• 1. Childbearing is highly unsafe in sub-Saharan Africa the huge mortality and morbidity in this part of the Region is the direct result of the serious defects in the social, cultural and economic backgrounds as well as in the inadequacies in existing health services. (who.int)
  • This study assessed the morbidity and mortality of low-birth-weight (LBW) infants during the first 3 months. (who.int)
  • Data were collected on weight, morbidity and mortality using a structured questionnaire. (who.int)
  • LBW within a country largely influences perinatal, neonatal and infant morbidity and Low birth weight (LBW), birth weight mortality rates [ 2 ]. (who.int)
  • In addition, the study of LBW in Egypt, aims at assessing retina is easily damaged by high levels of morbidity and mortality of LBW infants oxygen and there is a risk of intracranial during the first 3 months of life. (who.int)
  • Since data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases (morbidity data) are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. (who.int)
  • Patients with undifferentiated arthritis (UA) that is defined according to contemporary criteria don't appear to have the same excess mortality that is associated with rheumatoid arthritis, despite links between the two conditions. (medscape.com)
  • As the first large study on excess mortality in patients meeting contemporary criteria for UA, the authors said it suggests that the change in criteria for UA has served to increase the differences in mortality between it and RA. (medscape.com)
  • Among patients with anti-citrullinated protein antibody-positive disease, even early treatment with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and treat-to-target strategies didn't reduce the excess mortality. (medscape.com)
  • The study did find some suggestion of excess mortality among patients with contemporary UA and who were anti-citrullinated protein antibody positive, but the number of patients was small. (medscape.com)
  • The data also suggested that disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs didn't alter excess mortality among patients with contemporary UA. (medscape.com)
  • Cite this: Contemporary Undifferentiated Arthritis Has No Excess Mortality - Medscape - Mar 09, 2022. (medscape.com)
  • Cho 10 finds that infection cases would have been reduced by almost 75% and excess mortality would have been reduced by 25 percentage points had Sweden imposed a lockdown. (nature.com)
  • 1. The maternal mortality ratio in the African Region, at an average of 940 per 100,000 live births, is the highest in the world. (who.int)
  • By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality rate to less than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births. (bvsalud.org)
  • With 61.1 Units (Deaths) Per Thousand Live Births in 2019, the country was ranked number 6 comparing other countries in Female Infant Mortality Rate. (nationmaster.com)
  • During the past 70 years, the global infant mortality rate fell from approximately 140 to 40 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. (ipsnews.net)
  • Maternal mortality ratio refers to the number of women who die from pregnancy-related causes during pregnancy or within 42 days of the end of the pregnancy per 100,000 live births. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The infant mortality rate is strictly speaking not a rate (i.e. the number of deaths divided by the number of population at risk during a certain period of time) but a probability of death derived from a life table and expressed as rate per 1000 live births. (who.int)
  • A new study shows how to reduce mortality in just a few steps. (selfgrowth.com)
  • BUT, there is little actual evidence that informs us how many steps are needed each day to improve health and reduce mortality. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Katy Backes Kozhimannil, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, has published many research papers detailing the benefits of working with a doula but said there was no evidence showing they reduce mortality rates. (cbsnews.com)
  • Earlier, at the 47th session of the Regional Committee, Member States had adopted the Regional Strategy on Reproductive Health for the accelerated reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality in the Region. (who.int)
  • rates of post-neonatal component of infant mortality and the pro- physical, neurological and mental handicap portion of VLBW infants is a principal pre- are known to be significantly higher in dictor of neonatal mortality. (who.int)
  • UA has long been considered an earlier phase of RA, so similar management strategies are often used based on the assumption that outcomes and elevated mortality risk were similar between the two, but new findings reported in a research letter published in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases challenge that assumption. (medscape.com)
  • at all sites, the crude mortality rates (19.1-35.4 veillance system and to better monitor the spread of the epi- deaths/1,000 person-years) were higher than the expected baseline mortality rate for Haiti (9 deaths/1,000 person- demic and guide prevention and control activities. (cdc.gov)
