Since 2004, the National Cancer Institute has been conducting trials to see if CT scans (and standard chest X-rays) can reduce mortality in smokers by detecting lung cancer early.
My take-away from all this literature is that compared to being uninsured, Medicaid likely improves physical and mental health to some degree and may reduce mortality risk (the latter is much less certain).
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" He calls the medical device industry "a national treasure" and says of the heart failure device: "You tell me of any other therapies that can reduce mortality in that kind of profound way.
But now a group of Canadian and Tanzanian health innovators have joined forces to apply simple and safe mobile technologies to improve cervical cancer screening and thus potentially reduce mortality rates in the East African country.
"The devices enormously reduce the mortality and risk of sudden cardiac death" in at-risk patients, Reiner said.
The obvious targets were world agencies who bought immunizations in bulk to reduce child mortality in developing countries.
Millennium Development Goal No. 5, which calls on nations to reduce maternal mortality by three-fourths between 1990 and 2015.
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But while the scale of improvements in child survival is immense, globally we are still far short of achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 to reduce child mortality by two-thirds.
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Gates and 100 other powerful women from business, politics and non-profit organizations also attended a dinner at the elegant Hotel Schatzalp on Friday evening to discuss ways to reduce maternal mortality.
Hafsat runs a conditional cash transfer project for the state, where poor pregnant women are encouraged to use available healthcare facilities for safer pregnancies in a bid to reduce maternal mortality rates.
Mr Mitchell told the BBC's Politics Show that if the government were to meet its eight Millennium development goals - including eradicating extreme hunger and reduce child mortality - it would have to "operate where poverty is greatest".
Improving water resource management, increasing access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and promoting hygiene can improve the quality of life of billions of individuals, as well as reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and cut the incidence of waterborne diseases.
Mammography has helped reduce breast cancer mortality in the United States by nearly one-third since 1990, according to the American College of Radiology.
Earlier this year, in response to a high-level UN meeting on NCDs in 2011, the World Health Assembly set a global target to reduce premature NCD mortality by 25% by the year 2025.
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Jacquie Cutts, the founder, president and CEO of Safe Mothers, Safe Babies, is working to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Uganda.
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Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region.
"Trying to manage the stress and having social support may reduce the risk of mortality, " says Sareen, who has studied suicide risk and suicidal thoughts among cancer patients, but wasn't involved in the current study.
According to its reasoning, expanding insurance coverage would reduce absenteeism, disability and mortality, thereby encouraging and enabling work.
Starting with children under one, by 2010, it aims to reduce by at least ten per cent the difference in infant mortality rates between manual groups and the rest of the population.
These efforts are making a difference: In less than a decade, we have sent more than 6 million anti-malaria bed nets to Africa, helped to reduce global polio cases by 99% and helped to decrease measles mortality by 74% worldwide.
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