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Diabetes cases could double in developing countries in next 30 years

...d with diabetes is substantial: at least one in 20 deaths worldwide is attributable to diabetes. In financial terms, direct health care costs range from 2.5% to 15% of annual health care budgets, and indirect costs such as loss of production may be five times this number. Diabetes is a chronic disease char...

Air Pollution said To Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

...suggest air pollution leads to respiratory-related deaths rather than cardiovascular-related deaths, //new research shows that may not be the case. The researchers aren’t sure how air pollution increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, but suspect it may lead to inflammation, and thus greater blockag...

Improving Survival Rate Of Lung Cancer Patients

...nts for the largest number of new cancer cases and deaths from cancer // annually. Investigators in an inter...hers say their results indicate that roughly 7,000 deaths from non-small-cell carcinoma would be averted annually with the use of adjuvant cisplatin-based che...

New Way to Detect Spread of Skin Cancer

In England, skin cancers cause 16,000 deaths each year due to the spread of the disease to other parts of the body. // Previously, the best way to predict whether melanoma was likely to spread was by measuring its thickness. It was believed the thicker a tumor was, the more likely it was to sp...

The Effectiveness Of Chickenpox Vaccine Questioned

...ne. Researchers conclude, "…in the United States, deaths from varicella and other complications in immunocompetent persons still occur and will continue to occur until the infection in eliminated. It is important to monitor closely the incidence of varicella an the effectiveness of the vaccine over time to...

Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

...t 3 percent of all cancers and causes about 12,000 deaths in the United States every year. The disease most often strikes those in their 50s and 60s. Standard treatment involves removal of all or part of the kidney. Unlike some other cancers, however, kidney cancer does not respond well to subsequent treatm...

Understanding Lung Cancer Metastasis

...hose without the distant cancer. About half of the deaths among those who developed brain cancer were directly attributed to the brain cancer....

Understanding The Link Between Hormone Replacement and Respiratory Disease

...percent to 8 percent of Americans have asthma, and deaths due to COPD have risen more than 40 percent since 1982. Since the prevalence of asthma tends to change over time, with boys more likely to have the disease before puberty and girls more likely to have it after puberty, researchers speculated hormone ...

Folic Acid Found To Be Beneficial For Stroke Patients

...ive.// Researchers say about 31,000 stroke-related deaths and about 17,000 heart disease-related deaths may have been prevented each year since fortification was implemented. Folic acid lowers homocystei...

An Increase In Number Of Lung Cancer Deaths in Women

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths by almost 20,000 patients a year. Past studies have shown women are more // likely than men to develop adenocarcinoma, a subtype of lung cancer. Women who have never smoked are also more likely to develop lung cancer than men who have never smoked....

The Logic Behind The Spread Of SARS

...In 2003, Hong Kong had // 1,755 SARS cases and 299 deaths in a population of 6.7 million. A recent study explains the large community outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong. It seems the air may be to blame. Investigators say, for future prevention and control, health care professionals must take the potential for...

Cancer Treatment Harsh On Patients

...gnosed each year in the United States, with 12,000 deaths annually.// Researchers say there are about 500,000 new cases worldwide each year.More than half of head- and neck-cancer patients surveyed in a new study say they are disabled by their cancer treatment. Researchers conducted a study where 384 patie...

New Treatment Option for Colorectal Cancer

...olorectal cancer causes about 10 percent of cancer deaths each year.Researchers say that doctors may soon have one more option // for patients who have colorectal cancer that resists standard chemotherapy treatment. New research shows the drug cetuximab, also known as Erbitux, may be a promising new therapy...

The Benefits Of Dual Therapy for Patients With Prostate Cancer

...n the radiation-only group. Lastly, there were six deaths due to prostate cancer in the radiation-only group and no deaths from prostate cancer in the combination-therapy group. Thus researchers conclude that a short-term ...

Long-Term Benefits Of Statins Questioned

...terol. It also reduced cardiovascular and coronary deaths by 36 percent and 43 percent, respectively. Thus researchers say their findings suggest that 10-year statin use was associated with a decreased incidence of cancer, but the 12-percent reduction for long-term statin users was not statistically signif...

Cardiac – Rehabilitation Programs Beneficial for Heart Patient

...k. Overall, researchers estimate about half of the deaths that occurred among patients in their study were due to not taking part in a cardiac-rehab program. The investigation involved about 1,800 patients. Nearly 60 percent participated in cardiac rehab after having a heart attack. Men, younger people, an...

Detecting Lung Cancer Early

...th worldwide, accounting for more than 1.3 million deaths a year. // Since the disease is hard to detect in early and treatable stages, most cases are found only after the cancer has spread. Studies have shown CT scans can identify the disease in an early stage in individuals considered at high risk for lun...

Improving Life Expectancy

... deficiencies. They found 47 percent of premature deaths and 39 percent of total diseases around the world in 2000 resulted from a combination of risk factors. Some of the health problems that resulted were diarrhea, lower respiratory infections, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart di...

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...se of a woman's death. WHO estimates that maternal deaths are under-reported by as much as 50% because deaths are not classified correctly, or more often, not counted at all. In 62 countries of the world, there...

Steroid Treatment after head injury may be fatal

...risk 1.18, p = 0.0001). "The relative increase in deaths due to corticosteroids did not differ by injury severity (p = 0.22) or time since injury (p = 0.05)," the authors note. "By clearly refuting a mortality benefit from corticosteroids in head injury, the CRASH trial results should protect many thousan...

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