In the first half of twentieth century, racial inequality in rate death from infectious disease was immense. every year 1906 to 1920, Black Americans cities died diseases at a higher than that urban White during 1918 influenza pandemic. We decompose mortality into three broad causes determine which were most influential. Our results suggest primarily driven by TB and flu--the two major respirat...

Dr. Kirby Sweitzer of Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio, assists a young patient during a recent visit to Honduras. More than a decade ago, Joan Buck, RN, surgical staff nurse, and Judy Melnyk, RN, surgery/operating room instructor — both longtime employees at Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio — started collecting clean but "contaminated" surgical materials for annual medical mission trip...

More than 10 million children die each year, most from preventable causes and almost all in poor countries. Six countries account for 50% of worldwide deaths in children younger than 5 years, and 42 countries for 90%. The causes of death differ substantially from one country to another, highlighting the need to expand understanding of child health epidemiology at a country level rather than in ...

Complaints to the NHS in England seem to be rising and reached almost 4000 every week of last year (2014-15), new data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre have shown. The annual report is a count of written complaints made by or on behalf of patients and received from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015. The centre’s statistics showed that 205 289 written complaints were made to the NH...