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Quality Awareness In Hospitals Can Reduce Mortality Rate Of Patients

...reated after the effort started. In general, the chance that a patient would die within a month or a year of going home from the hospital was 21 percent to 26 percent lower after the quality-improvement effort. The findings, published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardio...

Quit smoking for healthier gums

...und that smokers who quit the habit have a greater chance of saving their teeth than non-smokers. The research, which was conducted at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, tracked a group of 49 chronic smokers over a year and counseled them to kick the habit. Around one-fifth of the smokers quit and it wa...

Terminally Ill Patients Could Be Offered A Better Life

...e terminally ill and also those who stand a better chance of cure if given treatment in time, Indian groups will join global bodies to mark Oct 8 as World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. "State governments need to replace ancient rules that cause some impediments in providing terminally ill people with an...

Radiation in Hodgkin’s increases breast cancer ris

...searchers found that women had a 40 percent higher chance of developing breast cancer if they survived Hodgkin's lymphoma. Dr Lois B. Travis, from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, the lead author of the study said, "This study is the first, to our knowledge, to estimate the cumulative ab...

Terminally Ill deserves a better quality of Life

...e terminally ill and also those who stand a better chance of cure if given treatment in time, Indian groups will join global bodies to mark Oct 8 as World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. "State governments need to replace ancient rules that cause some impediments in providing terminally ill people with an...

Fertility Treatment Offered During Summer Has Better Chances For Success

...entiful, the weather warmer and they have a higher chance of survival. The findings on this study have valuable clinical implications. However, further research is needed in order to identify the positive effect of daylight on reproduction....

Annual PSA screening reduces risk of prostate cancer deaths

...n who underwent regular screening had a 65 percent chance of being diagnosed with less aggressive prostate cancer, as opposed to only 24 percent in men who had irregular screening. Also men who regularly followed up had only 3.6 percent chances of dying from prostate cancer....

Three Sisters Have One Baby and Make History

...,000 pounds. They were told there was a 25 percent chance of success. Despite the odds, Ritchie became pregnant during the first attempt at implanting the embryo in her womb. The twin sister who carried the fetus said 'But I would definitely do it again if she wanted another baby. I just carried the ba...

Prose Memory Deficits Found To Be Associated With Schizophrenia

...ptomatically, but only one in five patients have a chance of full recovery....

AIDS control requires co-coordinated move regarding safe sexual practices

...hip from all sectors is believed to stand a better chance in facing success with the AIDS control program. The media has a very important role in shaping up public opinion regarding shaping public opinion and creating an environment supportive of HIV prevention, care and treatment. It can help fight the ass...

Abortion Does Not Increase Risk Of Depression In Women

... the issue of whether abortion increased a woman’s chance of suffering from depression. The study that looked at US women who aborted or delivered an unwanted pregnancy reveal that pre-existing mental health might be a better predictor of depression risk. Surprisingly, women who opted for a termination re...

Eloxatin combination reduces bowel cancer recurrences

...t all eligible patients to have access to the best chance of cure and although the final guidance may take some months to be confirmed, patients should start speaking now to their clinicians to ensure that they are offered the option of the most effective treatment for their particular type of bowel cancer....

Testicular Cancer Patients Have Improved Reproductive Outcomes After Treatment

...he same success within 20 years. Furthermore, the chance of successful conception was found to be dependent on the type of treatment as anticipated. Men treatment with high doses of chemotherapy had a 48 % success while the success rate for those followed by surveillance alone after the cancerous testicle ...

Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet

...ir Y chromosomes suggested there was a 50 per cent chance that all three had the same father, grandfather or great-grandfather. Though the boy’s genetic father was anonymous, his mother knew the donor’s date and place of birth and his college degree. Using another online service, Omnitrace.com, he bought t...

Decline in Paternity Rates Following Treatment for Testicular Cancer

...d with the higher chemotherapy dose had the lowest chance of becoming fathers. // Germ-cell testicular can....e., more than 850 mg of cisplatin) had the lowest chance of becoming fathers. However, even among these most intensively treated men, almost half were able t...

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

...n the molecular level, giving the patient a better chance of survival and sparing the trauma of chemotherapy as well as radiation therapy. This is the first time that an attempt has been made to deliver a therapeutic agent against oral cancer...

Fairer sex Has A Better Chance Of Surviving Lung Cancer

... (ACCP), CHEST 2005, says that women have a better chance of surviving lung cancer than men even without tre...ntreated patients women had a 21 percent decreased chance of succumbing to the cancer than men. These findings have led researchers to theorize that lung canc...

Palmist Claims to Diagnose Ailments Looking At Your Palm

...on. After a round of treatment, this patient had a chance meeting with Mohanan, who read his palm and suggested that he was a diabetic patient, which he had hid from me. "After putting him through a test and new medicines, his problem was over," said Venugopal. Apart from the mounts, the intricate lines o...

Embryonic Genetic Testing Is Boosting IVF Pregnancies

...omosomal abnormalities that may affect an embryo's chance of survival once it has been implanted in the uterus. PGD was developed to detect birth defects or diseases that develop in childhood that reduce the length and quality of life. However in recent years researchers have identified numerous disease-c...

Good Response from Pregnant Women in Delhi for Free ART Therapy

...sion of HIV. A pregnant mother with HIV has a 30% chance of transmitting the infection to her child. The risk of transmission during vaginal delivery. The only way to reduce this type of transmission is encouraging women to come forward to get tested for the virus. Several programmes have been accomplish...

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