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Aspirin Benefits Cardiac Disease Patients, Even Before Surgery

... six hours after their operation. The in-hospital mortality for the aspirin group (1.7 percent) was significantly less than that for those not receiving aspirin (4.4 percent), and there was no increased risk of re-operation for excessive internal bleeding. The study results suggest a reduction in strokes an...

Molecule That Aids Bacterial Infections Identified

...nteractions with the blood-brain barrier, reducing mortality rates up to 90 percent in mice. Source: Newswise ...

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement- a revolution in Cardiac Surgery

...e was successfully placed (80% of the cases). High mortality during follow-up has been related to non-valvular causes, mainly the evolution of life-threatening comorbidities. Two multicentre studies have just begun enrollment in Europe (REVIVE trial) and the US (REVIVAL trial) that will help to determine the...

Competitive Sports: Is the heart Sportive Enough?

...searchers would shortly be examining the impact on mortality of the increased detection of potentially lethal problems. It is ethically and clinically justifiable to make every effort to recognize in good time the diseases that put these athletes at risk, and to reduce fatalities. It has therefore been reco...

New Drugs For High Blood Pressure Better Than Old Ones

...ypertensive drugs for prevention of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity are well established. However, no individual trial using standard diuretic or Beta-blocker therapy, or both has shown a significant reduction in coronary heart disease. Previous studies have suggested that newer agents would confer adva...

European Countries To Fund $4 Billion For Vaccination For Poor Children’

..., referring to United Nations targets to cut child mortality by two thirds by 2015. Brown launched the more modest scheme with his counterparts from France, Italy, Spain and Sweden. He said the Europeans were encouraging other countries, including China and Brazil, to sign up. Britain has pledged 35 percent of...

Infertility rate in UK men increasing at an alarming rate with numbers rising over 2.5 million

...ng pressure as a result of declining fertility and mortality rates, it's only fair that men accept their responsibility in the equation and change their lifestyles now before it's too late. Simple steps such as giving up smoking and cutting down on alcohol should be encouraged not only for a successful concept...

PUFA Good For Heart: Gets The Scientific Seal

...demiological and clinical evidence indicating that mortality due to coronary heart disease can be reduced by pa...bly explain most of the major declines in coronary mortality in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia over several decades." For the first time, liqui...

Air Pollution Can Even Increase Death Rates

...ted. The results show that ischemic heart disease mortality risks rose by 25 to 39 percent for the 10 μg/m3increase in air pollution. Earlier studies took one or two pollution measures from several cities and compared health effects among cities. This study digs more deeply, taking pollution measures at 23 s...

Novel antibiotic dressing developed for improved wound healing

...icant health issue to be tackled and the number of mortality as a result of this keeps increasing every year. Antibiotic-resistant // bacteria, such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci, cause about 70 percent of such infections. In an attempt to reduce the incid...

Soy protein not only for women’s health but for men’s to.

...nalysis is supported by a cross-national review of mortality rates and nutritional data for 42 countries that found that populations with a higher level of soy consumption have a lower incidence of prostate cancer mortality.This new finding will be helpful in avoidance of prostate cancer appearance in men. The...

Soy Protein Not Only For Women’s Health But For Men’s To

...nalysis is supported by a cross-national review of mortality rates and nutritional data for 42 countries that found that populations with a higher level of soy consumption have a lower incidence of prostate cancer mortality. This new finding will be helpful in avoidance of prostate cancer appearance in men. T...

Medical Fraternity Urged To Revamp Indian Healthcare

...ators are among the worst in the world. Our infant mortality rates, our maternal mortality rates and the incidence of easily controlled diseases and epidemics are unfortunately among the wors...

Cardiac Disease May Be Hazardous In Pregnancy

...isk factor for maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Hemodynamic changes pre-exist in women ...sence of cardiac lesions can increase the maternal mortality rate up to 17%. Worsening cardiac status during pregnancy may need urgent surgical intervention du...

PM announces a new health care order for India

...phalitis. Besides this the atrociously high infant mortality rates, maternal mortality rates haven’t helped in putting India in a good position for the latest human development report of ...

A Vaccine for the impending pandemic Avian Influenza

...ient quantities, they can reduce the morbidity and mortality in pandemic situations. According to a news posted on Sept 28, 2005, government scientists at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced results from initial clinical trials of a vaccine being developed to protect...

Old is gold– proved yet another tim

...um falciparum and is associated with a significant mortality all over the world, especially in the developing countries. Chloroquine - which is far cheaper than more modern malaria drugs - works by blocking the way the parasite breaks down human hemoglobin contained in red blood cells. If the haem molecules ...

A new anti diabetic drug on the anvil

...s. Since diabetes causes significant morbidity and mortality due to long-term micro and macro vascular complications, new drugs are required to combat it. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has recently filed for Phase I clinical trials for GRC 8200, its leading DPP-IV inhibitor compound, with the Medicines and Healthc...

Need for concerted action for prevention of chronic diseases

...at preventive action is effective in terms both of mortality and morbidity and of health economic gains.However as it is a societal problem, all possible pressure and encouragement should be used to help them to actively accept their societal responsibilities....

Diabetic drug Pioglitazone found to reduce heart risk

... pioglitazone reduces cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with type-2 diabetes, and to assess the safety and tolerability of such treatment. The overall pattern of changes induced by pioglitazone suggests a general improvement in various risk factors, thus lowering heart risk. A total of 5238 ...

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