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Study Finds the Effect of Alcohol and Aspirin in TBI Patients

...ic brain injury (TBI) every year and 60,000 people die annually from these injuries//. TBI is the ultimate cause of death in 40 percent of all fatal trauma cases. TBI may result from a direct blow to the brain or from the secondary effects of head trauma such as bleeding, swelling, decreased oxygen, or i...

Expert Warn- Odds Still Stacked Against Hormone Replacement Therapy

... long-term user of HRT and one in every 3,300 will die from it. The risks of breast cancer are the highest, accounting for a probable 20,000 cases over a decade. The article also says the ovarian cancer risks should not be taken in isolation. Says Beral: "In total, ovarian, endometrial and breast can...

Popular Herbal Supplement Hinders the Growth of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

...of three plants, caused pancreatic cancer cells to die through a process called apoptosis – the body’s no...dicine. "Triphala triggered the cancerous cells to die off and significantly reduced the size of the tumors without causing any toxic side effects." Dr. ...

Sleeping With The Enemy

...rding to the study, many of these men would rather die than let their wives know about their sexual preferences or affairs. Hudson says that it is this fear that leads to infections being spread. Hudson adds:"A lot of men will commit suicide because they don't see any other way out. Instead of hurti...

A Discovery That may Lessen a Health Disparity

...). These same individuals were much more likely to die within 10 years. “Learning more about the way a specific type of cancer develops, and what proteins it produces as it grows, helps us find better ways to treat that cancer,” said Dr. Lai, who is a cancer researcher at Mayo Clinic with background as...

Bird Flu Claims Its 14th Human Victim in Egypt

...nothing short of a pandemic, and many humans could die due to the outbreak. /V...

Stem Cells Provide New Tool for Studying Disease and Identifying ALS Drugs

...ntists have not known whether motor neurons in ALS die because of a problem within the cell—or from outside the cell. The study by Eggan's group describes successful use of a novel embryonic stem cell-based model for ALS that will help scientists to answer this and other questions. Utilizing this model b...

Measuring Calcium Intake Help to Identify Osteoporosis in Prostate Cancer Patient

...ll hip fractures, but they are much more likely to die after an injury of this nature than women, so it is important to identify possible risks at an early stage" adds Dr Planas. Hormone treatment ranged from 12 to 98 months, with an average of just over 42 months. Men with bone disorders or secondary...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

... that he would often ask me why we did not let him die in the first place.” Following media reports over shabby treatment of soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, an independent panel had charged that money woes and neglect at the highest level were to blame for the sorry cond...

Climate Change Threatens Sundarbans and World Heritage Sites

...g events, cases in which corals turn white and may die due to rising sea temperatures. At least 58 percent of the world's coral reefs - home to hundreds of thousands of fish species - are considered to be at risk. Source-IANS/V...

US Confronted by a Major Healthcare Crisis, Say Critics

...nd isolation, I imagine a lot of the elderly might die prematurely or suffer unnecessarily. Witnessing this from the vantage point of middle age is frightening. Everyone should be covered, automatically, period. Let the wealthy buy more insurance for the spa-experience in medical care. The basics s...

Male Child Birth Dropping in US and Japan

...ity rate, and male black babies are more likely to die than females. “Given the higher mortality rates for African-American males in the United States, these results re-emphasize the need to determine all factors, including environmental contaminants, which are responsible for this continuing health di...

Doctors Treat Early Heart Attacks Before Labs Could Confirmation It

...lving” heart attack were 19 percent less likely to die or have a second heart attack within 30 days than patients who were immediately diagnosed with a heart attack. Although the exact reason for this finding cannot be determined from this research, this finding could be due to earlier treatment, said Mi...

Sleep Disorder Linked to Heart Failure Patient Deaths

...ents with untreated sleep apnea are more likely to die than those without this sleep disorder, says a study//. The study followed 164 patients with heart failure for more than seven years, and found that those with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) had double the death rate of those patients who did not h...

A Broken Heart can Break Lifeline

... heart due to bereavement could make the aggrieved die from a broken heart, scientists// said. A British team found that sections in the brain in charge of memory, learning and emotion can upset the cardiac muscle in people who are grieving. They say that important regions in the brain get caught up...

Clinical Trials for a Low-dose Steroid Therapy for Bone Marrow Cancer Prove Positive

...ltiple myeloma and an estimated 10,790 people will die of the disease. SRM...

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

...e cells in the brain, called the substantia nigra, die or become impaired. These cells produces dopamine, a chemical, which allows smooth, coordinated function of the body's muscles and movement. When approximately 80% of the dopamine-producing cells are damaged, it results in the Parkinson disease. ...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

...s, that unless they stop smoking half of them will die prematurely. Someone who starts smoking aged 15 is three times more likely to die of cancer due to smoking than someone who starts in their late 20s. Despite bans on television to...

Groups Join Forces to Fund Promising Lung Cancer Research

...cancer each year, eighty-five percent of whom will die within five years without the development of new treatment methods. Partnering with the foremost physicians and research scientists in the world, the LUNGevity Foundation funds innovative research designed to treat and cure lung cancer.Source: Americ...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...on new cases each year, and nearly 350,000 Indians die of the disease annually. Malaria kills hundreds each year, especially in India's poor northeast region. According to India's Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises, the country's total biotech exports in the financial year that ended March 20...

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