According to an investigation in the November 23/30 issue of JAMA, approximately two-thirds of individuals with heart failure and infective endocarditis receive valvular surgery, which is associated with a considerable reduction in the risk of death in hospital and at one year following surgery...
A paper from the National Institutes of Health in the United States has evaluated the separate and combined effects of the frequency of alcohol consumption and the average quantity of alcohol drunk per occasion and how that relates to mortality risk from individual cancers as well as all...
An in-hospital delay of appendicitis treatment beyond two days was linked to an increased likelihood of complications, including perforation and abscess formation; longer hospitalization; increased costs; and more rarely, death, according an abstract presented Saturday, Oct. 15 at the American...
Some good news in the fight against heart disease with new figures released this week, showing deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the US on the decline, albeit that they were somewhat uneven amongst different states and ethnic groups...
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Phytoestrogens are plant compounds which, in the human body, can attach to the receptors for the female sexual hormone estrogen and which are taken in with our daily diet. A number of findings have attributed a cancer protective effect to these plant hormones. At DKFZ, a team headed by Prof. Dr...
A study in the August 10 issue of JAMA reveals, that despite the fact that overall black patients have a lower risk of death during dialysis than white patients, this seems to apply primarily to older adults; black patients age 50 years or younger have a significantly higher risk of death...
Although two thirds of Americans have been screened for colorectal cancer by 2010, approximately 22 million citizens still remain to be screened for this deadly disease. Presently colorectal cancer is the second largest cause of cancer related deaths in the United States; however if an...
Transvaginal ultrasound and the CA-125 blood test do not prevent females from dying of ovarian cancer - in fact the invasive medical procedures may be linked to health problems, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The...
Malnutrition in critically ill patients can lead to many negative effects, such as an increased risk of hospital complications, higher mortality rate, longer length of hospital stay, and higher resource utilization. Parental nutrition (PN) creates a well-documented positive change in critically...
Women with a healthy body weight before and after diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to survive the disease long term, a new study finds. The results were presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. The study, conducted in nearly 4,000 breast cancer...
In a developing country, a training program for midwives was successful at reducing infant deaths in low-risk births, reports a study in the November issue of Pediatrics. There are 3.7 million neonatal deaths and 3 million stillbirths per year worldwide - with 98 percent of these occurring in...
High levels of the stress hormone cortisol strongly predict cardiovascular death among both persons with and without pre-existing cardiovascular disease according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). In...
Postmenopausal women diagnosed with colon cancer may be at increased risk of death if they fail to maintain a healthy body weight before cancer diagnosis, according to a study published in the September issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association...
Research prize for Bochum's medics They also pointed out that the disease can be diagnosed and counteracted by means of a simple comparison between arm and ankle blood pressure carried out by a GP. Their highly regarded work has now been conferred the Best PAD Research Award 2010 by the...
New research, published by Elsevier in the Royal Society for Public Health's journal Public Health, provides compelling evidence that deprivation alone cannot explain the poor health experienced by Glasgow's residents. Although the link between deprivation and health is well established, work by...
A trial in Ghana has shown that vitamin A supplementation does not reduce maternal mortality-contradicting previous findings from a trial in Nepal which showed a 44% decrease. The new study (ObaapaVitA) is reported in an Article Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet-written by...
Undergoing surgical cancer treatment holds greater risk for people who also have diabetes than it does for people who just have cancer, according to a study being published this month in Diabetes Care. The study, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, found that people who have...
Undergoing surgical cancer treatment holds greater risk for people who also have diabetes than it does for people who just have cancer, according to a study being published this month in Diabetes Care. The study, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, found that people who have...
Increases In Infant, Maternal Mortality Lead To Life Expectancy Decline In North Korea Higher rates of infant and maternal mortality have lead to a decline of life expectancy in North Korea over the past 15 years, census figures, which were obtained with help form the U.N. Population Fund...
Anti-estrogens as therapy for breast cancer may also reduce the risk of death from lung cancer, according to study results presented at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held here Dec. 9-13, 2009. "We found a reduction in lung cancer mortality among women treated with...