8,331 source-backed health facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 29 of 84.
“£6.1m premature baby unit”
“Regional Director of four women's clinics in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennyslvania, and Omaha, Nebraska, DIANE STRAUSS.”
“The boy died 17 days after his hospital admission, with no relevant medical history such as allergies, recent illness contacts, tick bites or overseas travel. Testing confirmed their fears, with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency identify…”
“A recent study from Yale University found that deaths associated with high temperatures nearly doubled in the US over the past two decades, from an annual average of 2,670 between 2000 and 2009, to more than 4,000 between 2010 and 2020.”
“less than £500,000”
“About one thousend of them...all children...came to Israel for medical treatment under a program sponsored by a religious organization called khah-BAHD”
“His death is only one of 28 rabies fatalities recorded in Canada in the last century.”
“New York emergency departments say they’re preparing to handle an increase in patients with acute heat illnesses in the coming days.”
“by the autumn of 2011”
“Chwat's 'New York Speech Improvement Services' attracts 200 to 250 clients a week.”
“According to findings published this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the fatal encounter occurred during a family holiday at a cottage in Ontario, Canada, in 2024.”
“Erik Blutinger, an emergency medicine physician at Mount Sinai Queens, says the hospital is stocking up on towels, fans, and other supplies to make sure patients with heat sickness can be adequately treated.”
“at 1930 BST”
“Originally aired 6/27/94.”
“The boy's first symptoms emerged nearly three weeks after the initial exposure, developing facial numbness and swelling, prompting his family to seek emergency care.”
““Anybody who has an altered mental status who is hot, that is an indicator that they may be critically ill,” says Reed Caldwell, chief of service at Tisch Hospital’s emergency department, part of NYU Langone Health.”
“56-year-old motorbike rider”
“After a night of drinking in December of 1994, Terry was found dead in a parking lot near her home in Madison, Wisconsin.”
“back-to-back hospital visits only brought further incorrect diagnoses. The family urgently returned one day after weakness spread across the right side of his face, where the child then deteriorated dramatically while awaiting admission - …”
“after he was released from hospital seven days ago.”
“About a fourth of the 12 million cases that occur each year affect adolescents.”
“The boy died 17 days after his hospital admission”
“He is described as being 5ft 6in (1.67m), of stocky build and clean-shaven.”
“an Institute of Medicine study concludes that not enough is being done by either the private or the public sector to prevent these infections.”
“His death is only one of 28 rabies fatalities recorded in Canada in the last century”
“woman, 43, suffered a stab wound to her stomach”
“Twenty-six cases of the disease have been diagnosed there since July, and at least 17 people have died.”
“Testing confirmed their fears, with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency identifying a bat rabies virus variant”
“has since been allowed to leave hospital following treatment”
“As a result of the outbreak in Gabon, two cases of Ebola have been diagnosed in Johannesberg, South Africa.”
“while awaiting admission - with his temperature spiking to 39C”
“Two of those injured had cuts to their arms and legs. They are being treated in hospital.”
“The World Health Organization says 19 people have become ill, including 10 who have died, since early February in a remote village in northern Gabon.”
“Once symptoms manifest, rabies infection proves 'almost universally fatal', the journal report states”
“A 56-year-old woman was taken to hospital with a fractured spine.”
“there is strong evidence that taking estrogen hormone pills offers protection against heart attacks and strokes in postmenopausal women”
“Volunteer cyclists rode 19,000 miles (30,577km) in a month-long cycle ride around Guernsey to raise money for an island hospice.”
“The study found that there was a 46 percent reduction in the rate of death from all causes in these women”
“Thirty-nine volunteers cycled for one hour each day every day in May to raise funds for Les Bourgs Hospice.”
“This one raised more than $17,000. That helped retire more than $2.2 million in debt.”
“The Thirty-thirty Cycle Challenge riders raised £62,000 after cycling the equivalent of 861 Rocque to Rocque rides.”
“Nationwide, an estimated 100 million adults have some form of healthcare debt.”
“The annual running cost of the hospice is £700,000.”
“More than half of U.S. adults have had such debt at some point in their lives.”
