Although the population in the United States is aging, it seems that deaths due to cancer are dropping, say researchers. This decline has been occurring over the past 50 years.
A study published recently in the journal Cancer Research said:
Age-specific cancer mortality rates have been steadily declining in the United States since the early 1950s, beginning with children and young adults and now including all age groups. During the second half of the 20th century, each successive decade of births from 1925 to 1995 experienced a lower risk of cancer death than its predecessor at virtually every age for which such …read more

You’ve likely heard by now. After weeks of hesitating, the World Health Organization has declared the H1N1 virus infections to be a Level 6 on the pandemic scale, which means a pandemic has been announced. The thing is, your life is still the same. My life is still the same. Nothing has changed from the five minutes before the announcement and five minutes after the announcement. That’s what people need to remember before beginning to panic.
Here is some information that may help you learn more about pandemics, viruses, etc.
What’s the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?

The World Health Organization will be holding an emergency meeting today to discuss the newest developments in the H1N1 virus situation across the world.
Here you can see a map of the spread of the virus , and here are the statistics of the various countries that have reported cases so far.
So far, 69 countries have officially reported 21,940 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 125 deaths.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says that “at least two influenza shots will be needed to protect against both the seasonal form of the disease and the new swine flu.”

An advisory group meets May 14th, however, before drug makers will be given the go-ahead to producing a swine flu vaccine. Part of this decision rests in the manufacturers and when they will be ready to make the new virus, officially known as A/H1N1. In just a couple short weeks, the virus has spread to countries including the United States. However, WHO wants to make certain the vaccine …read more

April 25, 2009 has been designated World Malaria Day. People who live in many parts of the world don’t worry about malaria, for the most part, but they should. Malaria is a disease that affects almost half of the world’s population in some way.
According to the World Health Organization :
Approximately half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria, particularly those living in lower-income countries. It infects more than 500 million people per year and kills more than 1 million. The burden of malaria is heaviest in sub-Saharan Africa but the disease also afflicts Asia, Latin America, the …read more

Yep, you read that correctly. It’s Monday Sanity. Which, doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as Saturday Sanity, but I left town early Friday morning and was unfortunately unable to give Saturday Sanity the attention it deserves. Rather than just wait until next weekend, however (there’s a lot of good, or at least thought-provoking, stuff to report!), I decided to present it a couple of days late.
Enjoy!
This week at Mental Health Notes, I praised Britney Spears and Kellie Pickler, pointed you in the direction of Ingrid Newkirk’s video about One Can Make a Difference, gushed on and on …read more