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June 22, 2022
Can India win the war against cancer?
Times of India

According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington School of Medicine analysis, published in JAMA journal, December 30, 2021, the growth rates are among the global highest.

June 17, 2022
4 crore Indians reported long COVID symptoms
Times of India

It was published by a group of researchers from various universities across the globe, and from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), a collaboration of over 3,600 researchers from 145 countries.

June 17, 2022
How Japan achieved one of the world’s lowest COVID death rates
Bloomberg

Mask use in Japan has typically held above 90%, a threshold other G-7 countries have only occasionally neared, according to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation data.

June 16, 2022
Life expectancy for Native Americans has stagnated — even long before COVID
STAT

“To have that long of a period of time and no increase in life expectancy was probably the most shocking finding,” said Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, an assistant professor of health metric sciences at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

June 12, 2022
Por que futuro da humanidade pode depender da África
BBC

A projeção mais recente, realizada em 2020 pelo Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) da Universidade de Washington, nos Estados Unidos, em estudo publicado na revista científica The Lancet, indica que, até o final deste século, 183 dos 195 países do mundo terão uma taxa de fecundidade abaixo dos níveis necessários para repor sua população.

June 11, 2022
From Australia to the UK, here's how other countries have responded to mass shootings
USA Today

The US's rate of firearms homicides is 4.14 per 100,000 people, the highest among wealthy nations with a population of 10 million or more, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a health research organization based at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

June 8, 2022
Health Check: What brain scans tell us
BBC

Shocking results showing a global shortage of 43 million medical staff are discussed with study lead author Professor Rafael Lozano. Interview with Dr. Lozano starts at 9:29 of the podcast.

June 8, 2022
Por qué el futuro de la humanidad podría depender de África
BBC News Mundo

La proyección más reciente, realizada en 2020 por el Instituto de Métricas y Evaluaciones de Salud (IHME) de la Universidad de Washington y publicada en la revista científica The Lancet, indica que para finales de este siglo 183 de los 195 países del mundo tendrán una tasa de fertilidad por debajo de los niveles requeridos para reemplazar a su población.

June 8, 2022
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The damage to the human body caused by firearms
CNN

According to an analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the US ranks first in firearm homicides per capita among high-income countries of more than 10 million

June 3, 2022
Guj paradox: high GDP, low nutrition
Times of India

The Lancet report 'The Burden of Child and Maternal Malnutrition and Trends in its Indicators in the States of India: The Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2017' had also put Gujarat at the top in child wasting and sixth in child stunting among Indian states.

May 31, 2022
Explainer: Are guns illegal in Canada? Key questions answered
Reuters

Canada's rate of firearm homicides is 0.5 per 100,000 people, versus the United States' rate of 4.12, the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) said in a 2021 analysis.

May 28, 2022
Another School Massacre, Putin’s Troops Advance: Weekend Reads
Bloomberg

Gun violence deaths per 100,000 people in developed economies chart sources: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, United Nations.

May 28, 2022
The U.S. is uniquely terrible at protecting children from gun violence
NPR

Compared to countries of all sizes and incomes, the firearm-related death rate in the U.S. ranks 32nd in the world, according to a study by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

May 27, 2022
Toronto police kill man carrying gun near schools
NBC News

Canada’s rate of firearm homicides is 0.5 per 100,000 people, far lower than the U.S. rate of 4.12, according to a 2021 analysis by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

May 26, 2022
Factbox: How Canada, Australia, UK changed laws after mass shootings
Reuters

Canada's rate of firearm homicides is 0.5 per 100,000 people, versus the United States' rate of 4.12, the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) said in a 2021 analysis.

May 26, 2022
When will we know if COVID is seasonal?
ABC News

"Right now, we have a highly infectious virus, and we have waning immunity," said Dr. Ali Mokdad, of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle. "So people are susceptible to the virus even in summer."

May 26, 2022
How America fails children
Vox

The firearm homicide rate for US children ages 0-14 is astronomical compared to other wealthy nations, according to data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, with hundreds of budding American lives lost every year. 

May 25, 2022
Qué es lo que deberíamos hacer (y no hacemos) para evitar morir antes de tiempo
El País

Para poder saber cuáles son las causas que nos hacen perder más años de vida saludable, existe un proyecto llamado Carga Global de Enfermedad (o Global Burden of Disease en inglés). Este proyecto está coordinado por el Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation y en él colaboran más de 3,000 investigadores en 146 países. 

May 18, 2022
Lancet study: Pollution killed 2.3 million Indians in 2019
BBC

In an update of a 2015 estimate on premature deaths caused by pollution, the Lancet study said that data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD) showed that pollution "remains responsible for approximately nine million deaths per year."

May 18, 2022
How big is the latest US coronavirus wave? No one really knows.
Washington Post

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that only about 13 percent of cases are being detected. But the organization’s director, Christopher Murray, says the United States is still in good shape and not on track to experience a surge of omicron subvariants like that seen in Britain.

May 17, 2022
Pollution killing 9 million people a year, Africa hardest hit - study
Reuters

For their most recent study, published in the online journal Lancet Planetary Health, the authors analyzed 2019 data from the Global Burden of Disease, an ongoing study by the University of Washington that assesses overall pollution exposure and calculates mortality risk.

May 17, 2022
Pollution kills 9 million people a year as fixes are neglected
Bloomberg

The analysis is based on global health data collected by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

May 17, 2022
Estudio: Contaminación mata a 9 millones de personas al año
AP

La investigación realizada antes de la pandemia y publicada el martes se basa en cálculos extraídos de la base de datos Global Burden of Disease y del Instituto de Sanimetría y Evaluación de Seattle.

May 17, 2022
Pollution responsible for one in six deaths across planet, scientists warn
The Guardian

The new review, published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health, analysed data from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease project, the most recent available, and found air pollution caused almost 75% of the 9 million pollution deaths.

May 12, 2022
Americans must not ‘grow numb,’ Biden says, as U.S. marks 1 million Covid deaths
NBC News

In an interview earlier this month, Dr. Christopher Murray, who heads the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine, told NBC News that “the fact that so many have died is still appalling.”

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