Article: Cancer Death Rate Declined for First Time Ever in 1990s

Article: Cancer death rate in Mass. overtakes that of heart ...
The Boston Globe;  November 18, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... The age-adjusted death rate is distinct from the actual ... consider the age-adjusted death rate a good indicator of public ... number of lives, with a 42 percent jump in deaths in one ... adjusted heart disease death rate dropped from 197.7 deaths ...

Article: Estimated SARS Death Rate Rises to 15%; WHO Revises ...
The Washington Post;  May 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... 24 or younger, but the death rate jumps to 6 percent at ages 25 to 44, to ... typical flu season has a death rate of less than 1 percent. The devastating Spanish ... Hong Kong currently has a death rate of 11 percent to 17 percent, compared ...

Article: Death Rate for Global Outbreak Rising
The Washington Post;  April 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... percent. For those older than 75, the death rate is 28.6 percent. In Canada, the death rate yesterday as reported by the World Health ... SARS and 263 deaths worldwide, for a death rate of 5.92 percent. Lipsitch said a larger number of cases ...

Article: CANCER DEATH RATE DECLINES FOR UNDER-55S.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 8, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... attributes much of the 7 percent decline between 1975 and 1984 in the death rate for the group to ... nation's cancer death rate rose 4.2 percent from 1975 to 1984 ... The colon cancer death rate has been dropping about 0.6 percent annually and was ...

Article: EU MED World SARS Virus Death Rate, HFR
AP Worldstream;  May 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Hong Kong at nearly 20 percent Eds: RECASTS lede to RAISE death rate for older patients ... spread, says the death rate ranges from 6 percent to 10 percent, depending ... have been older, the death rate is 15 percent, he said. What we ...

Article: Death Rate From SARS Is Expected To Increase; Age ...
The Washington Post;  May 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Prevention estimates a death rate of 6.6 percent. The mortality rate ... example, had an estimated death rate of less than 3 percent, but it killed perhaps ... epidemic has ended, the death rate was about 8 percent, while in Canada, the ...

Article: WHO: Death rate is about 15%.
Respiratory Therapeutics Week;  June 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... amp; NewsRx.net) -- The overall death rate from SARS worldwide is about 15% - double ... dying. Until now, WHO had estimated the death rate to be between 6% and 10%. The new ... and Vietnam. A new study estimated the death rate in Hong Kong to be about 20% overall ...