  • Still, it is helpful to cite actual facts which are that each 1,000 steps was associated with a 14% reduction in mortality risk, but only up to 7500 steps where those gains began to level off. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Since humanity can expect pandemics to occur more frequently in the future than they have done in the past 8 , and because we are better positioned to leverage more and better quality data, we contribute to this debate by estimating the causal impact of not implementing a lockdown in Sweden on excess death outcomes using data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) and synthetic control methods (SCM). (nature.com)
  • The Human Mortality Database is the world´s leading data resource on mortality in developed countries. (mpg.de)
  • They also found that the changes in lifetime income associated with early retirement were negligible, particularly when generous government old-age benefits were counted, and that they could not explain the increased mortality among certain groups of the population. (nber.org)
  • But researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, working with colleagues at the University of Colorado Denver, decided to examine whether characteristics of different subgroups of nondrinkers could explain the increased mortality risk. (scienceblog.com)
  • Such a change may result from the changing proportion of individuals in each education category over time, a trend toward increasing mortality differentials by socioeconomic status, or a combination of the two. (ssa.gov)
  • Also, people who don't drink at all, as a group, have lower socioeconomic characteristics than light drinkers, which could be one of the underlying causes for the mortality differences, Rogers said. (scienceblog.com)
  • In a glowing review of Mortality in The New York Times, Christopher Buckley described Hitchens' seven essays as "diamond-hard and brilliant" and "word-perfect. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bowcott, Owen (1 July 2010) "Author Christopher Hitchens diagnosed with cancer" from The Guardian Grimes, William (16 December 2011) "Christopher Hitchens, Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, Dies at 62" in The New York Times Buckley, Christopher (30 August 2012) "Review of Mortality: Staying Power" in The New York Times Christopher Hitchens contributor page at Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/christopher-hitchens Hitchens, Christopher (2012). (wikipedia.org)
  • SAN ANTONIO -- Breast cancer mortality rates continue to decline in many nations, but a review of mortality trends in 47 countries around the world indicates some significant disparities, particularly in South Korea and some Latin American nations, according to results presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6-10. (eurekalert.org)
  • Although large, this n October 22, 2010, the first cholera case in a century number of deaths implies a small (1.1-fold) increase in was confirmed in Haiti ( 1 ), one of the poorest coun- the crude mortality rate for Haiti, where 90,000 deaths are tries in Latin America and the Caribbean. (cdc.gov)
  • Public health measures and a scientific approach to medicine have dramatically reduced infant mortality rates in developed countries. (livescience.com)
  • Yet, despite decades of clinical, scientific and legislative efforts, infant mortality rates in the United States remain high among developed countries, and wide disparities persist between demographic groups. (livescience.com)
  • Like under-5 mortality, infant mortality rates measure child survival. (who.int)
  • In the United States, the mortality rate declined 42 percent, from 22 deaths per 100,000 women in 1987-1989 to 14 deaths per 100,000 women in 2011-2013. (eurekalert.org)
  • However, the breast cancer mortality rate is still lower than the rate in the United States (5.3 per 100,000 women in South Korea compared with 14 per 100,000 women in the United States in the 2011-2013 period). (eurekalert.org)
  • The current study by Lee et al was a large one and suggests that health benefits in terms of mortality level off at 7500 steps per day. (selfgrowth.com)
  • BARCELONA -- The mist version of tiotropium (Spiriva) was as safe as the dry powder formulation in terms of mortality and cardiovascular events in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the TIOSPIR trial showed. (medpagetoday.com)
  • However, I do find a change in mortality risk by education over time. (ssa.gov)
  • A three-year study conducted at Seattle's Children Hospital found no significant change in mortality after CPOE was implemented in 2003. (stanforddaily.com)
