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Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...The authors assessed multiple strategies to reduce mortality as well as greenhouse gas emissions from household fuel sources. They gathered a large database of current fuel use in African nations. Using this as a baseline, they defined multiple scenarios for future fuel use by varying the mix of wood, charcoal...

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

... young children, including a drop of 92 percent in mortality from chickenpox in children four years and younger. Despite its successes, the U.S. vaccine system is fragile and needs significant improvements, the authors report. Since 2000, vaccines against nine of the twelve vaccine-preventable diseases of chi...

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk

...for those receiving nitroglycerin. The increase in mortality persisted even after adjustment for the patients' ...t attack while in the hospital. "This increase in mortality was present in every subgroup of patients we studied," Meine said. "What we found interesting was th...

Study Finds Moderate Hypothermia A Safe Treatment For Traumatic Brain Injury In Kids

...in decreasing temperature. In addition to safety, mortality and complications during the treatment protocol and during hospitalization, the study also assessed functional and cognitive outcome in these children with severe traumatic brain injury. After severe TBI, 48 children less than 13 years of age admitt...

New defibrillator signals doctor of patient's irregular heartbeat or device malfunction

...death following heart attacks. Studies have shown mortality is lower in ICD-treated patients. "The new ICD provides faster delivery of care to patients and also reduces the number of times a patient has to go to the doctor's office for follow-up visits," said Varma, who specializes in treatment of ar...

FSU scientist warns North Atlantic right whale facing extinction

...tic right whale's future looks grim if the current mortality rates continue, according to Florida State Univers... entangled in fishing gear. Only 17 percent of all mortality is detected, so reports of dead whales represent only a small fraction of actual deaths. "Recent in...

Scientists to mimic nature for newest cancer drugs

...tic right whale's future looks grim if the current mortality rates continue, according to Florida State Univers... entangled in fishing gear. Only 17 percent of all mortality is detected, so reports of dead whales represent only a small fraction of actual deaths. "Recent in...

Men Estimate Men's Risks Of Common Disorders Higher Than Women Do, And Vice Versa

...le disease' even though it is the leading cause of mortality amongst women in the UK. (One study found that 30 year old women with chest pain were much less likely than 30 year old men to be given a cardiac diagnosis, much more likely to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, and around seven times more likely to b...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

... reefs in the Caribbean." The report shows infant mortality in drylands in developing countries averages about 54 children per 1,000 live births, 10 times that of industrial countries. Importantly, the rate in such drylands is twice as high as that of other, non-dryland regions in developing countries. The a...

Micro-molecule plays big role in birth defects

...formed yet. Now we can bypass the problem of early mortality and study the structures as they develop. It's a new tool for the genetic researcher's toolbox." No more than five years ago, microRNAs were considered to be little more than light seasoning in the genetic soup, distant and unnecessary cousins to th...

Biased reporting found in cancer prognostic studies

...that investigated the association between TP53 and mortality or survival rates. They collected three levels of ...ation between TP53 status and head and neck cancer mortality weakened as they expanded their analyses from the 18 published and indexed studies alone to include ...

Expanding forests darken the outlook for butterflies, study shows

...ds a species to be more vulnerable to a variety of mortality factors that lower survival rates," Roland explained. "This has been demonstrated for other species of butterflies." Only a few species of butterflies are threatened in the Canadian Rockies, but many more are threatened in Europe, where the problem ...

Survival of heart patients on beta-blockers varies greatly with genetic variation

...9 or 46 on both chromosomes had only a six percent mortality rate and were termed low-risk. Patients with any other combination of beta-2 gene variations had an overall 11 percent risk of death after three years and were classified as an intermediate-risk group. "Our study makes it clear how powerful genetic...

Naturally occurring asbestos linked to lung cancer

...is responsible for collecting cancer incidence and mortality statistics for more than one tenth of the United States population. An estimated 98.9 percent of all mesothelioma cases diagnosed in California are reported to the registry. The registry's size enabled researchers to identify an association that mig...

Studies clarify risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus

... HCV rates in female newborns may be due to excess mortality in infected males in utero. "Overall, the observation of higher hepatitis C virus infection rates in female infants is in accord with recent observations of similar excesses in HIV infection of female infants," Dr. Beasley said. ...

Volunteers sought for avian flu vaccine study

...the strain of the influenza virus has shown a high mortality rate - approximately 72 percent - with many fatalities among previously healthy young people. The vaccine researchers are testing was made by Sanofi Pasteur from an inactivated H5N1 avian flu virus isolated last year. "It's similar to the concept ...

On a wing and a prayer - Alaska researchers seek clues to bird flu

...p the species barrier and cause severe disease and mortality in humans. A second and even greater concern, according to the World Health Organization, is the possibility that the present situation could give rise to an influenza pandemic in humans akin to the 1918 "Spanish Flu." On Friday, WHO warned that Chin...

New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection

...urged support for global efforts to reduce measles mortality through immunization programs. Despite recent reductions in the worldwide toll of measles, he noted, the disease still accounts for almost half of the 1.6 million annual childhood deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases. ...

Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic

...gins found that the areas that suffered the lowest mortality rates included Bethlehem, which benefited from the resources provided by the then-prosperous Bethlehem Steel. "At the time, Bethlehem Steel produced more munitions than Great Britain and France combined, and the plant could not afford to shut down...

New classification of eukaryotes has implications for AIDS treatment, agriculture and beyond

...1) Pneumocystis, an opportunistic pathogen causing mortality in AIDS patients and immunocompromised individuals, is now known to be a fungus, indicating a different treatment regimen is needed. 2) Phytophtora, an organism causing potato blight, such as the one that caused the Irish famine in the 19th century, ...

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