Health & Medicine
Hospitals, medicines, lifespans, and the numbers behind human health.
The Deadliest Cancers in the United States
Lung cancer is estimated to cause about one in five US cancer deaths in 2026, more than colorectal and pancreatic cancer combined. These are the American Cancer Society's statistical estimates, not counts, ranked by estimated deaths.
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The Tallest Hospital Buildings in the World
From Mexico's 179-meter Hospital Ángeles Andares to Denmark's Herlev Hospital, the 19 tallest hospital and medical buildings in the world, ranked by architectural height. Houston alone has five of them.
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Estimated US outpatient prescriptions filled in 2023, by generic drug, from the ClinCalc DrugStats database built on the federal Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: atorvastatin leads with about 115 million.
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The Asian Countries with the Highest Prostate Cancer Rates
New prostate cancer cases per 100,000 men, age-standardised, from IARC's GLOBOCAN 2022 estimates. Cyprus, Japan and Israel lead the 12 highest-rate countries in Asia, using the UN and IARC definition of the region.
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The Deadliest Pandemics and Epidemics in History
The 13 deadliest outbreaks on record, ranked by the midpoint of published death-toll estimates, from smallpox and the Black Death to the Spanish flu, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. Early-history figures are scholarly estimates with wide ranges.
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The Countries with the Highest Life Expectancy
Life expectancy at birth, both sexes, from the UN World Population Prospects 2024 (2023 estimates). Monaco and San Marino lead the sovereign states, with Japan the highest large country; non-sovereign territories such as Hong Kong are excluded.
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