Milken Inst Report on the Financial Impact of Chronic Disease

Interesting report on the cost of Chronic Disease (Free)

Bird Flu

As winter approaches the problem of bird flu rears its ugly head again. Here are some sites that are good for monitoring the advance of the killer influenza:

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/

Health, United States

    Health, United States is an annual report prepared by the National Center for Health Statistics which looks at trends in US health. The complete report can be found here. If you dont want to read the whole report check out the executive summary or just look at the charts and graphics

US Cancer Statistics

Starting off today on a somewhat somber note…cancer epidemiology. It’s not surprising that as diseases go, resources for cancer are pretty easy to come by.

Data’s available from several national agencies:

ACS (American Cancer Society)

Cancer Statistics for 2006

Most requested graphs and data

ACS Powerpoint Presentation

National Cancer Institute

General Page

2006 Annual Report