With Mother Nature, if you don’t deal with reality, it will deal with you. To work effectively you need data: useful, verifiable numbers. How is America doing? Let’s take a look at the pandemic. In the last ten days, the first vaccine out of the box, the touted Oxford Jenner Astra Zeneca adenovirus vaccine, has […]
Halving Heart Attack Deaths (2/10/12)
Cutting Out Deaths from Heart Attacks In the last eight years , from 2002 to 2010, Britain has more than halved its heart attack death rate. According to recent data published in the British Medical Journal, over half the decrease occurred in the number of attacks. The rest of the improvement was due to increased […]
Fat Planet – People are getting fatter, but not everywhere (2/22/11)
Bigger It’s not just pets that are getting fatter. Humans are, too. And though the US ranks 49th in the world in lifespan, our nation is number one in body mass index, a major index of obesity. Sixty eight percent of Americans are now classified as obese or overweight. However, beyond the headlines of Finucane […]