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Mortality
Can harvesting young blood help the aging process?
Jul 24, 2017
At least two companies have started doing human trials.
Study: Less-educated white people face alarming mortality increases
Mar 23, 2017
There's an alarming increase in suicides among less-educated Americans, the Brookings Institution reports.
When is it a good time to go to the hospital? When the doctors are being watched
Mar 21, 2017
Want to know when it’s a good time to go to the hospital? Seems it’s when the doctors are being watched. Every few years the accrediting agency known as the Joint Commission conducts random hospital inspections. A new study out in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine finds that mortality rates drop when the inspectors show […]
U.S. death rate increases for the first time in a decade
Jun 1, 2016
A spike in white mortality could be driving this larger death trend.