News tagged with mortality reduction

Filthy toilets a blight on Asian prosperity

Fast-growing Asian economies may be flush with money but filthy toilets remain a blight across the region despite rising standards of living, with dire effects on poverty reduction and public health.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

For many, mammography every other year has benefits of annual screening, but less harm

A comprehensive analysis of various mammography screening schedules suggests that biennial (every two years) screening of average risk women between the ages of 50 and 74 achieves most of the benefits of annual screening, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1