The Wall Street Journal reports on "20 health-care advances to give thanks for this Thanksgiving." Among the most key: "Life presentiment in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 77.9 years in 2007, the latest year for which matrimony marriage statistics are available, continuation school a long upward trend. (That's 75.3 years for men and 80.4 years for women.) ... Death rates dropped significantly for eight of the 15 leading causes of death in the U.S., including cancer, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, accidents, diabetes, homicides and pneumonia, from 2006 to 2007."

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