  • The mortality studies that exist, and most of these are recent from 2015 to 2018, demonstrate that compared to those described as sedentary, those taking 10,000 steps per day experienced a 46% reduction in mortality in the decade of follow up. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Lead author Christopher Longhurst, an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, and his colleagues concluded there was a 20-percent reduction in mortality rates, after controlling for the rapid response team, seasonal variability and other factors. (stanforddaily.com)
  • A pulmonologist who was not involved in the study told Medscape Medical News that the findings of the trial suggest that PH may have a grester influence on mortality than is currently understood and that further investigations into this association could change practice in the future. (medscape.com)
  • This finding underlines the difficulty of isolating a single, common factor that would have a major influence on mortality trends," Pizot said, adding that future research on breast cancer mortality should focus on other facets of breast cancer management, including risk factors, drug therapies, access to care, and the use of multidisciplinary teams. (eurekalert.org)
  • The in-hospital mortality rate was 36.8% among patients with PH, compared with 24.6% among those without. (medscape.com)
  • By mid-April 2011 (end of the first wave of the cholera cholera mortality rate than previously reported. (cdc.gov)
  • The mortality rate is the ratio of the number of deaths in the year to the average total population of the year. (insee.fr)
  • What we found in that first hospital [in Nigeria] was that the maternal mortality rate in the hospital decreased substantially and the capacity to admit more patient increased. (zdnet.com)
  • Since 2014, Lesotho Female Infant Mortality Rate decreased by 1% year on year. (nationmaster.com)
  • The Wisconsin scientists looked at the 22 year mortality rate of over 1,500 subjects, taking data from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort, a longitudinal, community-based epidemiology study of sleep apnea and other sleep problems that began in 1989 under the leadership of Dr. Terry Young. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • With this treatment, it ends up having a 17% mortality rate, which is a substantial difference. (medscape.com)
  • The proposal would change mortality tables and interest rate calculations. (plansponsor.com)
  • Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-Mass.), the lead sponsors, introduced the bill just a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an ' absolutely devastating ' report that revealed the country's maternal mortality rate is rising, most of those deaths are preventable, and black and Native American women are three times more likely than their white peers to die of pregnancy-related causes. (commondreams.org)
  • It is unacceptable that the Unites States, the wealthiest country on Earth, has the highest maternal mortality rate [of] any developed nation in the world,' Pressley said in a series of tweets . (commondreams.org)
  • In 2010 the estimated maternal mortality rate was 287 000 where as in 1990 it was 543 000. (medindia.net)
  • In last decade, the global Maternal Mortality decline rate was 3.1% per annum. (medindia.net)
  • By comparison, people who drink between one and two drinks per day, on average, have a 9 percent higher mortality rate than light drinkers, while people who drink between two and three drinks per day have a 49 percent higher mortality. (scienceblog.com)
  • Despite confirming that some subgroups of nondrinkers have a higher mortality rate than light drinkers, it doesn't necessarily follow that those people's mortality rates would fall if they began drinking, Rogers said. (scienceblog.com)
  • The maternal mortality rate is higher in the US than in European countries (eg, Germany, Netherlands. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Infant mortality rate is a Millennium Development Goal indicator. (who.int)
  • The infant mortality rate is the probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching the age of 1, if subject to the age-specific mortality rates of that period. (who.int)
  • The new tables reflect the same individual-annuity mortality basis as the 2019 proposal (with an extra year of mortality improvement) and produce life expectancies a year or two longer on average than the current tables. (mercer.com)
  • Sepsis is a common pathology during specific mortality data available for devel- the neonatal period, with LBW the most oping countries to examine the risk of death important risk factor. (who.int)
  • They adjusted mortality data to take these factors into account. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • In this paper, the author uses the 1973 cross-sectional Current Population Survey ( CPS ) matched to longitudinal Social Security administrative data (through 1998) to examine the relationship between retirement age and mortality for men who have lived to at least age 65 by 1997 or earlier. (ssa.gov)
  • The Society of Actuaries (SOA) proposed mortality tables include mortality data from both single-employer and multiemployer defined benefit (DB) plans. (plansponsor.com)
  • Table 1 summarises mortality, air pollution, temperature and relative humidity data in the 18 Thailand provinces. (nature.com)
