Sentences with phrase «related death increased»

As opioid - related deaths increase nationwide, Capital Region lawmakers and advocates said they fear proposed cuts to Medicaid would harm New York's most vulnerable.

According to county Legislator Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat and chairman of the Committee on Public Safety & Social Services, the looming cuts to the narcotics unit will pose an abundance of consequences to Westchester, which has seen opioid - related deaths increase by 60 percent this year over last year.

Schumer says in Westchester County, drug overdose - related deaths increased by 115 percent between 2010 and 2013.

The Cuomo administration says that fentanyl - related deaths increased 160 % between 2015 and 2016, including more than 310 % in New York City.

The effort comes as a way to stem the tide of rising costs for government and public safety from a growing drug epidemic in Westchester County, which has seen opioid - related deaths increase by 60 percent in the last year, according to county Legislator Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat.

Alcohol related deaths increased by more than 30 percent.

Alcohol related deaths increased by more than 30 percent and pedestrian deaths doubled.

Alcohol related deaths increased by 150 %.

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The falling rate of cancer - related deaths is clearly an impressive achievement, and may be partially attributable to drug makers» increased focus on developing novel new therapies to fight cancers.

Officials believe there are 435,000 to 1.5 million heroin users in the US, and, according to the DEA, heroin - related drug deaths increased 244 % between 2007 and 2013.

The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 2015.

«Those reports used the data provided by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry, but the Government needs to investigative if the increase of the deaths is related directly or indirectly with Hurricane Maria.»

The New York Times reports that Angus Deaton and Ann Case, two Princeton economists, have identified increases in suicide and drug and alcohol related deaths among high school educated white Americas as the cause for a remarkable spike in the overall death rate for....

While the nuclear threat has lessened somewhat, the threat of ecological deterioration has increased: they are related as «quick kill» to «slow death.»

Falls are among the most common causes of serious work - related injuries and deaths — and incorporating an overhead platform into your processing plant increases the possibility of employees being injured by a fall, especially when the proper measures haven't been taken to ensure employee safety.

Bed - sharing increases the risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and other sleep - related deaths.

A recent report from the Academy of Pediatrics shows that parents who use baby monitors in their home have an increased ability to prevent SIDS related deaths.

Although putting a baby to sleep on their back did decrease SIDS - related deaths, the American Academy of Pediatrics noted that researchers found that suffocation and entrapment deaths increased.

After more than a decade (ending in 2011) of working with the Alaska Division of Public Health tracking local SIDS and sleep - related death cases, we were unable to find evidence that co-sleeping increased the risk of death when controlling for other factors.

But sleep - related deaths from other causes, including suffocation, entrapment and asphyxia, have increased.

People usually throw caution, diets and nutrition to the wind during the holidays so it's no wonder that there is an increase in heart attacks and heart related death during the holiday season.

Our study is consistent with previous reports that found no increase in death or in morbidity related to aspiration when sleeping supine.

However, such soft bedding can increase the potential of suffocation and rebreathing.54, 56,57,179, — , 181 Pillows, quilts, comforters, sheepskins, and other soft surfaces are hazardous when placed under the infant62, 147,182, — , 187 or left loose in the infant's sleep area62, 65,184,185,188, — , 191 and can increase SIDS risk up to fivefold independent of sleep position.62, 147 Several reports have also described that in many SIDS cases, the heads of the infants, including some infants who slept supine, were covered by loose bedding.65, 186,187,191 It should be noted that the risk of SIDS increases 21-fold when the infant is placed prone with soft bedding.62 In addition, soft and loose bedding have both been associated with accidental suffocation deaths.149 The CPSC has reported that the majority of sleep - related infant deaths in its database are attributable to suffocation involving pillows, quilts, and extra bedding.192, 193 The AAP recommends that infants sleep on a firm surface without any soft or loose bedding.

