Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Life Expectancy Down For Some American Women
Saw this article in the Washington Post. It troubles me: For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women.In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation's women, life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according to a study published today.The downward trend is
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