Search Tag: life expectancy

IMAGING Management

New-poll-explores-attitudes-of-older-adults-on-cancer-screening-guidelines

2023 05 Oct

In the United States, various cancer screening guidelines provide recommended starting and stopping ages for regular screenings. However, there's a growing shift towards considering additional factors beyond age in these guidelines, such as estimated life expectancy, overall health status, and past screening history, all of which contribute to making...Read more

Cardiology Management

Effect-of-covid-19-on-life-expectancy

2021 27 Jun

According to latest findings, decreases in life expectancy during 2020 were much larger in the United States than in other high income countries, particularly among Hispanic and Black Americans.  The findings show that between 2018 and 2020, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased by almost two years - 8.5 times the average decrease in 16 other comparable...Read more

Cardiology Management

Life-expectancy-and-mortality-rates-in-the-us

2019 01 Dec

Examining life expectancy in the United States over nearly 60 years and identifying factors that contributed to recent increases in mortality were the focus of a new report. The report, "Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017," is one of the most comprehensive 50-state analyses of mortality in the US. Researchers...Read more

Executive Health Management

Cash-cow-infographic

2019 13 Nov

An overview of healthcare industry revenue, growth and expenditures.  Read more

Executive Health Management

High-healthcare-costs-but-poor-outcomes-in-u-s

2018 13 Mar

New Harvard-led research shows the U.S. spent nearly twice as much as other high-income countries on medical care in 2016, yet had poorer population health outcomes (e.g.,lowest life expectancy and highest infant mortality rate). The main drivers of higher healthcare costs in the U.S. are generally high prices – for salaries of physicians and nurses,...Read more

Cardiology Management

Greater-life-expectancy-with-high-volume-surgeons

2017 05 May

A study conducted by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals that surgeons who perform more than 25 mitral valve operations a year are more likely to perform repairs that are durable. Their patients are also more likely to be alive a year after the operation as compared to operations that are performed by lower-volume surgeons....Read more

IT Management

Big-data-can-a-computer-tell-when-your-time-is-up

2016 31 Mar

Statisticians, computer scientists and medics from the University of East Anglia are launching a new project to predict how long you will live. They will use ‘Big Data’ to predict life expectancy – and particularly how various chronic diseases and their treatments impact longevity. While many people may not want to know how long they...Read more

ICU Management

Critical-care-in-syria-grim-reality

2016 26 Jan

A report from the Syrian-American Medical Society details the health crisis in war-torn Syria and efforts to help bolster what remains of the country's healthcare system. Responding to this crisis has been made difficult by the targeting of hospitals and healthcare workers, primarily by the government but also by the rebels, according to the report...Read more

IMAGING Management

Screening-in-older-people-when-not-to

2016 22 Jan

Researchers in the U.S. have found that nearly 16 percent of individuals 65 years or older may have received non-recommended screenings for breast and prostate cancers because they had limited life expectancies of less than 10 years. The finding, reported in JAMA Oncology , could help inform measures to curb unnecessary and potentially harmful cancer...Read more

Cardiology Management

Study-reveals-england-s-improving-health-performance

2015 15 Sep

According to new research published in The Lancet , in 2013 England performed better than average on a variety of key health outcomes as compared to 18 other high-income countries in the European Union, Canada, Norway and the U.S. However, the findings reveal substantial health disparities within English regions.  Professor John Newton from Public...Read more

Cardiology Management

Life-expectancy-lower-with-combination-of-diabetes-stroke-or-heart-attack

2015 07 Jul

According to a study published in JAMA, analysis of nearly 1.2 million participants and more than 135,000 deaths showed that mortality associated with a history of diabetes, stroke, or heart attack was similar for each condition, and the risk of death increased substantially with each additional condition a patient had. Prevalence of cardiometabolic...Read more

Executive Health Management

Higher-mortality-for-hospital-patients-with-alcohol-addiction

2015 07 Apr

The mortality of alcohol dependent patients in general hospitals is many times higher than that of patients without alcohol dependency. In addition, they die about 7.6 years earlier on average than hospital patients without a history of alcohol addiction. This is what scientists from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University...Read more

Executive Health Management

Aggressive-prostate-cancer-treatment-defies-guidelines

2014 10 Dec

The first study of its kind by UCLA researchers has found that despite the fact that more than half of prostate cancer patients 66 years of age and older have life expectancies of less than ten years, half of them are over-treated for prostate cancer with surgery, radiation or brachytherapy. National guidelines recommend that men with life expectancy of...Read more