  • The Collaborating Hospitals Audit of Surgical Mortality (CHASM) in New South Wales provides comparable data to ANZASM, independently managed by the Clinical Excellence Commission of New South Wales. (surgeons.org)
  • To check the robustness of their findings, the researchers analyzed data from before and after the early retirement program and found no differences in mortality and early retirement trends between those two periods. (nber.org)
  • Researchers compared mortality from 2001 to 2007 and then to 2009 in a perspective control study that analyzed historical data and isolated variables using an "autoregressive integrated moving average model," said Jin Hahn, the co-author of the study. (stanforddaily.com)
  • Data analysis indicated two statically significant decreases in mortality: one decline after implementation of rapid response teams in 2005 and a second following the introduction of CPOE in 2007. (stanforddaily.com)
  • He studied them using data supplied by "Bills of Mortality" published by the city government. (maa.org)
  • Data have been collected using the Mortality Information System and were analyzed by the TabWin program. (bvsalud.org)
  • Estimates of excess deaths can provide a comprehensive account of mortality related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including deaths that are directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19. (planetizen.com)
  • People who drank more than three cups of tea a day did not have a lower mortality risk than those who drank between one and three cups. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Those who drank more than two cups of tea daily had a lower mortality risk from cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, and stroke. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • However, there are reports which state that moderate intake of alcohol has a protective effect regarding cardiovascular disease, which presents lower mortality rates compared to teetotalers and people who take part in exaggerated use (13) . (bvsalud.org)
  • As to the children who are born, in the 1980s child mortality went down. (voanews.com)
  • And in others, child mortality rates have not changed in the last 50 years, especially in African countries such as Lesotho, Nigeria and Madagascar. (voanews.com)
  • Additionally, children who grow up without fathers present are at risk for a wide range of adverse outcomes, and father absence was a strong risk factor for infant and child mortality in pre-modern societies. (livescience.com)
  • Comparing mortality trends between countries helps identify which health care systems have been the most efficient at reducing breast cancer mortality. (eurekalert.org)
  • Overall, breast cancer mortality declined in 39 out of 47 countries, including the United States and most developed European nations. (eurekalert.org)
  • South Korea had the most dramatic increase in breast cancer mortality, with an 83 percent increase overall and higher mortality in every age group. (eurekalert.org)
  • Such quick changes might explain the considerable shift in cancer mortality. (eurekalert.org)
  • University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health released a study today showing that those suffering from sleep apnea appear to have an increased risk of cancer mortality. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Our results suggest that SDB is also associated with an increased risk of cancer mortality in humans. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • In our large population-based sample, SDB was associated with an elevated risk of cancer mortality … Additional studies are needed to replicate these results. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • If the relationship between SDB and cancer mortality is validated in further studies, the diagnosis and treatment of SDB in patients with cancer might be indicated to prolong survival. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens. (wikipedia.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined maternal mortality as "the death of a woman during pregnancy or up to 42 days after the end of pregnancy, irrespective of the length or location of pregnancy, due to any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or measures in relation to it, but not due to accidental or incidental causes. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this study, Pizot and colleagues extracted information on breast cancer deaths from the World Health Organization database and calculated mortality rates over the years 1987-2013, stratifying results according to age groups. (eurekalert.org)
  • But for a man who has lived 72 years and 67 days (McCain's age on Election Day this year), there is between a 14.2 and 15.1 percent chance of dying before Inauguration Day 2013, according to the Social Security Administration's 2004 actuarial tables and the authoritative 2001 mortality statistics assembled by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (politico.com)
