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Carbon monoxide passes down

... inhaled and is involved in a number of accidental deaths and suicides each year. //The main sources of carb... They find a decrease of 20 per cent in accidental deaths and 6.0 per cent in suicides, linked with carbon monoxide, between 1980 and 1997. In other words, ne...

National Lung Study in the process

...ke other cancers that have had a reduced number of deaths in recent years, the death toll from lung cancer has remained unchanged. Nearly 120,000 people die each year from lung cancer. This is more than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancer combined. Researchers hope this study will prove effective in...

Clean air protects lives

...ere was a 5 percent decrease in non-trauma related deaths and a 20-percent decrease in respiratory deaths. Researchers say they even observed a 15-percent decrease in cardiovascular deaths. In a second study reported in the same medical journal, researchers from the Netherlands observed the link between tr...

Caesarean may aid twins

...neonatal death among second twins born at term. No deaths were recorded among 420 second twins delivered at term by planned caesarean section. The absolute risk of death for second twins was one in 320 due to lack of oxygen during birth and one in 420 for lack of oxygen due to mechanical problems. Researc...

Specialist care convalesces intensive care survival

...re intensivists have both reduced ICU and hospital deaths and a reduced length of stay in the ICU. But at present, only one hospital in ten employs these critical care specialists....

Renal problem increased

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

Inadequate proof to justify routine prostate screen

...in conjunction with digital rectal exam can reduce deaths from prostate cancer....

Do you heed to healthy eating advice?

...eat more fruit and vegetables, as a way of cutting deaths from heart disease, cancer and other conditions....

Early detection of colorectal cancer may be hindered by coloured toilet disinfectants

...he more easier it would be to reduce instances and deaths from this terrible disease....

Blood pressure control with ACE inhibitor or diuretic?

...e was the same in both// groups, but the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease was 11 percent lower in the ACE inhibitor group. Study author Dr. Christopher M. Reid of the Baker Heart Institute in Melbourne said that the differing results could have been due to the difference in the ethnic makeup of...

Risk of early neonatal death high in infants born in the night

...chers did not observe a similar increase in infant deaths during childbirth at night relative to daytime births, suggesting that night time factors may only affect early infant care, and not deliveries themselves. Also, researchers added that the risk that a newborn will die during the first week of life is...

Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

...en identified worldwide with more than 50 reported deaths mostly in Asia. More dramatically the Italian doctor who discovered this illness recently succumbed to the disease in Thailand.// Dr.Carlo Urbani (46) a an expert on communicable diseases woking for WHO was the first to identify Severe Acute respira...

WHO Travel Advice to prevent spread of "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

...d a cumulative total of 2416 cases of SARS with 89 deaths from 18 countries. Recent deaths have occurred in Hong Kong SARS (3), Malaysia (1), and Singapore (1).New cases that were reported re...

An Indian Bride with signs of SARS

...sease in India, but Singapore has reported 16 SARS deaths and the disease has been spread previously by air travelers....

Obesity linked to cancer death

...y weight may contribute to about 20% of all cancer deaths in women and 14% of all cancer deaths in men. The American Cancer Society researchers conducted a study on 900,000 adults who were initial...

Awareness increase Prostate cancer detection

...n cancer, it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men, after lung cancer. Because of better detection there has been a increase in number of detected cases. Most men are uncomfortable as the screening consists of digital rectal exam and a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. In rectal exam...

WHO Declares Vietnam First Country to Control SARS

...try to contain its SARS outbreak. Vietnam had five deaths from SARS after the virus spread in February through Hanoi's international hospital. There was about sixty three people affected by the virus. However Hanoi French Hospital closed its doors, there by reducing the rate of infection and keeping SARS fr...

Mammograms Reduce Risk of Dying

... during the 70's and 80's concluded X-rays can cut deaths from breast cancer. But later researchers reanalyz...lives.// In the latest study, researchers compared deaths from breast cancer diagnosed in the 20 years before and after mammogram screening was introduced. Th...

China reports declining number of SARS Cases

...ad of the SARS epidemic last month. Two additional deaths also were recorded today in Beijing and Inner Mong...der control there. Health officials reported three deaths and six probable new cases of SARS. Worldwide, SARS has caused nearly 725 deaths and infected well o...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...co Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and disease on 22nd May 2003. The Convention requires countries to impose restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion, establish new labelling and clean indoor air controls and strengthen legislation to clamp down on tobacco smuggl...

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