Concurrently, other causes of sudden unexpected infant death occurring during sleep (sleep - related deaths), including suffocation, asphyxia, and entrapment, and ill - defined or unspecified causes of death have increased in incidence, particularly since the AAP published its last statement on SIDS in 2005.

Given that reactive bed - sharing occurs when parents struggle with their infants sleep, extending the recommended time frame could in fact cause an increase in SIDS related preventable deaths.»

Statistics released by the Department for Transport today show an increase in casualties and incidents caused by drink driving, while there has been no improvement in drink driving related deaths since 2010.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

As things stand, Erie County is poised to end the year with 357 confirmed or suspected opioid - related deaths for 2016, a significant increase over the 256 deaths in 2015 and 128 in 2014.

Overdose deaths spike in upstate NY New York has seen a significant increase in drug - related deaths over a recent six year period, officials report.

This policy has led to a massive increase in the prescription of «safe drugs» like Methadone but as an increasing number of reports demonstrate, heroin substitutes like Methadone now account for one - third of drug - related deaths in Scotland.

In light of a recent spike in suspected opioid - related deaths in Erie County, an Erie County legislator is proposing an increase in funding to make treatment services more accessible to those who seek help but can not afford it.

Mr. Cuomo's operation pointed to his track record for the black community, including increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and issuing an executive order naming the state attorney general as a special prosecutor for police - related civilian deaths.

The report, «Drugs for Dollars: How Medicaid Helps Fuel the Opioid Epidemic,» highlighted how increased access to addictive painkilling drugs was a factor — though not the only factor — in the growing drug - related death toll.

One challenge we heard about recently from Great Lakes Today is an increase in the lead related deaths of bald eagles.

A rise in drug - related deaths and increases in prescription abuse leading to heroin addiction are some of the reasons for new and innovative tactics.

«Heat - related deaths have been decreasing over time in part due to the development of warning systems that have increased awareness of what to do and saved lives,» he says.

In 2016, key factors driving the increased likelihood of early death for those aged 20 to 55 included substance abuse, suicide, and alcohol - related conditions.

Which led a couple of researchers in Canada to wonder if there was any evidence for an increase in traffic deaths related to the occasion.

Opioid related deaths contributed to the first increase in the death rate in the United States in more than two decades — an uptick last seen at the height of the HIV / AIDs epidemic in 1993 — and factored into a year - over-year decline in the nation's life expectancy rate in 2015, according to an expert addressing a congressional briefing and a related presentation on the opioid epidemic at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's headquarters on May 10.

Stephen Waldron / AAAS Opioid related deaths contributed to the first increase in the death rate in...

The study, which examined the association between infertility and mortality as well as specific causes of death, also showed that women with a history of infertility have a 20 percent increased risk of cancer - related mortality.

Yet even with the cross-race increases in deaths related to pregnancy, in 2007 the maternal mortality rate for black women was still nearly three times higher than the rate for white women.

That increase will elevate the risk of heat - related deaths.

The National Institute of Drug Abuse has found that increasing access to medication assisted treatment decreases opioid use, deaths related to overdoses, crime and the transmission of diseases, Boyle said, though the approach is not being used enough.

«A sedentary lifestyle increases the propensity to aging - related disease and premature death,» researchers at King's College London report today in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

Levine noted that causal relationships — such as that between increased exposure to guns and increased risk of gun - related death — can be very difficult to pinpoint.

One of the obvious consequences of increased development will be more deaths and injuries from traffic accidents, and tobacco - related deaths are also expected to surge, accounting for 10 percent of all fatalities by 2015.

As so few patients survive, the increase in deaths is very closely related to the increase in incidence of this disease.

Over a median follow - up of nearly eight years, patients who were current smokers had a 40 % increased risk of cancer relapse, as well as more than 2 - times increased risks of cancer spread and cancer - related death, compared with patients who were never smokers.

The results, published in the December 8 issue of Science, suggest a direct relationship between increased exposure to guns and the risk of gun - related deaths, said Wellesley College researchers Phillip Levine and Robin McKnight.