Annual deaths in U.S. drop in biggest decline since at least World War II

Thursday, April 20, 2006

ATLANTA -- In what appears to be an amazing success for American medicine, preliminary government figures released Wednesday showed that the annual number of deaths in the U.S. dropped by nearly 50,000 in 2004 -- the biggest decline in nearly 70 years.

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