Round-Up: Risk-of-Death Charts, Violent Death Rates, Obit Magazine and More

A collection of articles, posts, and websites from around the web this week.

• The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, published risk-of-death charts, offering the public way a simpler was to view health threats. The charts stress the three factors that most influence mortality, the person's age, gender, and smoking status. Read the news coverage from WebMD and the Associated Press.


• The New York Times reports on the high rate of suicides among violent death statistics. Over half of all violent deaths are the result of suicide, from 2005 data.


• An op-ed appearing in The Wall Street Journal by the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs, urges the Senate to pass a bill that would allow terminally ill patients access to experimental drug treatments.


• An article from The New York Times discusses the role of geriatric care managers.


• And last, Obit Magazine, which describes itself as a magazine that explores death as an integral part of life.