MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'fatality'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:33:26 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3924857&cid=t_221437_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007456.html Want to live a long long time and get rejuvenation therapies? First avoid dying in an air accident in a less developed country. HANOVER, MD, September 1, 2010 – Passengers who fly in Developing World countries face 13 times the risk of being killed in an air accident as passengers in the First World. The more economically advanced countries in the Developing World have better overall safety records than the others, but even their death risk per flight is seven times as high as that in First World countries. These results come from research by Arnold Barnett, a prof at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Click thru and read the details if you plan to fly outside the most developed... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3924857 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3924857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2715941&cid=t_221437_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006463.html Want to guess? At least in the United States the second biggest unintentional injury killer (leaving aside murders and suicides) killer? Beware poisons. In 2005, 23,618 (72%) of the 32,691... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2715941 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2715941 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2709131&cid=t_221437_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006457.html Forbes has a useful article about the most dangerous times to drive. Do you wear a seat belt? Or are you trying to avoid getting old? Nationwide, 49% of fatal... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2709131 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2709131 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2741115&cid=t_221437_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FVirologyBlog%2F%7E3%2FI40CaL3fkHI%2F WHO reports that as of 15 June 2009, 76 countries have officially reported 35, 928 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 163 deaths. These numbers can be used to calculate a case fatality ratio (CFR) of 0.45%. Is this number an accurate indication of the lethality of influenza? Determining how many people die from influenza is a tricky business. The main problem is that not every influenza virus infection is confirmed by laboratory testing. For example, early in the Mexico H1N1 outbreak, the apparent CFR was much higher because the total number of infections had not been established. Even with the intense surveillance being conducted at the onset of this pandemic, many infections are still not diagnosed. Virologic surveillance is likely become even more incomplete as health syste... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2741115 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:30:24 +0100 2741115 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424088&cid=t_221437_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F05%2Fcough-or-kill%2F I am a belligerent skeptic of over-the-counter cough and cold medications. I’ve been this way since well before I ever entertained the idea of being a doctor. The late Michael Shannon (also known as the ‘dancing doctor‘) nicely summed up the problems with this group of medications: ‘The problem with cough and cold medications are two-fold. One, they [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424088 Wed, 20 May 2009 15:14:02 +0100 2424088 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469467&cid=t_221437_87_f&fid=35060&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthnewsblog.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fhnblog.pl%3Fhnblog%3D519091 An MSNBC.com article quotes Dr. Anne Schuchat of the CDC as saying the fatality rate for H1N1 swine flu appears to be slightly higher than that of seasonal flu. These contradicts what many health officials have been saying - that the H1N1 virus is no more severe than seasonal flu. Dr. Anne Schucat also says there are 200 people hospitalized with swine flu and more deaths are expected. "We wonder whether this strain will continue during the summer and give us more of a summer influenza pattern," said Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and public health program. "Unfortunately, we don't know whether we're going to get a break this summer with this virus." So far, the fatality rate for the novel virus appears to be slightly higher than for seasonal influenza, which contributes t... HealthNewsBlog.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469467 Tue, 19 May 2009 20:00:00 +0100 2469467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2095852&cid=t_221437_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F01%2F11%2Fcalorie-counting-at-the-fast-food-counter%2F Pages: 1 2 Next »     Single Page Massachusetts is likely to join California, New York City and Seattle in requiring some sort of calorie count next to food items in restaurant chains in the state. Jeff Jacoby writes in today’s Boston Globe about how this amounts to an ineffective attempt by Big Government to further nanny our everyday lives. I see it differently, based upon the research. Let’s start with the basics. More information generally helps people make better informed decisions in their lives. It helps to know, for instance, how much gas a car uses, so the government forces car manufacturers to post MPG results for each of their cars (despite the expensive testing procedure needed to produce this number). The government also compiles fatality a... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2095852 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:54:06 +0100 2095852