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Family Planning Initiatives Central To Reducing Child Mortality in Developing Countries

...More than 10 million children under age five still die each year," Save the Children CEO Charles MacCormack said, adding, "That's almost 28,000 a day - almost all in developing countries. The interventions that can save these lives, such as vaccines, oral rehydration therapy and insecticide-treated mosq...

Brooding Could Kill, Warn Psychologists

...says. There's no proof that chronic overthinkers die sooner because of it, he says. But one new study suggests that may be the case, at least for men. The study began with more than 1,600 men ages 40 to 90. At the start, they were given personality tests. They were tracked for 17 years to see how a tra...

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

...remy Harper, 19, who had seen three of his buddies die in Iraq and was a victim of severe post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He refused his medals and kept to his room in the dark, heavily medicated, which everyone noticed. On New Year's Eve 2004 he was seen wandering in the lobby of one of the W...

Younger Women At Risk Of Heart Disease

... and 16,000 deaths.The number of younger women who die from coronary heart disease each year is about equivalent to the number of women who die of breast cancer in the same age group, the association stresses. "Women in this age group may not...

Aspirin can Prevent Bowel Cancer, Says UK Study

... diagnosed with bowel cancer, and more than 16,000 die from the disease. The researchers looked at the results from two large-scale UK trials carried out in the late 1970s and early 1980s covering over 7,500 people which had given some people 300, 500 or 1,200mg per day doses of aspirin or a dummy pil...

Scientists in Britain Create Artificial Blood

...iversity's Department of Chemistry. "Many people die from superficial wounds when they are trapped in an accident or are injured in the battlefield and can't get blood before they get to hospital. "This product can be stored a lot more easily than blood, meaning large quantities could be carried easi...

Estrogen is Important for Bone Health in Men as Well as Women

...eal, 25 percent of those who suffer a hip fracture die within a year, and 40-50 percent have some degree of disability or need nursing home care. "It's a very serious problem," she says. "People of retirement age are looking forward to their leisure time, but if they fracture a hip, there are so many thi...

US County to Compensate Woman Wrongly Quarantined for TB

...rom "the apprehension of thinking she was going to die or whatever else goes with" such a diagnosis. After about two months in isolation, Ryan was allowed to return to work but continued on multiple medications, Kitson said. Then, the Health Department apparently rechecked the results and discovered t...

Study Revises Dynamin's Role in Nerve Cell Function

...sential to all synaptic activity, these mice would die very soon after birth. But the pups were born, a...ty, so young mice without dynamin 1 eventually did die off, usually within a week or two of birth. 'These findings really change our outlook on dynamin 1...

Large Intake of Calcium from Dairy Food Linked to Dementia in Elders

...them. When it happens in the brain, neurones may die as a result of blood deprivation, which in turn may cause the lesions that increase the risk of cognitive impairment, dementia, depression and stroke....

Dont Worry- Be Good To Your Heart

... highest 25 percent were nearly twice as likely to die of a heart attack or death from any cause compared with those with scores in the lowest 25 percent. Further analysis of the data revealed that with high blood pressure, diabetes, and other known cardiovascular risk factors, each unit increase in th...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...eavy toll the world over. Almost 100 million girls die every year, whether in the womb itself or as infa...ar still suffer genital mutilation, half a million die during pregnancy - the leading killer among 15 to 19-year-olds - every 12 months and an estimated 7....

WHO Launches Yellow Fever Initiative for West Africa

...children born each year, two to three million will die from vaccine-preventable diseases. "The Yellow Fever Initiative will be able to vaccinate at-risk populations and thus quickly reduce the risk of devastating outbreaks that could otherwise threaten the region and the world," Mike Ryan, Director of ...

Researchers Find Link Between Sleep Disorder and Dementia

...cases of patients who have had RBD for decades and die from heart disease, stroke or cancer, and never show any signs of dementia or parkinsonism." Boeve said. The findings of the study are published online in the journal Brain....

25,000 Needless Deaths Each Year Due to Failure to Tackle Blood Clots in Hospital

Up to 25,000 people may die needlessly each year due to the failure to prevent blood clots known as venous thromboembolisms (VTE) in UK hospitals , say experts in this weeks BMJ. Their warning follows the publication of official guidelines on the issue last month by the Natio...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

... the tumour that tell neighbouring cancer cells to die too." In lab experiments, mice with bowel tumours that received the therapy lived twice as long as those that did not. The researchers suggest their technique could one day be used as a treatment for advanced bowel cancer that doesnt respond to sta...

Quality Versus Quantity: Transforming Kidney Transplant Policy

...may be given to patients who are almost certain to die long before the replacement organ wears out, while patients with longer life expectancies may be given organs with a high chance of graft failure, making second or even third transplants necessary later in life. Recent attention has been focused on...

Significant Differences in Stroke Prevalence Among U.S. States & Territories - CDC Report

...who have already had a stroke. Over 160,000 people die each year from stroke in the United States. Nearly one out of four states, including the District of Columbia, had a high stroke prevalence of 3 percent and above. These include Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississipp...

Hair Relaxers Not Linked With Breast Cancer Risk

...ll ages, African-American women are more likely to die of breast cancer than are Caucasian women. Because hair relaxers are more widely used by younger African-American women than they are used by older African-American women, a connection with increased risk of breast cancer in younger women seemed po...

Ganges River Dolphins Continue to Die in India

... the endangered dolphins in the Ganges continue to die of pollution and activities like fishing - with t...ade ago. Wildlife experts say that most dolphins die after getting entangled in fishing nets. The mammals are also killed for their meat, skin and oil. ...

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