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Cancer statistics in China and United States, 2022: profiles, trends, and determinants

Chinese Medical Journal, 2022
Background: The cancer burden in the United States of America (USA) has decreased gradually. However, China is experiencing a transition in its cancer profiles, with greater incidence of cancers that were previously more common in the USA.
C. Xia, Xuesi Dong, He Li, M. Cao, Dianqin Sun, Siyi He, F. Yang, Xinxin Yan, Shaoli Zhang, Ningkang Li, Wanqing Chen   +10 more
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First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Summary An outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that began in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly, with cases now confirmed in multiple countries.
Michelle L Holshue, Chas DeBolt, S. Lindquist, Kathy Lofy, Jon-David Wiesman, H. Bruce, C. Spitters, Keith Ericson, Sara Wilkerson, Ahmet Tural, G. Diaz, A. Cohn, LeAnne Fox, Anita Patel, S. Gerber, L. Kim, S. Tong, Xiaoyan Lu, S. Lindstrom, M. Pallansch, W. Weldon, H. Biggs, T. Uyeki, Satish K. Pillai   +23 more
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Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2020.

NCHS data brief, 2021
Deaths from drug overdose continue to contribute to overall mortality and the lowering of life expectancy in the United States (1-4). This report uses the most recent data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to update statistics on deaths ...
H. Hedegaard, A. Miniño, M. Spencer, M. Warner   +3 more
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Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011-2012.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2014
IMPORTANCE More than one-third of adults and 17% of youth in the United States are obese, although the prevalence remained stable between 2003-2004 and 2009-2010.
Cynthia L Ogden, M. Carroll, Brian K. Kit, K. Flegal   +3 more
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Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2017–2018

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, approximately two thirds (47,600) involved an opioid (1). In recent years, increases in opioid-involved overdose deaths have been driven primarily by deaths involving synthetic opioids ...
N. Wilson, M. Kariisa, P. Seth, Herschel Smith, N. Davis   +4 more
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Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2001-2021.

NCHS data brief, 2022
Drug overdose deaths have been rising over the past 2 decades in the United States (1-4). This report uses the most recent data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to update statistics on deaths from drug overdose in the United States ...
M. Spencer, A. Miniño, M. Warner
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Children — United States, February 12–April 2, 2020

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
As of April 2, 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in >890,000 cases and >45,000 deaths worldwide, including 239,279 cases and 5,443 deaths in the United States (1,2). In the United States, 22% of the population is made up
S. Bialek, R. Gierke, Michelle M. Hughes, L. McNamara, T. Pilishvili, Tami H. Skoff   +5 more
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Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
Each year, 31 pathogens caused 9.4 million episodes of foodborne illness, resulting in 55,961 hospitalizations and 1,351 deaths.
E. Scallan, R. Hoekstra, F. Angulo, R. Tauxe, Marc-Alain Widdowson, S. Roy, Jeffery L. Jones, P. Griffin   +7 more
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The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated.
M. Burke, Anne Driscoll, S. Heft-Neal, Jiani Xue, J. Burney, M. Wara   +5 more
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Food-related illness and death in the United States.

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999
To better quantify the impact of foodborne diseases on health in the United States, we compiled and analyzed information from multiple surveillance systems and other sources.
P. Mead, L. Slutsker, V. Dietz, L. McCaig, J. Bresee, C. Shapiro, P. Griffin, R. Tauxe   +7 more
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