  • Actuaries are quick to point out that mortality statistics describe broad population trends. (politico.com)
  • Pizot said that the role of breast cancer screening is not clearly apparent in mortality trends. (eurekalert.org)
  • Recent trends in mortality from respiratory system cancer among Illinois residents : a vital statistics special report. (upenn.edu)
  • Recent trends in mortality from breast cancer among Illinois women. (upenn.edu)
  • The proportion of all-cause mortality attributable to tobacco was 6% for persons ages 30 and over. (who.int)
  • England and Wales had the sharpest drop in mortality, with a 46 percent decline. (eurekalert.org)
  • Perhaps the most welcomed demographic change in world population that has taken place is the decline in mortality levels, including infant, child and maternal death rates. (ipsnews.net)
  • A recent study by Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford School of Medicine has shown that mortality rates decline following the implementation of a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system. (stanforddaily.com)
  • Estimates of mortality risk for 'early' retirees are lowered when higher-risk age 62 retirees are combined with age 63 and age 64 retirees and when age 62 retirees are compared with a reference variable of age 63 and older retirees. (ssa.gov)
  • Drivers of mortality change differ substantially across groups. (marginalrevolution.com)
  • A new study conducted by Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford School of Medicine has demonstrated that hospital-wide mortality rates fall substantially with the introduction of a computerized physician order entry system (CPOE). (stanforddaily.com)
  • Among more than 156,000 hospitalized patients with ARDS, 16.8% of whom also had a diagnosis of PH, the presence of PH was associated with about a 50% higher risk for in-hospital mortality and a 37% higher risk for longer hospital stays. (medscape.com)
  • They also had in- creased risk of neonatal jaundice at 1 month, an increased risk of growth retardation and a much higher risk of mortality. (who.int)
  • In comparison, patients in both the 1987 RA criteria group and the 2010 criteria group showed significantly higher mortality. (medscape.com)
  • I find that men taking benefits at exactly age 62 have higher mortality risk than men taking benefits in any of the other four age groups. (ssa.gov)
  • I also find that men taking benefits at age 62 and 3 months to 62 and 11 months, age 63, and age 64 have higher mortality risk than men taking benefits at age 65 or older. (ssa.gov)
  • The differential mortality literature clearly indicates that mortality risk is higher for low-educated males relative to high-educated males. (ssa.gov)
  • If low-educated males tend to retire early in relatively greater numbers than high-educated males, higher mortality risk for such individuals due to low educational attainment would be added to the higher mortality risk I find for early retirees relative to that for normal retirees. (ssa.gov)
  • In general, the effects of all pollutants on all mortality types were higher in summer and winter than those in the rainy season. (nature.com)
  • Men in blue-collar occupations, men with low work experience, and men who had some pre-existing health impairment displayed higher mortality effects than men in white-collar occupations. (nber.org)
  • The meta-analysts found a 52% elevated relative risk of mortality with tiotropium Respimat overall compared with placebo, which increased to 2.15-fold elevated risk with the higher 5-mcg dose. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The pharma companies involved (Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer) countered with a patient-level meta-analysis of the trials that showed no statistical significance to the numerically higher mortality risk for patients on Respimat versus placebo. (medpagetoday.com)
  • As a class, people who don't drink at all have a higher mortality risk than light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • So this idea that nondrinkers always have higher mortality than light drinkers isn't true," Rogers said. (scienceblog.com)
  • The other subgroup of abstainers - whose largest reason for not drinking appeared to be a dislike of the taste and to a lesser degree family responsibilities, religious or moral motivations or upbringing - had a 17 percent higher mortality risk over the follow-up period compared with light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • The scientists also found that infrequent drinkers generally had a slightly higher mortality risk than light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • Former drinkers whose cluster of reasons for not drinking now included being an alcoholic and problems with drinking, for example, had a 38 percent higher mortality risk than light drinkers over the follow-up period. (scienceblog.com)
