Report: Number of U.S. deaths up in 2005
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The number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004 numbers were a fluke. Cancer deaths were also up.
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For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans younger than 85, health officials said.
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_U.S. deaths as of Jan. 31, 2007: 3,080.
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More than 157,000 Americans were killed  and about 1.6 million hospitalized as a result of car crashes,  falls, violent acts and accidents in 2001, federal officials  said on Thursday in a report that urged the nation to pay more  attention to basic safety.
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ATLANTA -- The death rate from falling has risen dramatically for elderly people since the 1990s, said federal health officials, speculating that it's because people are living longer with chronic conditions like cancer and heart disease.
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At least 21 people were killed at school during the 2004-05 academic year, a slight increase from the year before, the government reported Sunday.
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A new report by government researchers finds the number of Americans with high blood pressure has climbed to almost one in three over the past decade, as Americans have gotten older and fatter.
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A new report reveals an alarming rise in fatal or debilitating prescription drug-related side effects and raises serious questions about basic medical safety practices.
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The number of Americans with high blood pressure has increased to 65 million from 50 million a decade ago, driven by the aging of the population and possibly aggravated by the increase in obesity, a new study says.
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A widely reported study  released earlier this year overstated the increase in obesity-related U.S. deaths by about 35,000, a the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in admitting the miscalculation.
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The suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004.
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Unintentional deaths due to  drug poisoning -- primarily with prescription drugs --  increased by 68 percent between 1999 and 2004, and is second  only to motor vehicle crashes as a cause of death from  unintentional injury in the US, investigators at the Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention report.
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Deaths from smoking continue to rise around the world, according to a new study in the November issue of Tobacco Control. Smoking was responsible for almost 5 million deaths worldwide in 2000, or about 12
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Aug. 23, 2004 -- The number of adults in the US with high blood pressure increased by nearly a third during the last 10 years, according to the latest government figures.
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NEW YORK  - Influenza-related  hospitalizations have increased dramatically in the US in the  last two decades, in part because of the aging population,  according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical  Association.
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More people died in urban areas when ground-level ozone was higher during the previous week, researchers at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Johns Hopkins report in the November 17 Journal of the American Medical Association.
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WASHINGTON  - A US government report released in March on the number of deaths related to obesity in the United States exaggerated the number due to a statistical error, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) said in a