Yet of the 470, 000 women who contract the disease worldwide each year (15, 000 in the U.S.), half die within five years.
It uses intense water pressure to shape a car's steel body panels on half a stamping die.
"I know that it's possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat, " he said.
Without a valve replacement operation, half of these patients die within two years, yet many are too weak to have one.
The conditions on the long journey were so hazardous that it was not uncommon for half the workers to die before they reached the estates.
Marking Malaria Day in Uganda, Health Minister Dr Crispus Kiyonga said about 70, 000 Ugandans die of malaria each year, half of them children under five.
One-half of those who die from chronic diseases are in their productive years and so the social costs and economic consequences in terms of lost productivity are considerable.
About half a million women die each year during pregnancy and childbirth from complications that could easily be treated or prevented if they had access to appropriate care.
Nearly half a million Americans die from smoking--related illnesses each year, the biggest reversible mortality statistic in the Western world, yet 46 million adults and 3.2 million teenagers in the U.S. continue to puff away.
She seems to believe the answer is yes, pointing to the half-million women who die from breast cancer worldwide each year.
In some southern African countries, half of new mothers could soon die of AIDS. Epidemics are emerging in China, India, eastern Europe and countries in the former Soviet Union.
Up to half of hospitalized patients with MRSA die with it, although it is hard to parse out how many of the deaths are due to the infection and how many are due to the underlying illnesses that put them in the hospital in the first place.
While the number of global vehicle passengers and drivers may not be known, the World Health Organization estimates that 1.2 million people die each year in road traffic accidents (roughly half of which are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists).
Half of all long-term smokers will die from tobacco-related illness, which causes 100, 000 deaths a year.
It also shows a quarter of those who die in fires have alcohol in their systems and over half of alcohol-related fires happen because someone has fallen asleep.
Half of all those exposed instantaneously to four sieverts die within 30 days.
It sheds the newer Cortex-A15 architecture of the Tegra 4 for a spruced-up 2.3GHz Cortex-A9 with the i500 LTE modem built directly into the chip die -- a move that cuts the surface area in half and simplifies the hardware, even as it supposedly outruns equivalent competition.
If the trend is mirrored in China, half of an estimated 200 million men who smoke could die from tobacco-related diseases in the next three decades.
AIDS. New data from studies in Tanzania and Uganda show that well over half the people who reach voting age can expect to die before retirement.
The authors, from the University of California, San Francisco, noted that even when DCIS becomes an invasive cancer, it's treatable when found at an early stage: The odds that a 60-year old woman with a 7 millimeter breast tumor, would die from it in the next 10 years are less than 3%, half the risk she faces of dying from another cause during that time.
Half a billion get the disease every year and more than a million die of it.
But fewer than half manage this says the NHS, which warns 25, 000 people die each year from hospital-acquired DVT.
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Almost half of patients with the multi-drug resistant form of the disease die.
In the case of kidney procedures, it is estimated that half of those over 60 years of age on the transplant waiting list will die while awaiting a transplant.
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Sixty percent of myeloma patients die within five years, but Giusti beat the odds, living for a decade and a half through multiple rounds of drug therapy and a bone marrow transplant from her twin sister.
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