mortality 2 5

Tag: "mortality" at biology news

A surprise about our body clock

...ovascular diseases are the most important cause of mortality in Canada and the western world," said Dr. Ren-Ke Li, scientist at the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Toronto. "Each year, 70,000 Canadians suffer from a heart attack and many of t...

US infant mortality rate fails to improve

...fore their first birthday, according to new infant mortality statistics for 2003 released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The infant mortality rates showed no significant improvement in 2003 after increasing in 2002 for the first time since 19...

Incidence of stroke decreases over last 50 years

...he severity of stroke has not decreased and 30-day mortality has decreased significantly only in men, perhaps d... to reduce the lifetime risk, severity, and 30-day mortality following stroke," the authors conclude. ...

Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill

...in humans may account for as much as 10 percent of mortality in the United States. "It is thought that the gut is the source of bacteria for a large portion of cases of human septicemia, so if this mechanism is shared by Bt and toxins produced by human pathogens, the implications could be far greater in medi...

Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million

...n that pandemic, and they know even less about how mortality rates varied in different parts of the world. In f...tries around the world to estimate both the global mortality patterns of the 1918 pandemic and, based on 2004 population data, how a similar pandemic would affec...

Long-term cancer risk follows stem cell transplant recipients

...ce of cure for a disease that otherwise has a high mortality rate with non-transplant therapies. While the procedure can be lifesaving, it is associated with serious short-term adverse effects, such as mucostitis, infections, and liver vascular obstruction as well as the potential long-term complication of dev...

More kidney cancer is detected and treated early, yet death rate rises

...small tumors, we would expect to see a decrease in mortality associated with kidney cancer," says senior author...is not leading to a reduction in the kidney cancer mortality rate." The study ?published in the Sept. 20 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute ...

High HPV concentrations combined with smoking significantly raise risks of cervical cancer

...eloping countries. Although rates of incidence and mortality have dropped by 50 percent in the past 20 years, o...e. Early diagnosis and treatments have helped curb mortality rates, but the disease still remains one of the world's deadliest. In addition, it remains more comm...

Researchers discover key mechanism by which lethal viruses Ebola and Marburg cause disease

...ecause they are associated with high morbidity and mortality (up to 80% mortality rates) and the potential for rapid dissemination through human-to-human transmission. The term "vira...

Pattern of human Ebola outbreaks linked to wildlife and climate

...bola infection. In addition, 16 reported wildlife mortality incidents coincided with known Ebola epidemics. "The transmission of Ebola within animal populations is much more widespread than previously believed," explained Lahm. "Ebola appears to spread both within species and between different species ...

Plant-derived molecules, genetic manipulation point to future chemoprevention methods

...eaths in the United States," said Liby. "Since the mortality from this disease is significant, and prognoses are poor once a patient has been diagnosed, prevention may provide the only avenues to combat this particular cancer. We think this study shows a promising role for triterpenoids and the drug LG100268 i...

Rising ocean temperatures, pollution have oysters in hot water

...to cadmium at lower temperatures showed much lower mortality rate, suggesting that the combination of high temperature and cadmium is more stressful than each of these conditions alone, she said. The study "Temperature tolerance in the oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is affected by cadmium," was carried out...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...s, the “smoking gun?in this instance is accidental mortality in fishing gear, something popularly known as “bycatch? Large-, medium- and small-mesh gillnets set for fish and shrimp entangle and kill vaquitas far too frequently. The best available quantitative estimate of bycatch refers to only one of the th...

Using nature's most primitive anti-viral defense system to find new approaches to cancer research

...d of cancer cells around the body) is the cause of mortality in the majority of human cancers and it is a complex, multi-step process. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie each stage is therefore an important goal for cancer scientists. Dr Baum's research builds on his earlier work when, in col...

Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas

...hen used transect surveys to show that 95% gorilla mortality rates extended over a much larger area of several ...es. Chimpanzees were also heavily affected, with a mortality rate of 77%. Lossi was just one in a series of large gorilla and chimpanzee die-offs caused by Ebol...

Researchers develop technologies to devour food pathogens

...use of food-borne illness. The pathogen has a high mortality rate-one in five-and kills about 500 people each year. E. coli, which has the second highest mortality rate, kills less than 1 percent of those infected. "This is a really exciting technology," Bhunia ...

Chronic jet-lag conditions hasten death in aged mice

...led to examine a possible link between jet lag and mortality by something they had noticed in an earlier, unrel.... In the new work, the researchers examined the mortality link in earnest by looking at how young mice and old mice fared when subjected to two different type...

Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows

...le salmon migrating past fish farms, and conducted mortality experiments with more than 3,000 fish," said Krkos...e best case scenario of an additional ten per cent mortality from farm-origin sea lice could push a fish stock into the red zone," said biologist Dr. John Volpe,...

New study aims to stop sepsis in its tracks

... to detect any long-term differences in health and mortality rates. The scientists will also measure blood levels of certain factors that are thought to cause severe sepsis. By examining how these levels change over time and with the different interventions, the scientists will discover whether the factors c...

Proteins may predict lung transplant rejection

...curred. Lung transplant patients have the highest mortality rate of organ recipients, about 45% over five years, said lead investigator and pulmonologist Chris Wendt. Currently, there is no reliable way to predict which transplants will fail, and when signs of chronic rejection appear, it is usually too late ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7