"The devices enormously reduce the mortality and risk of sudden cardiac death" in at-risk patients, Reiner said.
"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.
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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Mammography has helped reduce breast cancer mortality in the United States by nearly one-third since 1990, according to the American College of Radiology.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The obvious targets were world agencies who bought immunizations in bulk to reduce child mortality in developing countries.
" 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.
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".
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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