Here are some thoughts on various things.
Anyone who’s ever watched Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel knows that commercial fishing is dangerous work. But exactly how dangerous is it?
In a previous post we reviewed the literature on the mortality of Major League Baseball players. We have also recently contributed two papers to the peer reviewed literature on this subject. (1-2)
We recently summarized our findings on the mortality of Major League Baseball (MLB) players born outside the United States. In the source study we hypothesized that violent crime may have been responsible for some of the excess mortality observed for
By far the most commonly studied health outcome involving data from the MLB is mortality.
The international standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury were originally developed in 1982.
The international standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury were originally developed in 1982.