New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community
The country's leading African-American lawmakers, civil rights leaders and medical experts today called on the federal government to adopt and implement a new blueprint to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in the African-American community. The plan is outlined in a new report, African-Americans, Health Disparities and HIV/AIDS: Recommendations for Confronting the Epidemic in Black America, written by...The latest job-creation statistics on Wisconsin may surprise you.
Source: UW Communications Statistically speaking, the only wrong answer is (a) Madison. Although the unemployment rate in Wisconsins cap...Detecting Epidemics using statistics
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health has awarded the $3 million, five-year award of national Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) grants to // the Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care-led research team. The goal of this project is to develop powerful mathematical and statistical modeling techniques. Th...Blazing Statistics: Burn Victims in USA Are Old and Poor
The HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has reported that more than $726 million , roughly 45% of the changes to treat burn victims is billed to Medicare or Medicaid, government programs intended for the senior// citizens and the under privileged. According to statistics, the average charge is $59,600 for Medicare patients and $47,400 for Medicaid patients; the average cha...Fat chance: Live Statistics of an English Man
Not withstanding the Englishman’s love for beer and fast food, here’s some live statistics about how English men make their presence felt longer on the planet, beating other European counterparts hollow.// A significant report based on official statistics, has communicated that the average life expectancy for English men is 76.6 years, ranked second highest, in the European Union, whic...Stress Statistics May Leave You Stressed Out
Malaysia: Asians can do well with stress busters. According to a world wide survey, Businessmen in Malaysia are a stressed lot, with Taiwan on top of the list. China, the Philippines,// Botswana, Hong Kong and Singapore follow suit in the order of their ranks on the “Stressed Out” Statistics. Businessmen became the targets of a study by the researchers, where 7000 businessmen from 30 c...More Accidents on England’s Road - Statistics Revea
According to hospital statistics, government figures show only half of the serious injuries are taking place on England's roads. But in reality many accidents// happen to occur on the busy roads of England. Government targets for England look to reduce by 40% overall the number of serious injuries and deaths on the nation's roads by 2010, (compared with a starting point - baseline - of...