Most Canadian hospitals below recommended standards
...een's University conducted prior to last spring's deadly SARS outbreak in Toronto shows that as many as 80 per cent of hospitals across Canada fall seriously short in preventing patients from getting hospital infections. "This is a tragedy and very disturbing. The results clearly show that we need to be d...Fast-acting ebola vaccine protects monkeys
...ola vaccine successfully protects monkeys from the deadly virus after only one month. If this vaccine proves similarly effective in humans, it may one day allow scientists to quickly contain Ebola outbreaks with ring vaccination--the same strategy successfully used in the past against smallpox, according t...Fifteen football players died during 2002 season, none from heatstroke, study finds
...ight thing, now we understand that's a potentially deadly prescription for disaster. We have all the tools and knowledge to prevent heatstroke fatalities." Eight players died from heatstroke in 1970, the highest one-year total, he said. Before 1955, no heatstroke deaths were recorded among football players,...Increased prevalence of diabetes - not all bad news
...etes are indeed on the increase, a problem big and deadly enough to need no supporting rhetoric, but not all increases are sinister. Let us take some comfort from the hint that, in some populations at least, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes may have risen mainly because people are being picked up and treat...Promising West Nile virus vaccine protects monkeys
...y produces mild, flu-like symptoms but can cause a deadly encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain. The virus was first detected in the United States in 1999. Since then, it has spread rapidly from the northeastern United States throughout North America. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statisti...Mapping the air to safeguard your looks, the environment and planes in flight
...new tools, " said Buchmann. Diverting planes from deadly dust None of the 262 passengers and crew on that British Airways 747 will ever forget that night. Travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Perth in June 1982 the aircraft entered a cloud of volcanic dust from Mount Galunggung on Java, part of the Pacific 'Ri...Children with sickle cell anemia often don't receive antibiotics to prevent deadly infections
...of antibiotics that they need to protect them from deadly infections, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Washington. The study of children covered by Medicaid insurance in two states found that pharmacies only provided the children with a mean of 148 days a year of antibiotics, or ...High cost of life-saving childrens vaccine may be keeping some doctors from giving it
...cteria that cause tens of thousands of potentially deadly bacterial meningitis and bloodstream infections each year, and untold millions of painful ear infections. That's why parents have clamored to get kids vaccinated with Prevnar since its approval in the year 2000. New CDC data show that despite major s...Global patient organisation launched to help millions of patients with cancer
...ww.lymphomacoalition.org to learn more about this deadly disease. The Lymphoma Coalition annual meeting is currently held during the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting in December....Lotion made from tea could help fight skin cancer
...s will inhibit melanoma, the least common but most deadly type of skin cancer. More studies are needed, he adds. Dong also acknowledges that there may be other cancer-promoting pathways in the skin that are inhibited by tea but says further investigation is needed to determine that. Other researchers have p...Most physicians willing to serve but unready for bioterrorism
...to treat patients with an "unknown but potentially deadly illness," that fell to 40 percent when the question involved a risk of "contracting a deadly illness." It dropped to 33 percent when the virus was specified as smallpox and it was stipulated t...Another US airport travel hazard dirty hands
...ks of infectious diseases. Although illnesses as deadly as SARS and as troublesome as the common cold or gastric distress can be spread hand-to-hand, the survey sponsored by the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) found that many people passing through major US airports don't wash their hands after usi...New blood test could detect lung cancer in its earliest stages
DURHAM, N.C. -- Lung cancer is often deadly by the time doctors have detected it, but scientists at Duke University Medical Center are developing a non-invasive test that could detect lung cancer in its earliest stages, while it is still treatable. Their new diagnostic test employs an instrume...Uninsured face higher death risk from aorta problems
...rmation of a long-suspected effect: that there's a deadly downside to the delay in detection and treatment o...riple A's", an innocuous-sounding name for a truly deadly condition that kills nearly 16,000 people each year. Starting as a tiny bulge in the wall of the bod...Trojan Horse technique may slow growth of tumours
... wooden horse to fool the enemy, this drug enables deadly radioisotopes to hide within the EGF as it passes naturally into the breast cancer cells," says senior author Professor Raymond Reilly of the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Toronto General Hospital, University Health Netwo...In childhood leukemia study, aggressive chemotherapy cuts deaths by 37%
...an a third of children who die from a particularly deadly form of leukemia would be saved if doctors used three existing drugs more aggressively administering them at much higher doses and over a longer period of time. That is one of several important conclusions drawn from a long-term study, published in...New research links lung cancer screening to accelerated rates of smoking cessation
...cancer death among women in the United States, its deadly scope is oftentimes underestimated. A recent poll conducted by the American Legacy Foundation found that only 13 percent of the survey's respondents thought that lung cancer was the leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. Sm...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November 2003 (first issue)
...t to develop an optimal treatment strategy against deadly ventilator-associated pneumonia, researchers using decision analysis revealed that initial use of three antibiotics, followed by diagnostic testing, led to better patient survival, less antibiotic use, and lower cost. According to the authors, initi...Early promise of blood marker to detect mesothelioma
...e to identify people with mesothelioma-the usually deadly malignant tumor of mesothelial tissue surrounding the lungs, often caused by exposure to asbestos. Bruce Robinson from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia, and colleagues developed a test to assess blood concentrations of proteins expres...IU Medical School, Merck take shot at vaccinating Kenyan kids
... vaccinations to protect them from debilitating or deadly diseases. An ambitious venture of the Indiana University School of Medicine and pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. seeks to reverse that trend in Kenya, where the School has had a strong presence for more than a decade. The Merck Vaccine Network-Africa...