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"For people 45 and older, the age-adjusted death rate in the U.S. from diabetes decreased as family income increased. The relationship between family income and death from diabetes was similar for men and women; for both sexes, mortality from diabetes decreased at each higher level of family income. The diabetes death rate among women in families with incomes below $10,000 was three times the death rate of those with incomes of $25,000 or more; among men, the death rate among the lowest income group was 2.6 times that of the highest income group." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"For nonsmoking women ages fifteen to thirty, who use a comparable form of contraception, the IUD, there is no increase in death rate. Because of the health risks of pregnancy, the death rate among women ages fifteen to thirty-four who are on the pill is actually lower than that for women who do not use any form of birth control. OCPs can be unsafe for older women who smoke. The risk of heart attack more than doubles for women over forty or women who smoke or have diabetes or high cholesterol." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"In 1976, Los Angeles County registered a sudden reduction of its death rate by eighteen percent when many medical doctors went on strike against the increase of health insurance premiums for malpractice. In a study by Dr. Milton Roemer from the University of California, Los Angeles, 17 of the largest hospitals in the county showed a total of 60 percent fewer operations during the period of the strike. When the doctors resumed work and medical activities went back to normal, death rates also returned to pre-strike levels. A similar event took place in Israel in 1973." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"It lists the total number of iatrogenic deaths in the United States as 783,936 compared to the 2001 heart disease annual death rate of 699,697, and annual cancer death rate of 553,25i.8 Rather sobering, don't you think? One would expect that, with its ranking in medical technology near the top of all nations, the U.S. would place among the best in the health of its citizens. Unfortunately, this is not the case. According to the jama article, the U.S." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In 1973, a strike in an Israeli hospital lasted a month, and the death rate dropped by 50%. Similar results happened again in Israel in 1983 and 2000. In 1976, doctors refused to treat all cases except for emergencies in Bogota, Colombia, for a period of 52 days. The death rate fell 35%. In 1976, a slowdown of Los Angeles doctors resulted in 18% fewer deaths. Patients trapped in the medical matrix must wake up. We should not have to fear entering hospitals. Healing sites should not be life threatening! They should be places of rest, relaxation, revitalization, detoxification, and recovery." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Among Japanese women, one to two eggs per week was associated with a 12% lower all-cause death rate, with a trend toward a lower mortality due to stroke, ischemic heart disease (IHD), and cancer, compared with women consuming 1 egg per day [222]. In contrast, among 117,933 subjects in the United States, no relationship was found between consumption of 1 egg or fewer per day and the risk of IHD or stroke [33]. The Framingham Heart Study reported that egg consumption was not related to CHD [223] and was not related to serum cholesterol levels [224]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"This problem appears to be escalating as people take more pills. The death rate from falls among Americans age sixty-five or older spiked by 5 5 percent between 1993 and 2003. In recent years, various drug companies have publicized this danger of falling, but they have not made it clear that medicines are often to blame. Instead, the companies have used the statistics on falls to create a new blockbuster pharmaceutical market for drugs they claim will reduce the chance of breaking a bone." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Yet the story is not so easily interpreted. "It is probable," explained McKeown, that mortality from this disease was falling in the first half of the nineteenth century. In the second half of that century, nearly half the decrease in death rates came from declining tuberculosis mortality. All this happened long before the advent of modern medical understanding or treatment. The bacillus responsible for tuberculosis was not identified until 1881." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "The McKinleys studied the impact of prophylaxis on eleven infectious diseases which had been deadly at the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States. For each one, the authors charted the slope of decline in mortality, marking in each case the first year of widespread medical intervention. The findings are dramatic: for each case the intervention comes long after the most significant declines in mortality. The McKinleys then calculate the fall in the standard death rate after intervention as a percent of the total fall for that disease. The findings are significant." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The death rate among depressed patients with few social contacts was especially high—over 90%! In a study of 194 heart attack patients, those who reported lower amounts of emotional support were nearly 3 times more likely to die within 6 months than those with higher levels of emotional support. The Monday Morning Blahs Have you ever wondered when most people die? Statistically, it turns out that people are more likely to die on Monday morning before going to work than at any other time of the week." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The McKinleys then calculate the fall in the standard death rate after intervention as a percent of the total fall for that disease. The findings are significant. For typhoid, intervention accounted for far less than one-third of 1 % of the reduction in mortality; for measles, 1.4%, for scarlet fever, 1.8%. Their conclusion: Given that it is precisely for these diseases that medicine claims the most success in lowering mortality, 3." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The overall death rate for the babies raised on human milk was 1.5 per 1,000 infants while the death rate in the babies fed cow milk was 84.7 per 1,000 infants during the first nine months of life. The death rate from gastrointestinal infections was forty times higher in the non-breast-fed infants, while the death rate from respiratory infection was 120 times higher. An earlier analysis involving infants in eight American cities showed similar results. Infants fed on cow milk had a twenty times greater chance of dying during the first six months of life." - Frank A. Oski, M.D., Don't Drink Your Milk (Get the book.)

