Recently widowed people were at greater risk of dying than married people

Washington State cancer patients found to be at greater risk for bankruptcy than people without a cancer diagnosis.

Much has been written about the relationship between high medical expenses and the likelihood of filing for bankruptcy, but the relationship between receiving a cancer diagnosis and filing for bankruptcy is less well understood. We estimated the incidence and relative risk of bankruptcy for people age twenty-one or older diagnosed with cancer compared to people the same age without cancer by co...

Of what diseases are Nepalese people dying?

Alcohol-related parasuicide among married people.

Although parasuicide has been widely studied, its indirect relationship with alcohol abuse has received less attention. The present study examines the incidence of alcohol-related parasuicide at a Pietermaritzburg general hospital. Over 40% of married parasuicide women cited their husbands' abuse of alcohol and its associated violent behaviour as precipitants to their self-destructive acts. How...

Communicating with dying people and their relatives

Sir-In a study of constitutional restriction fragment length polymorphisms at the HRAS1 locus in patients with small cell (SCLC) and non-small cell cancer (NSCLC) of the lung and in a control group we reported earlier differences in the distribution of the common alleles between these three groups (Heighway et al., 1986). The main difference was a relative increase of the number of individuals ...

Extraction of Drug Crime Patterns and Identifying People at Risk Using Data Mining Techniques

Introduction: In recent years, technology advancement and the growth of information technology in organizations have provided a huge source of data stored in the field of drug-related offenses. Analyzing these data and discovering hidden patterns in it can help detect and prevent the occurrence of crimes in this area. This paper aimed to identify the susceptible people to drug trafficking in Si...