1.  Pedro Lopez left his Bronx home in a big hurry one morning several months ago and became a medical statistic by nightfall.

2.  But some researchers, such as Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at Oxford University, believe those conclusions were flawed.

3.  Greenpeace said it has been impossible to get comprehensive nationwide data on dioxin pollution because local authorities have kept medical statistics under wraps.

4.  Medical statistics reveal that staph infections cause deaths by the thousands every year throughout the world, even in the developed and highly industrialised countries.