Tag: mortality
Still grim statistics on child mortality
Published: Less than 30 min ago full screenClean water is one of the possibilities to reduce child mortality. Here a protest with demands for better water quality in Manaure in…
Still grim statistics on child mortality
Child mortality and youth mortality are usually divided into two categories: children who die before their fifth birthday and those who die between the ages of 5 and 24. The…
Infant mortality: no, it is not on the rise “because” of the anti-Covid vaccination
News Published on 01/02/2023 at 3:57 p.m. Updated 01/02/2023 at 3:57 p.m. Reading 3 mins. A study by Inserm published by The Lancet last March clearly evokes an increase in…
excess mortality of more than 16% linked to Covid-19 and the heat wave
In France, the summer of 2022 was marked by an excess mortality of 10,420 deaths, partly linked to high temperatures and Covid-19, according to an estimate published on November 21…
Covid-19: involved in the excess mortality of foreigners, “front line jobs” and “public transport”
In a study carried out by INED and Inserm, in partnership with Public Health France and the Institut convergences migrations, researchers showed that the excess mortality observed during the first…
Higher maternal mortality in the United States during the pandemic
Above all, the pandemic has hit African-American and Hispanic pregnant women, says one new report fixed. Overall, pregnancy-related deaths have increased by almost 80 percent since 2018. In 2021, covid-19…
Biden wants to halve cancer mortality
Published: Less than 20 min ago fullscreen US President Joe Biden has issued a presidential order to strengthen the country’s biotech sector. Photo: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP/TT US President Joe Biden has…
Biden wants to halve cancer mortality
The president wants to strengthen government-backed initiatives to coordinate and finance the fight against cancer, with the goal of halving the disease’s death rate within the next 25 years. Biden…
Vitamin D does not appear to be effective in reducing fracture risk or mortality
Two recent clinical trials suggest that the popular belief that vitamin D supplementation protects against fractures and extends life expectancy, rooted in the biochemical mechanisms in which vitamin D is…
the “massive” mortality of black sea urchins in Guadeloupe worries
In Guadeloupe, marine biology experts are concerned about massive mortality affecting diadem sea urchins. This herbivorous species, essential for the balance of coral ecosystems, had already been decimated in the…