"All that new technology has helped cut the death rate from heart attacks by nearly two thirds for men in their fifties and sixties—a spectacular medical achievement. But it has also created a paradox: The same new drugs and treatments that have decreased a man's chances of dying from his acute MI have also increased the number of latent errors that are possible and the potential for complications. A physician gives an injection of heparin without first performing a rectal exam, to make sure the patient isn't bleeding in his gut, and the blood thinner causes the patient to hemorrhage." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Similarly, a study done by the National Public Health Institute at the University of Helsinki, Finland, showed that the death rate among people taking the other popular fibrate, gemfibrozil (brand name Lopid), for 8.5 years was 21 percent higher than that for the people taking placebos. The current era of treatment to lower total and LDL cholesterol began in 1987, with the introduction of the first statin drug. Most of the cholesterol in our bodies does not come from our diet but is manufactured in the liver." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Those additional doctors and beds do nothing to further reduce the infant death rate. They do, however, increase the chances that a relatively healthy baby will be placed in an expensive intensive care bed and cared for by a high-priced specialist. Here, then, is an explanation for how a hospital's investments in technology, facilities, and physicians can lead to unnecessary care. A hospital constructs a cath lab, and all of a sudden cardiologists start doing more angioplasties and stents." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The drugs also cut the death rate, so that by 199s, transplants were killing less than 1 o percent of patients. Best of all, growth factors increased the profit on a transplant, bringing the cost down to under sixty thousand dollars. Hospitals continued charging insurers between eighty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars per patient. Under Peters, Duke University's breast cancer transplant program netted fourteen million dollars one year. Soon, community hospitals wanted their share of the profits. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Researchers analyzed a national survey of vitamin C intake and death rate in 11,348 people ages 25 to 74 during a 10-year span. They found that men and women with high intakes of vitamin C—about 300 milligrams a day—from both food and supplements had much lower death rates from heart disease than those with low intakes. Specifically, men had a 42 percent lower death rate from heart disease, and women had a 25 percent lower death rate." - Prevention Magazine, Prevention's New Foods for Healing: Capture the Powerful Cures of More Than 100 Common Foods (Get the book.)

