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Statistics for neurological health vs. death
Friends and I have been discussing mental health and lifespan due to examples of family members with dementia who could live for another 15-20 years vs. family members whose minds were sharp as a tack ...
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What is meant by "declaration of brain stem death is made mandatory for every hospital"?
I am an activist working for organ donation popularization in India, a country with a dismally low rate (0.5 per million). Apart from working for deceased donation, I had also offered my own organs as ...
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What are the most age-invariant causes of death?
Which causes of death have the most (roughly) constant incidence rate among all age groups, and what are the mechanisms whereby those causes of death have this property? (Any answer can of course look ...
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Can anyone help me find this case of a boy who died from an OR mistake during tonsillectomy?
I realize that this is obscure.
In the 1990s, I remember reading an article in either Time or Newsweek about how a hospital that screwed up a tonsillectomy, resulting in the death of their young ...
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Does high level of pain alone (without fatal physical injury) necessarily lead to faint or death? [duplicate]
It is known that pain can stimulate the vagus nerve which could cause faint and extreme pain can cause cardiac arrest, which could lead to death.
But is it just the pain causing the faint or death, ...
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What kills more people worldwide each year, cold or heat?
What kills more people worldwide each year, cold or heat?
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Which-Kills-More-People-Extreme-Heat-or-Extreme-Cold
The above article points out that in the USA, NOAA says ...
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Risks to quick vaccine development?
I've heard that the longer a virus is in a population the less deadly it becomes. Something about deadliness being selected out from generation to generation.
Had me thinking that with the speed of ...
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Would a person with high body fat survive longer without food?
Considering the following information:
The more fat stores available, the longer a person can typically survive during starvation. Once the fat stores have been completely metabolized, the body then ...
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How do I stop my doctor from killing me? [closed]
In the international best-selling author, Dr Vernon Coleman's book 'how to stop your doctor killing you', he explains that the person most likely to kill you is not a burglar, a mugger, a deranged ...
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What is causing recent increase in R00-R99 deaths?
US CDC publishes provisional counts of deaths by select causes. This year, weekly deaths associated with ICD-10 codes R00-R99 increased from approximately 600 to more than 3,000. Those codes ...
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What are ASDH and AS in the context of "cause of death"?
I'm not sure this is technically the correct place to ask this question, but I know I need medical expertise so hear I am. I have been researching my family genealogy recently and, of special interest ...
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Can someone die of asphyxiation while still having high oxygen saturation?
If someone at the time of death has high measured oxygen saturation (eg 98%) is it still possible that they died of asphyxiation? In other words, does death via asphyxiation always kill by reducing ...
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Is the number of deaths (1,913) amongst people who received a COVID-19 vaccine higher than amongst people who didn't receive a COVID-19 vaccine?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states:
Over 109 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020, through March 15, 2021. During this ...
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What are the most common ways that COVID kills?
Looking at the death counts for 2020 published on the CDC's website, total deaths "involving COVID-19" were 375,581, but total deaths "involving COVID-19 and pneumonia" were only ...
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Why do weekly deaths in the UK dramatically decrease during the end of December / beginning of January?
Looking at the weekly death statistics or the UK (something a few of us may have started the morbid habit of doing), I noticed an interesting phenomenon which seems to happen every year.
The reports ...
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