer.»

Last year, the U.S. reported its first - ever death stemming from a superbug resistant to all available antibiotics.

Drugmakers have benefitted from the surge of opioid - related deaths in the U.S.; last year, Bloomberg reported that the drug's price had risen tenfold in recent years, with state and local governments shelling out to make the med more widely available.

Although its early investors got Quincy through those near - death experiences, the struggling fashion startup couldn't gain enough traction to secure a Series A round of funding from venture capitalists and the young company — barely a year old — shut its doors in January 2013.

From the deaths of 26 at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, to the 2016 massacre of mostly Latinx people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, to the loss of 58 lives at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas last year, we've seen mass shootings play out again and again and again.

Inmate deaths may top 550 this year if the current trend continues, putting 2018 up 29 percent from last year, the deadliest year on record in Florida prisons.

The way it works is that, each year, the insurer deduct all expenses, such as death benefits paid and the costs of running the business, from the money they've made (premiums collected, investments, and any other sources of income) and pays out any net profit as a dividend.

Namely, they don't meet SSDIrequirements that their condition be «expected to last at least one year or result in death,» preventing them from working.

Drug overdose deaths — originally from prescription opioids but increasingly now from heroin and fentanyl — have emerged as an increasingly grave social issue, steadily worsening over the past few years even as the economy improves.

A distribution from a Roth IRA is tax free and penalty free, provided the five - year aging requirement has been satisfied and one of the following conditions is met: age 59 1/2, disability, qualified first - time home purchase, or death.