The ranking, which has been published by United Health for 21 years, measures residents of each state on 22 activities that can predict future health, such as smoking and exercising, as well as events that have already occurred, like deaths or violent crime.
The reports dig deep into the data gathered from doctors, hospitals and other health officials to outline things like number of deaths, flu-related hospitalizations and a breakdown of strains.
Instead, he said it focussed on what success would look like - better dementia care, less premature deaths from things like heart disease and cancer - leaving it to the NHS to decide how best to go about it.
To Krumholz, this is part of a larger tapestry of unexpected clinical trial results that should make doctors, patients and regulators demand more hard information about whether drugs reduce symptoms or prevent problems like heart attacks and deaths.
If we can help people do more physical exercise - especially when they are at risk of illness or recovering from it - we can cut the number of deaths from conditions like heart disease and stroke.
Running through the yellowing subsidiary wire stories on papal deaths of yesteryear was like opening a time capsule.
Sensational headlines trumpet the moral transgressions or violent deaths of hip hoppers like Tupac Shakur and Jam Master Jay.
Only giant clinical trials measuring hard outcomes like heart attacks, strokes and deaths can tell doctors whether a heart drug's benefits outweigh its risks.
And they threw out other studies like the ones that showed decreases in wintertime deaths because of methodological problems.
At that moment, like a great chord, all the different deaths come together.
"Over the past 30 years in Scotland our level of deaths directly caused by alcohol, conditions like alcoholic cirrhosis and alcoholic heart disease, has almost tripled, " the letter said.
Indur Goklany, a much-published scholar on the consequences of global warming policies, recently calculated that in 2010 alone, diversion of grain to biofuels (like ethanol) caused nearly 200, 000 excess deaths in the developing world because of increased prices.
Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world's top experts on the science of cholesterol, says a laser-like focus on LDL-lowering has been one reason deaths from cardiovascular disease are dropping.
After being contacted by families like the Nahums, McCaughey started the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
It could, they suggest, offer an insight into problems like Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious cause of mass bee deaths globally.
That is at least partly because of a concentration of women in workplaces like food and beverage stores, where 75% of all deaths were homicides.
That is at least partly because of a concentration of women in workplaces like food and beverage stores, where a majority of all deaths are homicides.
The deaths were not the result of an attack by dissident republicans like the Real IRA, though they keep trying.
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Indeed, the map of malaria deaths is striking: 94 percent of deaths from malaria occur in Africa, making the continent appear like a vast bloated blob.
Dorothy Ngoma, head of the main nursing union in Malawi, says countries like Britain have to take some responsibility for Malawi's appalling record on maternal deaths.
"It's unacceptable in a resource-rich country like the U.S. that we are seeing maternal- and pregnancy-related deaths trending upward, " she said.
And in the segments of the population that are most susceptible to the extreme effects of the flu -- like the elderly, who make up the majority of the cases of flu-related deaths -- the vaccinations are even less effective.
Ms Bellamy said 60% of child deaths in Pakistan could be avoided by focusing on a limited number of treatable diseases like diarrhoea, pneumonia and neonatal infections.
As we move into 2013, the NTSB will continue to work with Federal agencies like ONDCP and continue advocating for measures that will push us towards the goal of zero highway deaths due to substance-impaired driving.
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Cyclists insist that junctions like Elephant and Castle are life-threatening, especially when filled with heavy lorries, which account for many cycling deaths.
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Biden has publicly mentioned homing in on things like universal background checks and reviews of mental health policies as part of his possible recommendations to decrease gun-related deaths.
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