Science news articles about 'federal statistics'

... time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday....

... ,000 babies are born too soon each year and recent federal statistics show that the nation's preterm birth rate has risen to 12.8 percent -- a 36 percent increase since the ...

... has trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep and 3 in 10 experience occasional sleeplessness, federal statistics show. ¶ But these are definitely not good times. More than 1 in 4 -- or 27% of ...

In the United States, an estimated 23.6 million people -- or 7.8% of the population -- have diabetes, federal statistics show. Of those, 5.7 million are undiagnosed.