Cancer deaths dropped dramatically in the US in 2019
Good news! The American Cancer Society published its latest data last week, which revealed a 2.2 percent drop in the number of deaths caused by cancer in 2019. That’s the biggest decrease in cancer deaths ever recorded. The drop in mortality was mostly attributed to a decrease in lung cancer Read More...
America has a shortage of doctors. Foreign doctors should fill the void
Kristina Sokolovska Konieczny studied medicine for six years so she could become a primary care doctor, then spent three years practicing family medicine. She worked in various places — at a public hospital, in the homes of people in underserved areas, in private practice, and at a top youth Read More...
For the first time since 1990, drug overdose deaths have dropped in America
While the fight to end deaths from drug overdoses is far from over, at the very least there’s some good news to the drug epidemic. According to preliminary government data made public this week, the total number of deaths from drug overdoses declined by around 5 percent last year after three Read More...