Abdul, Keep up the good work. Aren't you associated with Channel 6 News??

Adult Death Rates Lowest In Iceland, Cyprus
US Fares Worse Than Western Europe, Peru, Chile, Libya
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer
WRTV Channel 6
http://www.theindychannel.com/health/23312435/d…

POSTED: 7:01 pm EDT April 29, 2010
UPDATED: 5:50 am EDT April 30, 2010

LONDON — Men in Iceland and women in Cyprus have the lowest risk of dying worldwide, a new study says.

In a survey from 1970 to 2010, researchers found a widening gap between countries with the highest and lowest premature death rates in adults aged 15 to 60. The study was published Friday in the medical journal, Lancet.

The findings are in contrast to the trends in child and maternal mortality, where rates are mostly dropping worldwide. Health officials have long thought if child deaths were decreasing and health systems were improving, adult deaths would similarly decline. But that's not what researchers found.

“The new analysis challenges the common theories,” wrote Ai Koyanagi and Kenji Shibuya of the department of global health policy at the University of Tokyo, in an accompanying commentary. They were not linked to the study. Koyanagi and Shibuya said it wasn't clear why there were such major differences among countries in adult deaths.

Researchers in Australia and the U.S. calculated death rates in 187 countries using records from government registries, censuses, household surveys and other sources. It was paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Only a few countries have cut death rates by more than 2 percent per year in the last 40 years: Australia, Italy, South Korea, Chile, Tunisia and Algeria. The U.S. lagged significantly behind, dropping to 49th in the rankings for women and 45th for men. That puts it behind all of Western Europe as well as countries including Peru, Chile and Libya.

“The U.S. is definitely on the wrong trajectory,” said Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics at the University of Washington, one of the study's authors. “(The US) spends the most on health out of all countries, but (it) is apparently spending on the wrong things.”

Murray said they weren't sure why some countries — like Australia and South Korea — were particularly successful in reducing death rates, but guessed better policies on things like tobacco control and road accidents might be responsible.

Death rates were highest for men in Swaziland and for women in Zambia. Researchers also found death rates jumped in eastern Europe, perhaps because health systems fell apart after the collapse of the Soviet Union and widespread smoking. In sub-Saharan Africa, deaths have fallen, possibly due to the rollout of lifesaving AIDS drugs.

Murray said adult deaths have largely been neglected by the U.N., except for AIDS and tuberculosis programs. “We need to recognize just how bad things are getting in some parts of the world,” he said.

It may seem like the same at primary, but locally it is anything but. The abandonment of many loyal supporters over the way Tom John has used the power of the position (not his power he is useless) has crumbled th organization. They is so much hatred, team camps and controversey that we do not have a unified party when it will be needed most. There has to be a change, then start working together again to be successful. I won't vote for ballard again, but that is not the point. The organization needs to be fixed and healing needs to begin. Otherwise, we are in trouble. so to answer your question, no things won't be the same.

Will the profoundly ignorant and needy voters who voted for Barry in 2008 be as motivated to vote this time? Probably not. Frankly, they should be embarrassed. But those who oppose his radical attempt to expand government or feel they were duped into believing his rhetoric are motivated. They will vote.

Liberalism has reared its hideous head these last few years. It's face is Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama. The majority of thinking Americans have now seen the agenda of these leftist, America-hating radicals. People are motivated. Many are fed up!

By the way, the nationwide amnesty rallies tomorrow will intensify that anger. And while most Americans understand why our neighbors to the south want to come here, to make demands of us after disregarding our borders simply pisses people off.

The tea party this year was little more than a Republican campaign rally. Frankly, it turned my stomach a bit.

Now, Jack, you have to go easy on TA-recall that she complained bitterly about having to pay for her own HDL test and much preferred that we pay for it since it was special to her. She also complained, in similar fashion about her bra thinking it unreasonable that she had to pay more for the three tit version she needs whereas every other doll gets the standard two. And, she has been remarkable quiet about Justice Ginsburg's loaded racial comments concerning the need to reduce the Black population in the USA (and world). But, she has been pleasing to Haiti, routinely sending the odd $5 or $10 bill each time her tutor demonstrates her factual inadequacy.
I hear she is nominated for “donor of the year” because of all those errors and I think you should vote for her. I, too, will vote for T & A.

Will things ever change. Never now. With Abduls “good friends” GOP Golden Children Carl Brizzi, Lincoln Plowman and now Tom Johns all implicated in very poor judgement (dare I say illegal) it is difficult to say. People like their parties and damn the “left wing media”. The neo-cons will have some soul searching to do. People like the taste of the sugar in the cool aid they are drinking. So no. Same old, same old. Just a different personality.

“The Tea Party stands for Freedom and Liberty from both Big Government and Big Party.”

–AMEN!

Isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?

VOTE LIBERTARIAN IN EVERY RACE YOU CAN!

Melysssa, how do you know that TA is not a little old liberal lady? An d did you mean “bond” rather than “ban”? I have no doubt that she would ban Libertarians but perhaps because her banns were never published (for good reason). As for her ability to bond she is no more capable of professing being wrong than is Wilson10001. Even a parrot has more sense than to repeat stupidity (10,000 jobs) as wisdom. Libertarians of ten have the opportunity to publically say that they were wrong when they have erred.
She does not appear to have Federalist leanings.

Indiana
SurveyUSA, April 22-26; Rasmussen Reports, April 13-14

2008 election: Obama 49.8 percent, McCain 48.8 percent

SurveyUSA says 57 percent disapprove of the job Obama is doing while 34 percent approve, with 9 percent undecided. Sixty-six percent believe the country is on the wrong track.

Rasmussen says 60 percent disapprove of Obama's performance (with 47 percent “strongly” disapproving) while 39 percent approve. Fifty-eight percent believe the health care reform plan he signed into law will be bad for the country while
28 percent say it will be good and 12 percent are undecided. Sixty-five percent support an effort to repeal the law (with 56 percent “strongly” favoring such a move) while 29 percent oppose it, with 6 percent undecided.

They stayed the same. Public policy dictates that it takes a disaster for things to change (9-11, Pearl Harbor, Three Mile Island). It hasn't happened yet. That is how public policy is made. Tragedy

??There are spots in the sun.

It helps, too, that Coats has a spine…the sort of thing very much lacking in most political sorts including the D candidate for the same office who abandoned Hoosier values when the henchmen came for his vote on “health care”.

I thought that looked familiar….