India has shown real progress in reducing child mortality over the past decade.
Periodic outbreaks of pandemic influenza have been a devastating cause of human mortality over the past century.
In 1986, in The New England Journal of Medicine, John Bailar and Elaine Smith published a cold assessment of comparative trends in cancer mortality over the years.
This increase can lead to a substantial increase in mortality over the next decades, especially in vulnerable groups, unless adaptation measures are taken.
The discovery of antimicrobial drugs and their subsequent use has offered an effective treatment option for bacterial infections, reducing morbidity and mortality over the past 60 years.
Measured CWD properties were combined with inventory records of tree mortality over the study duration to characterize CWD production, decay and yield in a series of prediction equations.
Shin, H. H. et al. Meta-analysis methods to estimate the shape and uncertainty in the association between long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and cause-specific mortality over the global concentration range.
An analysis published in March concluded that the standard (PSA) test produces so many false positives and – more dangerously – false negatives that it has "no significant effect on prostate cancer mortality" over the following 10 years.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mortality over the 30-day study period, resolution of organ failures, and safety.
In-hospital mortality over the study period was 21.6% (95% confidence interval (CI); 18.6 24.9).
Despite a consistent decline in infant mortality over the last decade or so, these rates remain high in India.
