We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … cancer. We find that both changes in smoking and in obesity are expected to have large effects on mortality. For males, the …

Decades of evidence reveal a complicated relationship between mammograms and mortality. Mammograms may detect deadly … cause symptoms. I provide a brief history of the evidence on mammograms and mortality, focusing on evidence from clinical … trials, and I discuss how this evidence informs mammography guidelines. I then explore the evolution of all-cause mortality …