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U.S. life expectancy drops

Publish date: November 30, 2018

 

U.S. life expectancy is down while drug overdose and suicide are up sharply. Also today, an increase of less-distressed patients is driving an increase in outpatient services, the American Society of Hematology releases new guidelines on VTE ahead of ASH 2018 and commentary from Francis Collins, MD, denouncing reports from China on CRISPR-cas9 editing on embryos.
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