People generally don't build up assets to leave them to the IRS. Certainly Warren Buffett doesn't, though he favors a punitive death-tax rate.
Mormon Idaho, with its open gun laws and low gun-death rate, is pretty homogeneous.
Andy Burnham, Labour's health secretary, sought on November 30th to put the Basildon trust's deficiencies into a broader, more flattering context, in which the overall hospital-death rate is falling fast.
In 1948 one study of 2, 200 asthma patients found a fivefold-higher death rate for patients who inhaled epinephrine, a beta drug, versus those who hadn't.
Shockingly, after this fee was introduced, the officially-recorded death rate plunged.
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Patients aged 65 to 75 who received thrombolytic therapy had a 30-day death rate of 6.8%, compared with 9.8% for patients who did not get the medication.
Figures which take account of changes in the size and age of the UK population showed the alcohol-related death rate has hovered at around 18 deaths per 100, 000 men since 2003, after earlier increases.
Service Corp. blamed its poor earnings in part on a lower-than-expected death rate, for example (see box), although Stewart executives note that it's the number of deaths, not the rate, that drives funeral sales-and deaths in the U.S. were up 1% last year.
Medical records show New York-Presbyterian had a death rate of 3.93 percent for coronary bypass operations performed in 2001 -- higher than the 2.18 percent overall rate for the 35 hospitals in the state that perform them.
In December Pfizer stopped testing its experimental good-cholesterol drug, torcetrapib, after it boosted the death rate in a 15, 000-patient trial--even though it raised good cholesterol by 60% in past studies.
After the first month, in fact, the death rate among prostate-cancer patients during the PSA era was lower than it was among cancer-free men, according to the study.
Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out the latest research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows SUVs (sport utility vehicles) over 4, 500 pounds have a one-third lower death rate than cars below 2, 500 pounds.
Many researchers, however, point out that the 30-day stroke and death rate in stent patients was significantly higher (4.8%) than that of surgery patients (2.6%).
Three years ago David Pate, who runs the parent hospital of the renowned Texas Heart Institute, was alarmed to see that the Houston hospital had a 2% death rate for bypass surgery--slightly above the expected number.
Calabrese says that many poisons follow, instead, a U-shaped curve: The death rate goes down as the dose climbs from zero to a certain small amount, what you could call the optimal exposure.
The decrease in deaths from breast cancer accounted for 37 percent of the reduction in the death rate among women during the 15-year period.
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So while the NRA trains people in gun safety and publishes books about gun care, it avoids drawing a connection between the carelessness of law-abiding gun owners and America's still-high rate of needless gun death.
The death rate among babies whose mothers planned - and did - give birth at home was lower than the average for all births taken together - including those in a hospital, midwife-led unit, as well as at home.
The Dioula were found to have a homicide rate equivalent of one hundredth of a death per 1, 000 people per year, and a left-handedness rate of just 3%.
The reason for the shortfall: A decline in supply occasioned by the long-term fall in the car accident death rate has coincided with a growth in demand occasioned by aging demographics and breakthroughs in medicine.
Thanks to snus, moist smokeless tobacco in small pouches, Swedish men have the lowest smoking rate and the lowest rate of smoking-related disease and death in Europe.
The reported death toll gives the Middle East-based disease a case fatality rate of about 60%, similar to that of the feared H5N1 avian flu.
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The death rate was 2.1 percent with the open Roux-en-Y and 0.2 percent with the laparoscopic version. (Some patients who underwent the open Roux-en-Y had health factors that put them at greater risk for complications.) There were no deaths associated with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding.
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Enforcement of fire-safety rules in Russia is lax, contributing to a death rate from fires that is far higher than in many Western countries.
It said deaths among non-elective admissions at weekends had contributed to the hospital's death rate being 11% higher than the average NHS hospital.
They found that the death rate was highest for babies weighing less than 2kg () - 12 time more than for those born weighing 3.5kg or more.
He pointed out that in Sweden, rates of sudden infant death had - despite a fall in the early 1990s - returned to the same rate as in the 1970s.
The story here is also not awe-inspiring, but since spiking in the aftermath of the horrific 1998-99 debt default and recession-within-depression, there has been a steady downward tick in the crude death rate.
That is tantamount to a death sentence for a corporation that lives on its integrity--it was, at any rate, for Arthur Andersen.
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