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Chinese Medicinal Compound Stops Formation of Cysts in Polycystic Kidney

...nt a year, compounded annually, patients would not die from this disease. A relatively small effect would have an enormous clinical benefit," says Dr. Crews. Source-Eurekalert/V...

Significant Rise in Proportion of Chronically Ill Children Dying in Intensive Care

...erinatal disease were more than twice as likely to die in intensive care, while older children with cancer were more than six times as likely to die in other hospital wards. The authors say that guidance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and C...

Satraplatin Benefits Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients

...isease in 2007 and over 27,000 men are expected to die from the disease. In the European Union, over 20...iagnosed, and over 60,000 patients are expected to die each year. Since the incidence of prostate cancer increases with age, the aging of the overall p...

Number of Uninsured in North Carolina on the Rise

...ent. The uninsured are 25 percent more likely to die a premature death, Holmes said. “Having access to estimates of the percent of local residents without health insurance enables institutions such as public health departments, hospitals, and physicians to plan for meeting the needs of the uninsured ...

Simple System Accurately Predicts Weight-loss Surgery Risk

... the high-risk group were six times more likely to die than those in the low-risk group, and patients in the medium-risk group were three times more likely to die. Gastric bypass surgery, also known bariatric surgery, is used to help people who are morbidly obese lose weight. Although the surgery has s...

Texas Lawmakers Give The Boot To Cervical Cancer Vaccine

...st was quoted “I’m thinking of the women that will die because we didn’t act.” Last year, 400 women died due to cervical cancer, which is argued to be preventable by the vaccine in question. “We did not want to be the first in offering young girls for the experiment to see if this vaccine is effective o...

New blood test to detect prostate cancer

...t 230,000 American men each year, and about 30,000 die of it. The death rate is 2.5 times higher among blacks than among whites. GPL/V...

Fugitive Who Ditched His Ailing Son Arrested After a Year

...st knowing that he ran away and left me up here to die like that,' Destin Perkins said after receiving news of his father's capture. 'That's just one of my main questions, is why he did it and how he could do it.' 'There's a lot of anger between me and him right now,' Destin Perkins said. 'I would like...

Two Out of Five Cancer Cases in India Due to Tobacco

Claiming that nearly 2,000 Indians die due to cancer every day, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Tuesday said at least two out of every five cancer// cases in the country were due to tobacco consumption. "In India more than 40 percent of cancer cases are due to tobacco. The relationshi...

Unknown Virus Takes the Life of Three Transplant Patients

...is virus, which caused many transplant patients to die in the United States. Dr Mike Catton from the Victorian Infectious Disease Laboratory, said, "I'm very pleased that out of a sad episode we've been able to draw some conclusions and find something new in a world first. It’s a new virus and it's a...

Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced

...fer digestion and respiratory problems and tend to die early. Both these conditions are caused by so-called "nonsense mutations" in the child's DNA meaning that the sufferer lacks a vital protein. Accordingly, in most genetic conditions, between 5-15 per cent of cases are caused by a defect called a “no...

MMR Immunization Drive Begins in Iraq

...health experts, nearly 10% of the// children could die in the face of an epidemic. Iraq's Ministry of Health is conducting the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) immunization campaign which will be on for two weeks. This is being funded by the European Commission. The World Health Organization and UNIC...

Merced Firm Slams Slaughterhouse for Contaminated Meat

...buting, Goblin and Richwood. The bacteria would die if the meat is cooked properly. BIN/V...

Cancer Time Bomb Threatening Economic Infrastructure

...ion. WHO has reported that almost a million people die due to this cancer. Another major fatal disease is the stomach cancer. This is growing at a rate of 25% in a year. Mainly due to the westernization of the Asian diet there is a major increase in the consumption of red meat and alcohol. This has giv...

Two Indians on Team to Battle Cervical Cancer

...ncer-related death among women. Over 260,000 women die every year from this disease, with 80 percent of these cases occurring in the "developing world". Cervical cancer is highly preventable, but this problem is overlooked by most public health organizations. "ImaGyn has garnered resounding support f...

Vaccine for Pancreatic Cancer Halts Progression of Disease in Some Patients

...asymptomatic and progresses quickly. Most patients die within six months of diagnosis. These factors limit the amount of data available for research, hindering significant advances in the understanding and treatment of the disease. Source-Eurekalert RM...

Scientists Identify Critical Gene Factor in Heart Development

...ot divide. When a heart attack occurs, heart cells die and cannot be replaced. Understanding how cell division works in the heart may lead to ways to turn it back on or to use stem cells to fix the damaged heart. Finally, the team was able to see all of the genes that a specific microRNA affects. Each...

Thalassaemic Child's Parents Campaign for Awareness

... which the red cells of the blood are abnormal and die fast leading to anaemia. After several years, iron gets deposited in various organs, affecting their function and leading to death. India is believed to have nearly 30 million carriers of the thalassaemia gene. It is reportedly more prevalent among...

HRT Increases Incidence and Deaths from Ovarian Cancer

... likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and to die of the disease, according //to a study published in the Lancet* today. Results from the Million Women Study, which is the biggest study of its kind in the world, show that over five years there is one extra case of ovarian cancer in every 2,500 wome...

WHO Concerned About Growing Two-wheeler Deaths in Asia

...WHO noted that nearly 1.2 million people worldwide die as a result of road traffic collisions every year. Of these, 40 percent are under the age of 25. Millions more people are injured and often remain disabled for life. In low and medium-income countries, victims are often pedestrians, cyclists and mo...

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