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Detecting Lung Cancer In Its Initial Stages

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

Reconstituted Blood Better For Young Hearts

...eding, transfusion requirements, complications and mortality rates. But the infants who received the reconstituted blood had significantly shorter stays in both the intensive care unit and the hospital, and spent less time on a respirator after the surgery. Researchers conclude saying that their results show ...

Depression Found To Increase Stroke Risk

...e men for another 19 years, tracking morbidity and mortality rates. In conclusion researchers say their findings suggest a need for doctors to discuss depression with patients at risk for cardiovascular disease and implement the corresponding psychosocial interventions as part of the medical management....

Preventing Bone Metastasis In Patients With Breast Cancer

...cidence of skeletal-related events, morbidity, and mortality in those patients who develop bone metastases despite treatment at the time of occurrence....

New Drug That Might Help Congestive Heart Failure Patients

...urs, indicating a decrease in fluid retention. The mortality rate was also lower for those in the Tolvaptan group. Researchers say there were no changes in worsening heart failure between the groups at 60 days. Based on the results of the above study researchers conclude saying that they now have an agent th...

Diabetes A Common Problem In The Elderly

...mitted to the hospital for various causes.Overall, mortality rates rose as average glucose levels rose, with th...in the normal range (100 mg/dL to 119 mg/dL) had a mortality rate of 12.2 percent. The highest rate was seen for those with glucose levels above 300 mg/dL. Those...

The Use Of Implants After Breast Cancer Questioned

...r factors, researchers conclude that breast cancer mortality in patients with breast implants is about half that of patients without implants. Thus researchers conclude saying that further study is needed to explain the apparent benefit of breast implants for breast cancer patients. ...

The Effectiveness Of Inhaled Corticosteroids Studied

... 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. It was also observed that inhaled corticosteroids had ...

The Effectiveness Of Inhaled Corticosteroids Studied

... 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. It was also observed that inhaled corticosteroids had ...

Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Found To Increase The Risk Of Fractures

...d cancers and the therapy has been shown to reduce mortality and help keep tumors in check. Specialists have been using the above method of treatment for men with cancer that is confined to the prostate. The men undergoing treatment were found to have a much lower risk of death or spread of the cancer, and tre...

Drug Reviparin Found To Reduce Death Rate After Heart Attack

...roke at seven and 30 days. Researchers found total mortality was reduced from 11 percent of patients in the placebo group to 9.6 percent in the reviparin group a 13-percent lowered risk. Benefits were still seen at 30 days with significant reductions in death rate and significantly lower numbers of additional ...

The Addition Of Radiation Therapy Found To Improve Survival In Breast Cancer Patients

...e included a 32-percent reduction in breast cancer mortality and a 27-percent reduction in overall mortality. Additionally, long-term toxic effects, including cardiac deaths, were acceptable for both groups of patients. Thus researchers say, their results, and those from other studies, confirm that in situati...

A New Evaluation Tool That Could Predict Death Risk in Heart Patients

A new evaluation tool can predict the mortality risk in patients hospitalized with heart failure s...ffers a simple, quick way for clinicians to assess mortality risk upon hospital admission and quickly decide on a treatment strategy. Researchers used data from...

Routine use of steroids can lead to death for patients with brain injury

...njury. Although the trial accounts for increase in mortality rates by using steroids, researchers are also of opinion that more tests may be done and the result with maximum number of observations may only be accepted. Link: http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/AB000196.htm...

Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Effectively Treated With Chemotherapy

...nger women had similar reductions in breast cancer mortality and recurrence from regimens with aggressive chemotherapy. However, only 8 percent of patients studied were ages 65 or older, and about half of new breast cancer cases occur in the age group. Thus researchers conclude saying that based on their data...

Drop in Worldwide Measles deaths by 40%

...EF strategy and initiative for sustainable measles mortality reduction. The report mentioned that measles had so far been an important cause of childhood deaths. It was only a decade ago that measles killed millions of children every year and affected almost 30 million more, leaving many with life-long disa...

Better Treatment For Hypertension

...t a continued significant disadvantage. “All-cause mortality was different in those on the beta-blocker and diu...ed by about 15 percent. Strokes and cardiovascular mortality were reduced by about 25 percent. Additionally, patients on the older treatment had about a 30-perce...

Promised Drug Doesn't Help Acute Heart Failure

...her tissues. Its presence is a strong predictor of mortality in acute heart failure. No difference in dyspnea, or a significant breathing problem, for the two groups of hospitalized patients over 24 hours. After a week, there was also no difference between the placebo group and group receiving tezosentan in i...

Measuring Death Risk in COPD Patients

...ew test may be an effective tool to help determine mortality in patients suffering from COPD and they recommend the test be used in future evaluations of COPD patients....

Enlarged waistline may predict atherogenesis for postmenopausal women

...or 8.5 yrs to estimate the risk of cardiovascular mortality and the progression rate atherogenesis. Atherogenesis is the process of plaques etc forming in the inner lining of the arteries that make them hard causing a state of atherosclerosis. This causes disturbed blood flow and may cause serious damage to h...

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