  • People who consume more than three drinks per day had a 58 percent higher mortality risk over the follow-up period compared with light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • The maternal mortality ratio is higher in the US than in other Western countries. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A study from the University of Bergen (UiB) concludes that people who have suffered from cardiovascular disease, and have a normal intake of vitamin D, can reduce their risk of mortality as a consequence of the disease by 30 per cent. (uib.no)
  • The improvements in mortality across all age groups have resulted in an average life expectancy at birth for the world of 70 years, a gain of some 25 years since 1950. (ipsnews.net)
  • Disparities by race and ethnicity in maternal mortality are significant worldwide. (msdmanuals.com)
  • We find that middle-age mortality increases among non-Hispanic whites are driven almost entirely by changes in the bottom 10% of the education distribution. (marginalrevolution.com)
  • Those same studies have shown that a person's mortality risk also increases at the other end of the spectrum - among people who choose not to drink at all - though the risk is still much less than for heavy drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • Although adjusted for differences in age-distribution and population size, rankings by state do not take into account other state specific population characteristics that may affect the level of mortality. (cdc.gov)
  • Differences in health care systems and patient management could explain discrepancies in mortality reduction between similar countries," Pizot said. (eurekalert.org)
  • O 3 air pollution is significantly associated with cardiovascular mortality, while PM 10 is significantly related to respiratory mortality. (nature.com)
  • The few published prospective studies of smoking and mortality in China have reported low relative risks, but the durations of follow-up were short. (nih.gov)
  • Previous prospective studies of smoking-related mortality in China tended to underestimate the risks, probably because of short durations of follow-up. (nih.gov)
  • This study highlights the effects of exposure to air pollution on mortality risks in Thailand. (nature.com)
  • The team then calculated the mortality risk for each subgroup compared with the mortality risk for light drinkers, and they found that the risks varied markedly. (scienceblog.com)
  • Abstainers who chose not to drink for a cluster of reasons that included religious or moral motivations, being brought up not to drink, responsibilities to their family, as well as not liking the taste, had similar mortality risks over the follow-up period to light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • You can find some groups of nondrinkers who have similar mortality risks to light drinkers. (scienceblog.com)
  • When the researchers examined the mortality rates of those who took early retirement, they found that an additional year in early retirement increased a man's probability of death before age 73 by 1.85 percentage points - equivalent to a relative increase of 6.8 percent - and reduced the age at death by 0.2 years. (nber.org)
  • For women, early retirement was not associated with elevated mortality, a finding that is in line with previous research by others. (nber.org)
  • We do have mortality of e.g. lung cancer, cardiovascular diseases, oral cancer. (who.int)
  • In this study, we examined the association between daily air pollutants (PM 10 , O 3 and sulphur dioxide (SO 2 )) and mortality (non-accidental, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases) in 18 Thailand provinces ( Figure 1 ). (nature.com)
  • Researchers found that the risk of all-cause mortality decreased by around 12% as tea intake increased to three cups per day. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The researchers suggest that lifestyle changes may explain the study's mortality findings. (nber.org)
  • Some researchers have hypothesized that the increased mortality among nondrinkers could be related to the fact that light alcohol consumption - drinking, on average, less than one drink a day - might actually protect people from disease and reduce their stress levels. (scienceblog.com)
  • for example, Brazil and Colombia saw mortality rates increase in women of all age groups, while in Argentina and Chile mortality rates decreased in all women. (eurekalert.org)
  • Heavy tea drinkers in the study were more likely to be smokers, have poorer general health and eat more red and processed meat, which may increase mortality. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • We find that not imposing a mandatory lockdown resulted in a lower reduction of mobility and a substantial increase in mortality. (nature.com)
  • An increase of 10 μg/m 3 in PM 10 , 10 ppb in O 3 , 1 ppb in SO 2 were associated with a 0.40% (95% posterior interval (PI): 0.22, 0.59%), 0.78% (95% PI: 0.20, 1.35%) and 0.34% (95% PI: 0.17, 0.50%) increase of non-accidental mortality, respectively. (nature.com)
  • For example, people who were problem drinkers in the past might increase their mortality risk further by starting to drink again. (scienceblog.com)