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Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

One-third of SIDS deaths could be prevented if all pregnant women stopped s... on how their babies should sleep has reduced SIDS deaths by 70 per cent since 1989, however last year 158 babies still died from SIDS," said Dorothy Ford fro...

Renal problem alleviated

... stones, with renal failure leading to about 7,000 deaths in the UK each year....

New Drug ALT-711 decreases blood vessel stiffness

...stiffness could have a major influence on reducing deaths from heart disease. For the current study, investigators at nine U.S. clinical centers recruited 93 people over the age of 50 who showed evidence of vascular stiffening, including high systolic blood pressure and pulse pressure of at least 60 mm Hg. ...

Statins reduce heart attacks

...se to 1.1 million heart attacks and half a million deaths attributed to heart disease each year. // The aim is to reduce levels of LDL cholesterol, the so-called bad cholesterol, especially in people with heart disease, diabetes, or multiple risk factors for a heart attack. Statin drugs work by slowing...

Gas Masks Don't Always Fit an Emergency

...hich already hampers your breathing. There were 20 deaths during the Gulf War associated with wearing the gas masks improperly. And those were people who were trained to use them. But if you insist, buy the best. The device used by firefighters or emergency medics who get to a disaster first is a self-con...

Biotechnology on the lead

... of half a million people would cause up to 93,000 deaths within a week. Part of the problem would be identifying anthrax as the cause of death, however. Dr Craig Hunter, CEO of Celera Genomics, which has just published a version of the human DNA sequence, said new advances in biotechnology could speed up...

Detection of Cancer

...o-rectal cancers - the four major causes of cancer deaths worldwide."The ability to do a broad test for cancers will be extremely important, as early detection is a major factor in determining the success of cancer treatments," said Professor Pat. The C-test also has the advantage of being less invasive th...

Mouthwash as a weapon

... saliva of mosquitoes which causes as many as 3.2m deaths worldwide every year. While a practical way of using the agent has yet to be fully developed, the increasing resistance of the parasite to existing anti-malarial drugs is causing concern to health officials.Any potential new avenue of attack is lik...

Cirrhosis on the rise

... alarming rise in liver cirrhosis cases, cirrhosis deaths are increasing sharply in women after having incre...ear-olds, there has been an eight-fold increase in deaths among men, and seven-fold among women. Cirrhosis of the liver now kills 1,600 women a year, compared...

Strokes increased during squatting

...Doctors in Calcutta, India found a third of stroke deaths occurred while people were squatting.// Results presented to the World Congress of Neurology in London showed how doctors started investigating when they realised they were seeing more stroke patients in the morning than any other time of day. Doct...

Bar Codes For Prescribed Drugs

The medical mistakes are responsible for the deaths of up to 98,000 Americans annually, and that medication errors are among the most frequent of these mistakes. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will propose a rule that would require drugmakers to put bar codes on their products in...

Early puberty more resistance

...a child and age at which the menopause started, on deaths from hip fractures. They studied 54,000 women over a period of 31 years. Of these, 465 died as a result of a hip fracture in the course of the study. Those whose first period was separated from their menopause by less than 30 years were twice as li...

Unnatural death common in mentally ill

...a comparative study They found that one quarter of deaths among the mentally ill were from unnatural causes: one per cent from homicide, 60 per cent suicide and 15 per cent accidental death. This means that people with a mental illness are six times more likely to be a victim of homicide than the general po...

Target for obesity treatment

...elieved that obesity is linked to at least 300,000 deaths in the US annually. Researchers have pinpointed a gene( PPARgamma) that puts the finishing touch on turning cells into fat. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the drug company Pfizer, working independently, and identified the gene which is...

Infection linked with heart attack

Risk of heart deaths is increasing day by day. The number of infections a person has been exposed to is linked to artery thickening and risk of death from heart attack. It is long been suspected that infection plays a role in the development of heart disease.// This has ...

Fasten belt at the back seat

... According to researchers in Japan the majority of deaths of front-seat car passengers could be prevented if...-seat passengers had belted up, 60 per cent of the deaths could have been prevented. The message is clear - belt up in the back, as well as the front, if you ...

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

...uggested that immunisation can protect against cot deaths in babies.Sudden infant death syndrome is still the leading cause of death in children over one month old,//even though advice given to mothers about babies'sleeping position has dramatically reduced the numbers of deaths. Scientists from Bristol U...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...t carry out a high number of operations have lower deaths rates than those with a low volume of cases. David...low-volume centre. Less than a fifth of the excess deaths at the Bristol Royal hospital during the early 1990s can be attributed to the fact that it performed...

AIDS toll set to exceed Black Death

...xt 10-15 years we could have as many as 65 million deaths from this disease," said Peter Lamptey, president of the Family Health International AIDS Institute a non-governmental agency based in Arlington, Virginia. The illness has decreased life expectancy, increased infant mortality and orphaned millions ...

Monday malady

...thor Dr Cheryl Rodrigues said: "The Monday peak in deaths from coronary heart disease in Brisbane may be partly attributable to increased drinking at the weekend, although other mechanisms, such as work-related stress, may be important....

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