Article: Science looks at smoking. ('disease detectives' measure the dangers from cigarette smoking including death from cancer and other smoking-related causes)
Highlights for Children;  November 1, 1997 ;     695 words ......higher chances of death. By doing this same...dying from different diseases. The graph shows...find that so many diseases were affected by...together, the chances of death were 70 percent greater...who died of these diseases had to be sick first...years. So chances of death also ...

Article: Death rates for heart disease, cancer continue to decrease in US.(Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Transplant News;  July 27, 2001 ;     302 words ......other leading causes of death showed increases including...chronic lower respiratory diseases - 4%, and diabetes - 3.3...among the leading causes of death in the US, HIV infection...and is the leading cause of death for black men in this age...The 5 leading causes of death in 1999 in order ...

Article: I shot a man in Reno; a history of death by murder, suicide, fire, flood, drugs, disease, and general misadventure, as related in popular song.(Brief article)(Book review)
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2008 ;     137 words ...9780826428578 I shot a man in Reno; a history of death by murder, suicide, fire, flood, drugs...journalist and author, documents references to death, disease, murder, suicide and natural disasters...concludes with a list of the 40 Greatest Death Records of All Time. ([c]20082005 Book...

Article: Few extra pounds do not raise risk of death from cancer, heart disease, but being obese does
AP Worldstream;  November 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ......height _ have a higher risk of death from a variety of ills, including...looking at specific causes of death along with new mortality figures...people who died from various diseases. In many cases, the risks of death were substantial for obese...help people battle certain diseases, Flegal ...

Article: Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.(Review)(Brief Article)
Contemporary Review;  August 1, 2001 ;     210 words ...Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. Roy Porter. Reaktion Books. [pound...medicine was 'a quasi-religious morality play.., ad dressing life and death...' This somewhat intellectualised account of medical history seeks...

Article: Eugene O'Neill Autopsy Results Revealed; Alcoholism, Parkinson's Disease Were Not Factors in American Playwright's Death.
Business Wire;  April 12, 2000 ;     522 words ......anatomical proof of his actual cause of death. Reporting in the April 13 issue of the...suggest that for at least 25 years before his death, he did not use alcohol in excess and that...into the true cause of Eugene O'Neill's death, said Price. Price co-authored the paper...

Article: Poor fitness increases risk of death in women more than in men.(Health care: spotlight on heart disease)
San Fernando Valley Business Journal;  October 13, 2003 ;     569 words ......physical fitness was a stronger predictor of death than other measures, such as the Framingham...Researchers compared women's exercise capacity to death from all causes during the next eight years...was a 17 percent decrease in the risk of death, Gulati said. A similar study on men without...

Article: New Data Shows Death Rates from Alzheimer's Disease Skyrocketing.
Business Wire;  November 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......First Time, Alzheimer's Disease Makes the Top 10 Causes of Death in LA County and as Population Ages it Will Only Get Worse...of Public Health announced new data showing the rate of death from Alzheimer's disease growing at a dramatic pace. New data shows that from 1994 to 2003, death rates from ...

Article: Sensitivity of death certificate data for monitoring diabetes mortality - diabetic eye disease follow-up study, 1985-1990.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  November 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ......To determine whether diabetes was underreported on the death certificates of patients with known diabetic eye disease, CDC analyzed data from death certificates for persons identified as deceased by the...CDC's National Center for Health Statistics coded the death certificates by the underlying causes of ...

Article: Contribution of selected metabolic diseases to early childhood deaths--Virginia, 1996-2001.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  July 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......sudden unexplained death beyond infancy might...unrecognized metabolic diseases (2-4). Tandem mass...screening for these diseases is required. However...The median age at death of the eight children...histories and manners of death that were consistent...history of these diseases ...

Article: Contagious Diseases
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society;      700+ words ...Contagious Diseases Death in early childhood was a heartbreaking...families. Nearly all died of contagious diseases. Definition of Contagious Disease Contagious...common usage the word usually applies to diseases that are highly infectious and dangerous...

Article: CDC says bacteria in donor tissue caue of Minnesota man's death after routine knee surgery.(Centers for Disease Control (CDC))(Brief Article)
Transplant News;  December 15, 2001 ;     382 words ......report that donor tissue for knee surgery can cause illness or death. The CDC has yet to determine where or when the donor tissues...he said. The donors could have been infected at the time of death or contamination could have occurred as tissues were collected...

Article: Heart disease: the nation's leading cause of death.(Cover Story)
Montana Business Quarterly;  September 22, 1997 ;     417 words ......1 billion on cardiovascular diseases. Direct costs include physicians...the single leading cause of death in America today. * 13.7 million...Studies show that the risk of death from heart disease is much greater...people. * From 1984 to 1994 the death rate from heart attack declined...

Article: Merck Announces the Death of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman; Dr. Hilleman Pioneered Development of Vaccines for Dozens of Diseases.
Business Wire;  April 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ......today announced the death of Maurice R. Hilleman...protect millions from diseases ranging from pandemic...president. At the time of his death, Dr. Hilleman was Adjunct...Department of Respiratory Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute...of its most important diseases. He published over 500...