Tag Archives: Years

Globally, more than 11 million years of healthy life lost due to childhood cancer in 2017

While the number of new cancer cases in children and adolescents (aged 0-19 years) is relatively low at around 416,500 globally in 2017, treatment-related ill-health and disability and fatal cancer are estimated to cause around 11.5 million years of healthy life lost globally every year, according to the first Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD)… Read More: Globally, more than 11 million years of healthy life lost… »

Mulvaney: Trump Brought Down Drug Prices For The First Time In 50 Years

“Drug prices in this country actually came down last year for the first time in 50 years. That’s because Donald Trump’s president.” Mick Mulvaney, April 7, 2019, on “Fox News Sunday” President Donald Trump announced last month that the GOP will become “the party of health care,” and news reports suggest he intends to make… Read More: Mulvaney: Trump Brought Down Drug Prices For The First Time… »

Reflections on a 45-year career and 13 years leading HealthNewsReview.org

Our home page 1st day 2006 In this, our final week of daily publishing as we wind down operations due to a loss of sufficient funding, I want to share some observations after a 45-year career in health care journalism, 13 of which were the pinnacle for me as Publisher of this website. Earlier this… Read More: Reflections on a 45-year career and 13 years leading HealthNewsReview.org »