Sentences with phrase «deaths reported annually»

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Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Suboptimal breastfeeding accounts for one million infant deaths annually, and 10 percent of the disease burden in children, reported the UK publication, Archives of Disease in Childhood, in 2012.

According to a May report from the Wellcome Trust in London, antimicrobial resistance in China could cause 1 million premature deaths annually by 2050 and cost the country $ 20 trillion.

Even when it doesn't lead to diabetes, which kills a million people annually, high blood sugar causes 2.2 million deaths globally from heart disease and stroke every year, Ezzati and his colleagues observe in another report from the same Lancet.

Forty - eight million cases of foodborne illness are reported annually in the United States, including 3,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported that C. neoformans causes more than one million cases of cryptococcosis annually with more than 620,000 attributable mortalities, resulting in approximately one - third of all AIDS - associated deaths [25].

More than 40,000 new cases are diagnosed and 29,000 deaths are reported in the United States annually.

Dr. Indur M. Goklany, a top scientist on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says the recent report by UN's World Health Organization (WHO) predicting 250,000 deaths annually caused by global warming utilized «willful exaggerations» to promote more climate alarmism.

In his paper «Unhealthy Exaggeration: The WHO report on climate change,» Goklany writes: «In the run - up to the UN climate summit in September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released, with much fanfare, a study that purported to show that global warming will exacerbate undernutrition (hunger), malaria, dengue, excessive heat and coastal flooding and thereby cause 250,000 additional deaths annually between 2030 and 2050.

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Worldwide, the Graun reported in 2012, Climate change is already contributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people a year and costing the world more than $ 1.2 trillion, wiping 1.6 % annually from global GDP, according to a new study.

A new study by a former FDA economist reports that foodborne illness costs America $ 152 Billion annually, the cost of 76 million cases of food related illness, 5,000 deaths, and 325,000 hospitalizations.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that more than $ 700 billion annually is spent on deaths, injuries and property damage resulting from product liability accidents in the U.S..

A report by the Institute of Medicine estimates that between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths and up to 1 million injuries occur annually as a result of medical malpractice in the U.S., indicating that the fears of these medical patients are often quite valid.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that falls cause around 8,000,000 non-fatal injuries and 24,000 deaths annually.

ABC News reports that aviation crashes result in approximately 500 deaths annually.

A report from WHO showed that respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, categorised as lifestyle ailments, are a major threat across the globe — accounting for 38 million global deaths, annually.