Thankful For Health Improvements

The Wall Street Journal recently 20 recent health advances, here are the highlights:

• Fewer Americans died in traffic fatalities in 2008 than in any year since 1961 (whew)
• Life expectancy in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 77.9
• Death rates dropped significantly for many leading causes of death: cancer, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, accidents, diabetes, homicides and pneumonia
• The proportion of undernourished children world-wide under five declined to 20% in 2005 from 27% in 1990.
• The U.S. divorce rate dropped by one-third from 1981 to 2008, and is at its lowest level since 1970 (though this may be because people are marrying less).

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.