BOSTON'S DEATH RATE

Death rate mystery

Knowing the true rate of death from covid-19 will help us fight the pandemic, but for the moment it eludes us, reports Michael Le Page.  

Death of microbial cells: rate constant calculations.

The previously published procedure for calculation of rate constants associated with the death of microbial cells is shown to be so sensitive to variation in experimental data as to render it impractical for this application. The only obvious modification to the published procedure met with only limited success. It is concluded that a fresh search should be undertaken for the solution to this f...

Heart rate variability and brain death.

Legal pot, lower opioid death rate.

An article on the study, " Medical cannabis laws and opioid analgesic overdose mortality in the United States, 1999-2010, " was published in the October 2014 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine. In an invited commentary about the study published in the same issue, Marie of Maine, wrote: " The striking implication is that medical marijuana laws, when implemented, may represent a promising approach f...

Age-Adjusted US Cancer Death Rate Predictions.

The likelihood of developing cancer during one's lifetime is approximately one in two for men and one in three for women in the United States. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death and accounts for one in every four deaths. Evidence-based policy planning and decision making by cancer researchers and public health administrators are best accomplished with up-to-date age-adjusted site-speci...