Health & Medicine
CDC: Premature Death is Largely Preventable
If every US state were close to the benchmark for lowest death rate, between 20 and 40 percent of premature deaths could be prevented annually, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which suggests that individual state health policies play a role in preventable early deaths.
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