SM Day – Mortality Research & Consulting

Life Expectancy of Persons with Profound Developmental Disabilities

February 27, 2020

This is a brief review of: Eyman RK, Grossman HJ, Chaney RH, Call TL. The life expectancy of profoundly handicapped people with mental retardation. N

Case fatality rate of Covid-19: Losing more sleep over denominators

February 27, 2020

Corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) appears to have first infected humans in the Wuhan province of China sometime in late 2019.1 In many of the earliest

Dr Reynolds to begin contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

March 21, 2019

Dr Robert Reynolds has accepted an “out-of-this-world opportunity” to work with NASA scientists “to improve and interpret analytical assessments of research and astronaut health data”. Supported by

Reynolds and Day will present two posters at SPER and SER annual meetings 2018

June 14, 2018

The annual meetings of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER) and the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) will take place in Baltimore,

Cerebral palsy life expectancy: The litigation connection

May 25, 2018

The 1998 book Damages by Barry Werth chronicles a malpractice lawsuit in the US related to the 1984 birth of a boy with a severe brain injury.1 The

Comparative mortality and risk factors for death among US Supreme Court Justices: An update

February 20, 2016

Background February 13, 2016 saw the unexpected death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia was born March 11, 1936, making him just

In the midst of an epidemiologic revolution

June 28, 2015

The 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research took place in Denver, Colorado 16-19 June 2015. For me, the highlight of the Meeting

Are doctors experts on life expectancy?

April 29, 2015

In Doctors are not experts on life expectancy1 David Strauss and Robert Shavelle noted that some clinicians testifying as expert witnesses on life expectancy did

Road traffic mortality

February 19, 2015

The CDC reports in the latest MMWR bulletin that road traffic accident fatalities declined for both males and females in the 15-19 and 20-24 year

Simpson’s Paradox and the MLB

October 23, 2014

Well, it’s October, and the World Series is under way. Good time to talk baseball I’d say. So here’s a blast from my own past

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