“has died aged 84 of natural causes.”
“The church's first campaign, in 2022, set a goal of raising $5,000 to retire about $500,000 in unpaid medical bills...”
“Two people have been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crash involving a police car.”
“The campaign hit its goal in just six weeks...”
“The driver and the passenger in the Audi were taken to hospital.”
“Terri Mabe, 70, has also seen medical debt up close.”
“The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust said the crew was on a compulsory 30-minute unpaid rest break at the time.”
“Then you get sick. Next thing you know, you owe $5,000, $10,000 that you cannot pay.”
“there were 79 recorded suicides between 2005 and 2007 in the county - excluding Telford and Wrekin.”
“estimated as high as 8 times the national average”
“This was down from a peak of 96 recorded between 2001 and 2003.”
“half of her students suffer from asthma”
“A post-mortem examination was inconclusive and further tests will be required to establish a cause of death, police said.”
“the South Bronx has one of the country's highest asthma rates: estimated as high as 8 times the national average.”
“Officers said he was of athletic build, 6ft 4in tall and wore a hooded sweatshirt and dark-blue tracksuit bottoms.”
“One child died”
“The 41-year-old victim was taken to hospital with a bullet wound but his injuries were not said to be life-threatening, police said.”
“50 more were made sick”
“broken both legs”
“University of Pennslyvania survey of 852 intensive care nurses”
“The 67-year-old man”
“16% of whom say they participated in euthanasia or assisted suicide”
“A five-year-old boy”
“died late yesterday at age 53.”
“An 18-year-old suffered a broken jaw”
“more than 10% of the cases of AIDS in this country occurs in people over 50 years of age.”
“The 18-year-old man, who was punched in the face, underwent surgery at Southampton General Hospital”
“500,000 American deaths a year are attributed to cigarette, alcohol and drug use.”
“Michaels was admitted to hospital on 23 April”
“The force of it threw her forty feet, severly damaged part of her nervous system, and sent her into a "solitary limbo."”
“He was discharged from hospital on 5 May”
“The study, published today in the journal Nature, shows that normal levels of indoor light, not just bright light, can reset the human biological clock.”
“He has increased his rehabilitation sessions to twice a day in preparation for his comeback”
“$1.4-billion AIDS research program”
“there were 79 recorded suicides between 2005 and 2007 in the county”
“She then lived nine more years.”
“down from a peak of 96 recorded between 2001 and 2003”
“In 1980 they used the proceeds from the book to open the Karen Ann Quinlan Center of Hope Hospice in Newton, New Jersey.”
“A 37-year-old man working on a small stock car in Worcestershire was taken to hospital with burns after fuel in the machine caught fire.”
“to approximately 1000 HIV-infected people”
“The accident happened in Buckle Street in Honeybourne, on Tuesday evening.”
“only five percent of consumer injuries resulting from damaged products (not including automobiles) trigger lawsuits.”
“A man who suffered stab wounds has been taken to hospital in Blackpool, where he is in a stable condition.”
“the proposal would save an additional 20 thousand lives a year by reducing the number of people who develop respiratory diseases like asthma”
“the 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament”
“her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the new memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”
“Despite the 3.5 billion dollars that this country spends on substance abuse prevention programs in the nation's schools”
“drug use is going up sharply among teenagers...especially marijuana and cigarette use among young teens aged 13 and 14”
“the youngest patients are 11, and the oldest patients are 80.”
“Josh Cutler is a sixteen year old living in Manhattan who has Tourette Syndrome...”
“estimated as high as 8 times the national average.”
“half of her students suffer from asthma.”
“One year ago, he was given a baboon marrow transplant in an attempt to restore his immune system.”
“Glaxo-Wellcome is keeping the AIDS drug 15-92 off the market because it wants to maximize its profits for the old AIDS drug AZT.”
“Psychologist MARY PIPHER has worked mostly with teenage girls for over ten years.”
“Eva Mortimer-Maibeth is a 10-year who went to work with her mother Claire Mortimor who is a nurse practitioner at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco.Eva was one of a hundred children who toured the hospital today.”
