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Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...an be made. They are continuing to collect data on hospitalized STEMI and ACS patients in 30 countries around the ... shelves of nearly every patient who has ever been hospitalized for chest pain or a heart attack – and patients need to make sure to keep taking those drugs long af...

Legionnaires Outbreak in Australia

...ource of the outbreak. Three men have already been hospitalized and confirmed to be suffering from the legionnaires. Legionnaires Disease is a potentially fatal form of pneumonia and it is caused by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila and related bacteria that can be found naturally in environmental water sou...

Low Serum Potassium Levels Linked to Increased Death Risk in Heart Patients

... patients were not significantly more likely to be hospitalized than the higher potassium group, suggesting that most low potassium associated deaths were sudden deaths due to ventricular arrhythmias, he added. The findings of the study were published in the June issue of the European Heart Journal....

More Than 270 Medicines in Testing for Heart Disease and Stroke

...und that death rates and rates of heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients were cut nearly in half since 1996, probably due to better treatments like new cholesterol-lowering drugs and blood thinners, and angioplasty.' The report notes that according to the National Center for Health Statistics, hear...

A Tipple a Day may Be heart Friendly for Women

...volume and drinking patterns of women who had been hospitalized due to a heart attack, with age-matched controls without heart problems. Women who had a prior heart attack, coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty, angina or a previous diagnosis of cardiovascular disease were excluded from the study. Participan...

Better Working Conditions for Nurses Might Decrease Patient Infections

... pneumonia and skin ulcers, which are common among hospitalized patients who cannot move regularly, were also reduced in units with high staffing levels. Patients were also less likely to die within 30 days in these higher-staffed units. Increased overtime hours in ICUs were associated with increased rates of a...

Suspected Human Infection of Birdflu Reported in Vietnam

...tested positive for lethal H5N1 strain after being hospitalized in serious condition. If the diagnosis is confirmed, the resident of the Vinh Phuc province with population of about 1.1 million will be the first victim of the virus in 14 months, deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Huan said. Earlier reports sa...

Moderate Drinking Lowers Women's Risk of Heart Attack

...volume and drinking patterns of women who had been hospitalized due to a heart attack, with age-matched controlswithout heart problems. Women who had a prior heart attack, coronary bypass surgery,angioplasty, angina or a previous diagnosis of cardiovascular diseasewere excluded from the study. Participants --...

Extremist Christian Preacher Dies of Heart Problems

...ed two serious health scares in early 2005. He was hospitalized for two weeks with what was described as a viral infection, then was hospitalized again a few weeks later after going into respiratory arrest. Later that year, doctors found a 70 per...

Beef Firm in US Withdraws Its Products from Markets After E. Coli Outbreak.

...Seven persons took ill and three persons had to be hospitalized before they recovered. Severe stomach cramps and diarrhea are the known symptoms of E.Coli. PM Beef, the meat company believed to be responsible for supplying tainted stuff, withdrew nearly 117,500 pounds of beef it had shipped to eight states. ...

Younger Women At Risk Of Heart Disease

...r than 55 years make up less than 5 percent of all hospitalized heart disease patients, this is still a large number of women, according to the AHA. Young women with heart disease account for about 40,000 hospitalizations each year and 16,000 deaths.The number of younger women who die from coronary heart disease ...

Baby Aspirin Better for Your Health, University of Kentucky Study Says

... a quarter of a million Americans each year may be hospitalized with bleeding complications caused by needlessly taking a daily dose of an adult-sized aspirin rather than a baby aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke. A study by a group of UK HealthCare Linda and Jack Gill Heart Institute cardiologists fo...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...an be made. They are continuing to collect data on hospitalized STEMI and ACS patients in 30 countries around the ... shelves of nearly every patient who has ever been hospitalized for chest pain or a heart attack and patients need to make sure to keep taking those drugs long aft...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

...e last six years, death rates and heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients have fallen sharply- most l... to have another attack within six months of being hospitalized when compared to the patients treated six years earlier - a sure sign that the more aggressive effor...

Best-performing Hospitals Has Reduced Cardiovascular Mortality

...r. "We know we can do better, especially for women hospitalized for stroke or a heart attack, which make up 60 per...years 2003 through 2005, 15,925 deaths among women hospitalized for cardiovascular disease could have been potentially prevented. The national number would be much ...

Rural Work Ethic Curbs Elderly Heart Care

...ontrolling heart failure symptoms and having to be hospitalized for a lengthy time, he noted. The researchers we.... In addition rural patients are more likely to be hospitalized than their urban counterparts, and due to differences in prescribing, are less likely to get the dru...

Eating Disorder Figures Among Children Soars

...l Democrats show that the number of children being hospitalized with eating disorders has risen by a third in the last decade. This mainly comprises of people under the age of 18. The most common disorders are anorexia nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and binge eating disorder. It can have severe consequences to a perso...

Pneumonia Patients Develop Heart Risks

...usher, MD, studied the records of all 170 patients hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia at a Texas Veterans A... center from 2001 to 2005. Study suggests patients hospitalized with pneumonia may be at serious risk of new or worsening heart problems. They found that 19.4 per...

Ukrainian Town Under A Canopy Of Toxic Skies

... 34 children. Quick to point out that not everyone hospitalized had serious symptoms, Haydayev was quoted: "We hospitalized all children who feel discomfort in their eyes or throats, at their parents' insistence, but this do...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

... . Two Texas children and an Indiana couple were hospitalized with botulism in late June and earlier this month.... is rare. The paralyzing illness can leave victims hospitalized for months and is fatal in about 8 percent of cases. Fewer than 30 cases a year are linked to food, ...

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