UN: Deaths up from cancer, diabetes, heart disease
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global economy of trillions of dollars, according to U.N. estimates and preliminary results of a new study....