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Detecting Lung Cancer In Its Initial Stages

...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...

Positive Thinking

...ng to the new study. Results show there were 397 deaths over nine years. Those who reported high levels of optimism had a 55 percent lower risk of death overall and a 23 percent lower risk of cardiovascular death, than those who reported high levels of pessimism. Another interesting fact that came out th...

Cardiac Valve Disease Linked To Genes

...f aortic and mitral valve disease . Results show deaths from nonrheumatic mitral and aortic diseases are c...risk by 2.5-times more . However, the study shows deaths from rheumatic heart disease, with the disease clustered mainly around nuclear families, may be infl...

Enhancing Survival Rate Of Lung Cancer Patients

...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 chemotherapy....

Epilepsy Patients Could Benefit From Pacemakers

...ndition with a pacemaker could avert many of these deaths say researchers. All of the patients in the study received an implantable device to monitor their heart rhythms. Researchers followed the group for about two years. Over that time, the patients experienced a total of 377 seizures. Among 16 patients,...

Risk Of Developing Infections High In Patients Who Suffer From Abdominal Trauma

...n was observed. Infection is responsible for most deaths in trauma patients who survive longer than 48 hours after trauma. Intra-abdominal infection [organ/surgical site infection] in patients with abdominal trauma constitutes one of the most frequent infectious problems and poses a major challenge to trau...

Diabetics Found To Be At An Increased Risk Of Developing Cancer

...s for 10 years and tracked new cancer // cases and deaths caused by cancer. Study results showed patients with diabetes and those without diabetes but with higher fasting blood sugar levels were more likely to develop cancer or die from cancer. The group with the highest fasting blood sugar levels had highe...

Canada withdraws ADHD drug Adderall XR

... with ADHD. The drug has been linked with about 20 deaths and ten cases of strokes, some of those affected being children. Although none of the deaths have taken place in Canada, the popular drug has been taken off the markets in Canada. Federal Dru...

More Treatment Options For Malaria

...ildren who do make it to the hospital, half of the deaths occur within the first day of admission. Most anti-malaria drugs are given by injection, making it difficult to administer outside of a hospital. In order to more effectively treat malaria and save lives, researchers say more treatment options need ...

Routine use of steroids can lead to death for patients with brain injury

...ed that there seems to be an increase in number of deaths due to corticosteroids than placebo. 21% of the patients died after placebos, versus 18% of people who died without the administration of the drug. Corticosteroids are hormones administered in treating inflammation that may result from a number of ...

Drop in Worldwide Measles deaths by 40%

...is a vaccine-preventable condition. Global measles deaths have come down 39%, from 873 000 in 1999 to an est...ensive vaccine," This dramatic decline in measles deaths hyas been possible thanks to the commitment of many governments to fully implement the WHO/UNICEF s...

Decisions On End-of-Life Treatment Found To Vary From Country To Country

...sions not to treat were reported for 41 percent of deaths in Switzerland, 30 percent in the Netherlands, 27 percent in Belgium, 23 percent in Denmark, 22 percent in Sweden, and 6 percent in Italy and in all of the countries except Italy, medicine was the treatment most forgone. Thus in conclusion research...

Chances are high for Avian Influenza virus altering its form

...h 24 deaths. August to October 2004: 9 cases and 8 deaths December 2004 to present: 25 cases and 14 deaths Although all the deaths except one had happened in Vietnam, the last death was reported from Cambodi...

Greek Study Shows Living In The Hills May Be Healthier

...clusion showed that there were 290 deaths, with 67 deaths from coronary disease. Total deaths and deaths due to coronary problems were lower for the people living in the hills than those living ...

WHO report asks for improved healthcare for mother and child

... year before their fifth birthday. Most of these deaths are due to lower respiratory infections, diarrhea, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS. Availability of oral re-hydration therapy, antibiotics, anti-malaria drugs, and insecticide treated bed nets are some very common treatments that can successfully stop ...

Meditation may reduce stress and help you live longer

...o prevent and control high blood pressure, rate of deaths due to all causes or cardiovascular disease to elder people who suffer from systemic hypertension. The study results were published in The American Journal of Cardiology in tits current issue....

Diet to lower heart disease risk for type 2 diabetes

...body. The single largest cause of diabetes related deaths happen from cardiovascular disease, and high levels of LDL cholesterol increases the risk of death from cardiovascular causes.An adult is supposed to take about 25g to 30g of fiber in his diet, as per the recommendation of the WHO. The study says mos...

Ordinary drugs can interfere with death from cardiac problems

...ti-psychotic and gastro-intestinal drugs can cause deaths from cardiac arrest. The new study, which was published in the European Heart Journal, said that the non-cardiac drugs interfere with the electrical activity controlling heartbeats that can increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. These drugs are...

Test to predict ovarian cancer

... cancer in women is ranked 4th in terms of causing deaths due to cancer. The new test is based on four proteins, leptin, prolactin, osteopontin and insulin-like-growth-factor II, if the level of two of these biomarkers fall within a pre-designated zone then the patient is certain to have ovarian cancer. ...

Race an important links to the risk of advanced colorectal cancer

...for causing up to 11 percent of all cancer-related deaths in the United States . The Prognosis of the cancer is dependent on the stage of disease at the time of diagnosis. The study reveals wide variations in colorectal cancer stage of diagnosis and mortality. Some ethnic groups have a 10 to 60 percent ...

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