Causes Of Death: 1900 vs. 2010

Here’s a nifty little chart from the New England Journal of Medicine that shows how far we’ve come, and how far we still need to go, in the field of medicine over the last hundred and ten years.
It’s surprising to note how much more cancer we deal with nowadays, and how heart disease rates have risen despite all the advances we’ve made in the realm of cardiology.
Enjoy a weekend free of gastrointestinal infections everyone!

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