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Monday malady

...ack to work on monday could bestow to an increased rate of heart attack. A 7 year study carried out in Aus...ween 1985 and 1993, and it was found the mortality rate was at pinnacle on Mondays. Deaths of women under 55 with no previous history of heart disease inc...

OxyContin Abuse Continues To Rise

...ry 12 hours. Abuse of the drug has led to higher rate of overdose deaths and narcotics crimes. Oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin, was detected in 56 cases where toxicology tests were performed in 2000 and 2001. Of those people, 23 took fatal doses of the drug....

Cancer hazard Found With Animal-Based Nutrients

...d with lower risk of these kinds of cancers. The rate of a specific type of esophageal and stomach cancer, has increased by 300 percent since the mid-1970s, according to lead author Mayne, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. The researchers...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

...ference between the two groups in the complication rate seven days following the arrest. The study shows that hypothermia may indeed be an effective treatment for cardiac arrest....

Osteoporosis associated with Childhood Cancer

...mon form of childhood cancer and its survivability rate is reaching 80 percent because of the effective drug combinations. It's not only a personal problem for the individual patient and his or her family, it has the potential to become a tremendous public health issue. Survivors of childhood ALL who suf...

Depression hurts the heart

...bjects with mild depression experienced a fatality rate that was 50 percent higher than normal. Brenda ...ng of the hormone cortisol, this could cause heart rate and blood pressure to rise.Other factor could play a part: Depressed people are lesslikely to excer...

Additional Radiotheraphy for Breast Cancer

...nts who had the boost had an overall local control rate of 95%, and survival at five years was 91%. The largest benefit was seen in women aged under 40, where the chances of recurrence were cut by 54%. Patients will be followed up for many years to see whether booster doses will also cut mortality. Thes...

Obesity increases health costs

... a fall in quality of life at nearly four time the rate of smoking or alcohol abuse....

Lethal Heart Condition linked To Cocaine Use

... in the hospital, which was almost twice the death rate of the non-cocaine users. ...

Chew to improve memory

...ain a person's telephone number. He said the heart rate of the real chewers after the tests was three beats per minute faster than the non-chewers, and 1.5 beats per minute faster than the "sham" chewers. The "sham" group generally performed better than the "quiet room" group. Dr Scholey said working memo...

Ethnic discrepancy in ovarian cancer

... So it is perhaps unsurprising that the survival rate among African American women is lower. They survive, on average, for 22 months after diagnosis, while the survival time for Caucasian women is 32 months. Obviously ovarian cancer is life-threatening for any woman - but it's a big concern when it's mo...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

... power devices actually improve the recanalization rate of clot-busting drugs. The temptation, he said, will be to use more powerful devices "and that's where safety becomes an issue." He noted researchers in Germany and in Oregon tried putting ultrasound clot-busting probes on catheters that were guided...

Drug Offers Hope for Alzheimer's disease

...tine deteriorated mentally at a considerably lower rate than patients who received placebo. While some are calling it a significant advance in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, others remain much more cautious about the drug's potential and how it's benefits could be misinterpreted. Forrest Pharmace...

Hyperactivity Drug Can Be Added to Food

...s and there were no significant differences in the rate at which the drug was absorbed or eliminated over the course of one day. Swallowing the capsule or sprinkling the contents over food was found to be equally safe and well tolerated. Side effects, such as headaches, were mild, the report indicates. H...

Skin cancer on the rise

...ater sports might also be to blame. The survival rate for the disease is also worse among men than women over a five-year period. However survival rates from skin cancers are good if it the condition is caught early.Cancer experts say women have previously had higher rates of malignant skin cancer, prob...

Vegetables decrease Tobacco Toxins

...erous vegetable intake was associated with a lower rate of smoking-related cancers. According to her, this study suggests that just normal dietary levels can reduce the levels of tobacco-related toxins. The study included 160 disease-free smokers aged 16 to 58; half were women and 40 percent were Africa...

Liver transplant oversight urged

...om dead donors. According to doctors, the survival rate of recipients is close to 80 percent for both proc...assachusetts General Hospital, estimated the death rate for such donors at 1 percent - far higher than for kidney donors. ``It is still not clear exactly ho...

Fish Oil Fights Arrhythmias, Sudden Death

... The new analysis reveals that the lower mortality rate for the n-3 PUFA patients, compared with patients who got a placebo, resulted largely from a 55% reduction in sudden cardiac deaths at 4 months follow-up. The analysis also shows that the lifesaving benefit of n-3 PUFA is likely due to reducing episo...

One IV treatment a year rather than a pill a day

...eps from the bones. The drug was found to slow the rate of bone less and increase bone density, and the effect persisted for at least a year after treatment, long after the medication had disappeared from the blood.// It will be about five years before doctors know whether the drug really does prevent fr...

Young women prone to heart attack

...age has an important effect on long-term mortality rate after myocardial infarction (heart attack)", the authors said. Cardiovascular disease kills more women than all cancers. The early warning signs of heart attack can vary greatly, experts say. While these include such classic symptoms as chest pain, ...

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