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New Hope for Kidney Failure

..., and currently, patients who experience it have a mortality rate of about 50 percent. The researchers say it is a major cause of death in seriously ill patients. They explain acute renal failure -- or kidney failure -- occurs because of renal tubule cell death. When the researchers examined the kidneys of the...

Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

..., and currently, patients who experience it have a mortality rate of about 50 percent and according to researchers it is one of the major causes of death in seriously ill patients. // A recently discovered molecule may have the potential to protect the kidneys from failing after injury, according to new rese...

Inhaled Corticosteroids Found To Have No Significant Effect On COPD

... have shown inhaled corticosteroids can reduce the mortality rate and number of exacerbations COPD patients exp... used inhaled corticosteroids did not have a lower mortality rate than patients who did not use the drugs. Researchers also say inhaled corticosteroids had no si...

The Effectiveness Of Screening Tests Questioned

...ese tests has been scientifically proven to reduce mortality rates. PSA levels in the blood can predict mortality from prostate cancer among men known to have the disease but there are no published randomized trial...

More Patients Going In For Home Dialysis

...sis treatment is superior over the other regarding mortality and complications, they do differ in procedural time length and location. Researchers surveyed nearly 650 patients at 37 dialysis centers around the country. The research shows that if given the option, kidney patients were 1.5-times more likely to...

Cholesterol-lowering drug Found To greatly Reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack

...edications each one was given. They then looked at mortality records.They found an overall 55 percent reduction in mortality rate for heart failure patients taking a statin a year after getting the drug. This finding held no ...

Understanding Lung Cancer Metastasis

...ther or not these brain metastases directly impact mortality from the disease, however, has been unclear. Researchers studied around 430 patients with SCLC. All underwent neurological exams on a regular basis throughout their treatment for the disease to check for problems in the brain. Results showed about 18...

Eye Disorders, A Predictor Of A Shorter Lifespan

...ke zinc, and these patients had a 27-percent lower mortality rate than those not taking zinc. "The beneficial effects of zinc on mortality in this study may be related to an improved immune response, which is known to decrease with aging,"...

Ovarian Cancer Screening Questioned

... existing evidence that any screening test reduces mortality from ovarian cancer. They say the majority of women who have a positive screening will not have ovarian cancer. Specifically, researchers say out of 100 women who test positive, only two actually have ovarian cancer. However researchers say women who...

Depression Found To Be A Major Cause for Death in Elderly

...djusting for various demographic factors, 18-month mortality was almost 70 percent higher in those depressive s...n men. Depressed men were not at increased risk of mortality compared with men with some symptoms of depression. One of the strengths of this study is that it i...

The Success Rate Of Angioplasty In Female Patients Low

... study. The study, conducted in Taiwan, looked at mortality rates and other factors among a group of about 870...n played key roles in explaining the higher 30-day mortality rate in women than in men....

The Effects Of Delaying A Delivery Questioned

...d. Thus researchers say the lack of difference in mortality suggests that obstetricians are delivering sick preterm babies at about the correct moment to minimize mortality. Researchers feel the results of this study should discourage doctors about an immediate delivery and promote waiting to deliver until it...

Drug Found To Bring Relief For Individuals With Early Parkinson’

...ions without substantial side effects or increased mortality .However they say that large, long-term comparative trials that include patient-rated quality of life measures are needed....

The Efficacy Of Newer Stents Questioned

...luting stent. The analysis found no difference in mortality rates or subsequent heart attacks in the two groups. However researchers say long term follow-up is needed to fully determine the safety and effectiveness of drug-eluting stents, especially in patients considered at high risk of complications....

Long-Term Benefits Of Statins Questioned

...und out that long-term use of statins may decrease mortality rates and even the incidence of cancer.// The tri...cular death was reduced by 17 percent and coronary mortality decreased by 24 percent in patients who took the drug simvastatin, also known as Zocor, for 10 years...

Reducing The Rate Of Hospital Acquired Infections

...MRSA) is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality and the incidence of MRSA continues to increase.// Hospitals have relied on three methods to prevent the spread of MRSA including better hand hygiene among health care workers, restriction of antibiotics, and the detection and isolation of infected p...

Depression A Cause for Death in Elderly

...djusting for various demographic factors, 18-month mortality was almost 70 percent higher in those depressive s...n men. Depressed men were not at increased risk of mortality compared with men with some symptoms of depression. One of the strengths of this study is that it i...

Detecting Lung Cancer Early

...see if regular scanning for lung cancer can reduce mortality from the disease....

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...n 62 countries of the world, there are no maternal mortality data whatsoever. "If dead women are not even coun...ave not died. There is a stark divide of maternal mortality between the rich and poor countries. In some developing regions, a woman has a one in 16 chance of d...

Steroid Treatment after head injury may be fatal

...39 hospitals from 49 countries the trail found 21% mortality rate within 2 weeks for those treated with the 48-... 0.05)," the authors note. "By clearly refuting a mortality benefit from corticosteroids in head injury, the CRASH trial results should protect many thousands o...

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