"A city the size of Constantinople has a normal death rate estimated at thirty a day. Increasing that by two orders of magnitude put a crushing burden on the business of easing the departed on their way to heaven. Fifty years later, Bishop Gregory of Tours would write about the pestilence, Since soon no coffins or biers were left, six and even more persons were buried together in the same grave. One Sunday, three hundred corpses were counted in Saint Peter's basilica [in Clermont] alone.? This was nothing compared to the problem facing Justinian." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"A study in Australia showed that an emergency medical team within a hospital could respond to "physiological instabilities" that precede most such attacks, and decrease the actual incidence of cardiac arrest by about two-thirds, and therefore substantially reduce the death rate.'3 Prior to arrival at the hospital, resuscitation after cardiac arrest is possible, but only with what is termed "the chain of survival": quick access to emergency care, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillation, and advanced care." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Yet the inescapable fact is that the death rate is unchanged: In 1950, the death rate from all cancers was 194 out of every 100,000 people. A half-century later, in 2001, it was 196 out of every 100,000 people. When assessed by the only yardstick that counts—the overall death rate from all cancers— progress has been nonexistent. More than a half-century ago, cancer was the second-leading cause of death in the United States. It remains so today. In 2001, according to CDC data, the deaths of 553,800 persons were attributable to cancer. Heart disease, long the No. 1 killer, claimed 700,100 lives." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"Never" is not an option; the death rate is one per person. "When?" is the profound and bedeviling enigma. Ending one's own life raises great issues in moral relativism, as great as does ending the life of another. Prolonging life also raises issues in moral relativism. Should we go to lengths to prolong all life, or just life we deem sufficiently high in quality? Hence, "When?" is pregnant with, "How goes the journey?" These are questions for the ages. The authors of the Old Testament weighed in: foreknowledge of the time of one's death would be a heavy burden, not a blessing." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Surprisingly, patient outcomes in Texas were actually worse over the following two years: The death rate was significantly higher in Texas (15 percent). Also, the patients in Texas reported about 40 percent more angina (heart pain), and 62 percent more of the patients in Texas were unable to do tasks that required moderate exertion compared with the patients in New York. The authors concluded that there appeared to be no benefit to the greater number of post-heart attack cardiac procedures being done in Texas." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The death rate for African-Americans with diabetes is 27 percent higher than the death rate for Caucasians who have the disease. Unfortunately, two-thirds of the people diagnosed with diabetes do not associate the disease with an increased risk of cardiovascular problems, such as heart disease and stroke. To someone with diabetes, controlling blood sugar must be done in conjunction with controlling cholesterol and blood pressure. There are two major types of diabetes: type 1 (or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [IDDM]) and type 2 (non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [NIDDM])." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"AFCAPS/TexCAPS would cost, because the overall death rate was higher, not lower, in the people who took a statin drug. The bottom line is that these two studies show that men who do not have CHD but do have very high cholesterol levels might benefit from taking a statin drug, though not nearly as much as all the talk of "miracle drugs" leads us to believe. The case for prescribing statins for men with only moderately elevated cholesterol levels is far less compelling." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"For example, the measles death rate from 1915-1958 fell by 95 percent in both the US and the UK before the vaccine program was implemented. Pertussis death rates fell by 75 percent and diphtheria by 90 percent before immunization. Polio had fallen 47 percent in the US and 55 percent in the UK before 1953, the year the Salk vaccine was introduced. Even more interesting was the finding that 58 percent of all measles cases were contracted by people who had been vaccinated, while only 42 percent of unvaccinated children contracted the disease." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Cervical cancer kills four thousand women per year, only one tenth the death rate of breast cancer, for example. That means that about 0.002% of women infected with HPV die each year from HPV-induced cervical cancer—not a very impressive number. In 2006 support for the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine Garda-sil led Texas to mandate vaccination for all young girls in the state, an action that was followed by similar proposals in a number of other states. But is the HPV vaccine safe and effective? Since the vaccine is new, its long-term consequences are unknown." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Because of the health risks of pregnancy, the death rate among women ages fifteen to thirty-four who are on the pill is actually lower than that for women who do not use any form of birth control. OCPs can be unsafe for older women who smoke. The risk of heart attack more than doubles for women over forty or women who smoke or have diabetes or high cholesterol. They also should not be used by women with a history of blood clots, untreated high blood pressure, breast or uterine cancer, migraine headaches with focal neurological symptoms, known pregnancy, or liver or cardiac disease." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The pertussis (whooping cough) death rate decreased by more than 75% before the vaccine was introduced. In the U.S. in 1984, among all children between the ages of 7 months and 6 years who contracted pertussis, 46% had been vaccinated against the disease. In a study of 103 children who died of sids (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or crib death), conducted by Dr. William Torch of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, it was found that 70% had received the dpt (combined diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) vaccine within three weeks of their deaths." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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