11.   So what explains a recent finding that black patients being treated at Veterans Administration hospitals had lower mortality rates for six common diseases than white patients?

12.   The drugs also helped limit deaths to five people, a much lower mortality rate than in past anthrax outbreaks.

13.   Only in northern and southern Africa, eastern Asia and Central and South America were the latest estimates of maternal mortality marginally lower than previous figures.

14.   Breast cancer and suicide in women and prostate cancer in men were the only areas where indigenous people had lower mortality rates.