Who's Still Smoking?

Who's Still Smoking:  Report Highlights Population Still At Risk.  American Cancer Society/Science Daily.  January 31, 2017. 

Latinos With Alzheimer's Expected To Rise By More Than Eight Times by 2060

'Tsunami' Of Alzheimer's Cases Among Latinos Raises Concerns Over Costs, Caregiving by Ana B. Ibarra and Heidi de Marco.  Kaiser Health News.  February 17, 2017. 

Reaching Millennnials: The Lost Generation For Health Care

Doctors, Dentists Seek New Ways To Reach Millennial Patients by Terri Akman.  The Inquirer.  September 16, 20156

Changes In Fertility Therapies Perhaps The Cause Of Decline In Higher-Order Births

Triplet And Higher-Order Births, In U.S. Down 41% by Nicholas Bakalar. The New York Times.  May 30, 2016

We're Living 30 Years Longer Than A Century Ago: What Are The Implications

How Increasing Longevity Will Shape Our World by Richard Eisenberg.  Next Avenue.  May 5, 2016

White Women and Native Americans Drive 24% Increase in Suicide Between 1999 and 2014

U.S. Suicides Have Soared Since 1999, CDC Report Says by Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times.  April 21, 2016

Analysis Of 60 Million Death Certificates Finds Disturbing Trends Among Less Educated Whites; Drugs Are A Problem

Drug Overdoses Propel Rise In Mortality Rates Of Young Whites by Gina Kolata and Sarah Cohen.  The New York Times.  January 16, 2016. 

Longer Life Span Plus Poorer Health Will Put Strains On Medicare As Baby Boomers Retire

Baby Boomers Set Another Trend:  More Golden Years In Poorer Health by Lisa Gillespie.  Kaiser Health News.  December 17, 2015. 

Further Analysis Of White Americans Death Rates Between 1999 to 2013 Reveals Significant Changes Among Women

Is The Death Rate Really Increasing For Middle-Aged White Americans? By Andrew Gelman.  Slate.  November 11, 2015. 

Mortality Rate For Whites Between 45 And 54 With Less than College Education Has Startling rise

A Group Of Middle-Aged Whites In the U.S. Is dying At A Startling Rate by Lenny Bernstein And Joel Achenbach.  The Washington Post.  November 2, 2015. 

State Of Girls Worldwide: Not Great; Someplaces Atricious; But Generally Better Than It Used To Be

Where the Girls Are (And Aren't):  #15Girls by John Poole.  NPR.  October 20, 2015. 

Global Population Could Reach 11 Billion by 2100; African Could Be At 5.6 Billion By Then

Global Population Soars Toward 11 Billion by 2100.  Can Earth Support Growth?  by Sara Aridi.  Christian Science Monitor.  August 12, 2015. 

Prevalence Of Metabolic Syndrome Has Seemed To Stablize; Demographics May Foreshadow Future Rise However

Prevalence Of Metabolic Syndrome In The U.S. Has Stabilized.  Can It Last?  by Karen Kaplan.  The Lost Angeles Times.  May 19, 2015. 

Suicide Rate For Black Boys Doubled Over Last Two Decades; Rate For White Children Dropped

Suicide Rates Among Young Black Boys On The Rise by Carina Storrs.  CNN.  May 19, 2015. 

A Quarter Of All Elderly Americans Could Become "Elder Orphans"

A Quarter Of All Elderly Americans Could Be Orphans In The Times To Come by Anjali Singh Deswai.  May 19, 2015. 

Highly Educated Women Are Less Likely To Remain Childless Into Their 40's

Childlessness Falls, Family Size Grows Among Highly Educated Women by Gretchen Livingston.  Pew Social Trends.  May 7, 2015. 

Apple, IBM And Japan Post Group Join In Technology Service Aimed At Fast-Growing Older Demographic; May Be Scalable Around The Globe

Apple, IBM And Japan Post See Profit In The Old-Age Market by Steve Lohr.  The New York Times.  April 30, 2015. 

Life Expectancy Variance By Zip Codes: Atlanta Ranges From 84 In North Atlanta To 71 In Vine City

Same City, But Very Different Life Spans by Sabrina Tavernise And Alert Sun.  The New York Times. 

8 Facts That Explain What's Wrong With American Health Care

8 Facts That Explain What's Wrong With American Health Care by Sarah Kliff.  Vox.  September 4, 2014.

Still With A Much Higher Teen Birth Rate Than Other Nations, U.S. Rate Falls Significantly

Teen Birth Rate Has Dropped Dramatically by Dennis Thompson.  WebMD News from HealthDay.  August 20, 2014.