Sentences with phrase «of deaths each year»

«We have tens of thousands of deaths a year caused by air pollution, and that's not unusual,» Hammitt says.

Food shortages and droughts result in millions of deaths each year.

This risk is overlooked when considering safe outcomes for birth based on birth site, which is an incredible oversight considering the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» has recently concluded that 9.5 % of all deaths each year in the U.S. stems from a medical error.

Driving while under the influence of mind - altering substances cause thousands of deaths each year.

Scientists say that levels of noxious gases in the city's air are currently contributing to thousands of deaths a year.

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.

But, he says, «the number of new cases of pancreatic cancer every year is 40,000, and the number of deaths every year is 40,000.»

Arsenic is the leading freshwater contaminant on the planet, affecting millions of people worldwide and causing an untold number of deaths every year.

According to Wenzel, the lower CAFE standard for trucks has fostered a proliferation of behemoth SUVs and pickups that cause thousands of deaths every year when they plow into cars.

Many current antibiotics are becoming useless, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

Lightning can damage buildings and vehicles and is responsible for thousands of deaths every year (pdf), many of them in developing countries.

These highly - infectious viruses are the leading cause of upper and lower respiratory tract disease in young children, including Croup, responsible for thousands of hospitalizations in the developed world, and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year in developing countries.

Hundreds of UK service personnel have been killed or injured by IEDs in recent years, while landmines in former warzones worldwide continue to cause thousands of deaths every year.

The fuels used in the cookstoves release lots of particulate matter and greenhouse gases, such as methane, contributing to air pollution, climate change and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

This family of viruses, called «flavivirus,» affect some 2.5 billion people worldwide and cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

Cytoadhesion of P. falciparum in the brain leads to a large number of deaths each year and is a consequence of exported parasite proteins, some of which modify the erythrocyte cytoskeleton while others such as PfEMP1 project onto the erythrocyte surface where they bind to endothelial cells.

FDA has said the plan would help prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks and thousands of deaths a year.

Learn more about FEMA's citizen responder oriented programming to help you and your Protect Yourself from Influenza Influenza (flu) causes millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths each year

«If all passenger vehicles had ESC, we would prevent thousands of deaths each year.»

I.e. if you just had the mortality info (number of deaths each year), and the fact that M / F ratio has remained constant, what average - age would you estimate this set of policyholders to have been in Jun 07, from the CDC tables.

Cancer accounts for nearly 50 % of deaths each year in older pets.

Kamen said that addressing the basic needs — such as water and power — of the very poorest people would prevent millions of deaths a year and make a huge impact on environmental problems.

As Breitbart News reported in October, environmental pollution — particularly air pollution — is responsible for millions of deaths each year, while «climate change» is responsible for none.

Separately, the World Health Organisation warned Tuesday that climate change is already causing tens of thousands of deaths every year through shifting patterns of disease, extreme weather events, the degradation of water supplies and sanitation and impacts on agriculture, all of which could be alleviated by taking swift action to tackle climate risks.

Australia's biggest export is coal and the burning of coal is responsible for millions of deaths each year due to air pollution (and of course it is one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification).

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.

Nursing home infections cause tens of thousands of deaths every year, most often in the form of untreated bedsores.

Being a major metropolitan city, many of those deaths every year are due to car - pedestrian collisions in Miami.

Drunk driving accidents in California are the cause of thousands of deaths each year.

Combined, these defects and careless drivers contribute to thousands upon thousands of deaths every year.

Not exact matches

About 100 years after Dickinson's death, scientists began to formally study the power that a smile confers on the closing of a deal.

London (AFP)- Princess Diana rocked the monarchy when she leaked shocking details of palace life to author Andrew Morton, who told AFP the revelations are still causing damage 20 years after her death.

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.

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.

I've beaten this one to death over the years and can't say enough about the importance of sleep to increasing your emotional intelligence and managing your stress levels.

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.

Federal officials said black lung has caused roughly 78,000 deaths since the late 1960s and there has been a resurgence of it in recent years, especially in eastern Kentucky.

The term of copyright in a co-authorship situation is 50 years after the last surviving author's death.

(Swartz left Reddit shortly after the acquisition; this month marks the three - year anniversary of his death.)

The data results of a Social Security number verification can contain the state of and approximate year of the number; status as an invalid, nonissued, or misused number; status on whether the number has been used to file a death claim; address (es) of the user; employer (s) of the user; the year of birth or age of the user.

«In the next 50 or 60 years,» said Schiller, «the vaccine has the potential of preventing like 19 million cervical cancer cases and 10 million cervical cancer deaths.

Of the more than 600,000 global road traffic deaths that occur each year, China's comprise more than a third, with 220,000, according to Bloomberg's Global Road Safety Program.

«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.

The passenger's death was Southwest's first in its 47 years of flying.

There's really no other way United could respond to the terrible mishaps and horrible press it went through earlier this year, starting with the death of Kikito the French bulldog, and culminating with the revelation of the fact that almost half of all pets that die on planes, die on United.

They can also push retirees into higher tax brackets — especially when a spouse dies and their income transfers to the surviving spouse, or the surviving spouse dies and all of the estate becomes taxable in the year of death.

A large 2011 study of close to 39,000 older women over 25 years found that women who took them in the long term actually had a higher overall risk of death than those who did not.

Sometimes it's an obvious misstep — bankrupt airbag supplier Takata ranked last in the Harris poll this year after the largest recall in the history of the auto industry (and 22 deaths due to the company's products).