Hormonal treatment improves survival in high-risk prostate cancer patients
...ion patients. Finally, the prostate cancer-related death rate was 16 percent for adjuvant and 22 percent for the observation arm. "The results of the study firmly establish the role of adjuvant hormonal management in high-risk carcinoma of the prostate treated with definitive radiotherapy," said Miljenko V...Mouse model reveals potential way to reduce cardiac deaths in kidney patients
...ew possibilities for treating the primary cause of death in kidney disease patients. Researchers tracked a chain reaction that leads from kidney damage to weakening of the skeleton to increased phosphorous in the blood. They showed that higher phosphorous levels were directly linked to vascular calcificati...Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
...aths per year than the next five leading causes of death combined. "It's possible that modifying the inflammatory proteins through medication could also lower the risk of heart disease," said Barbara Nicklas, Ph.D., senior researcher and an associate professor of internal medicine. "The findings point to a...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...pture and produce a heart attack or sudden cardiac death will be crucial to innovative preventive therapies." Plaques are deposits of fats, cholesterol and other materials that collect in major arteries, restricting or sometimes blocking blood flow. While some plaques are relatively stable, others are vu...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
...ter risk for chronic heart failure, sudden cardiac death or another, potentially fatal, heart attack. "This is an important milestone on the journey to better cardiovascular care and to realization of the promise of adult stem cell research," says lead study investigator and cardiologist Joshua Hare, M.D.,...Hospital acquired infections present major problem for infants in developing countries
...e developing world at great risk of infections and death soon after birth. Anita Zaidi (Aga Khan University, Pakistan) and colleagues reviewed data from developing countries on rates of neonatal infections among hospital-born babies. They found that bacteria such as Klebsiella pneumoniae and Staphylococcu...Billions in cost estimated for firefighter injuries
Firefighters face a high chance of injury or death whether on the scene of a fire, on the way to a fire or even during training--with an estimated 81,000 injuries and 100 deaths in 2002 alone. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a study* that estimates the cost...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...rence." Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women in the United States, killing more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). ACS estimates that in 2005 there will be approximately 172,570 new cases of lung cancer ...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...the single most important determinant of childhood death which has to be poverty. Childhood mortality is strongly inversely correlated with per-capita health expenditure. In today's world, an Ethiopian child is over 30 times more likely than a western European to die before his or her fifth birthday."...NHS target driven culture is failing patients
...ted care of an elderly woman at his hospital whose death from kidney failure (super-imposed on a malignancy) could have been avoided. "The hospital care was spread across three sites, delivered by six teams and by numerous members of within each team, while the information passed to her GP was patchy," he...Study provides new estimates of the causes of child mortality worldwide
...e most accurate estimates to date of the causes of death of children under age 5. The estimates, which are published in the March 26 edition of The Lancet, will help guide public health policies and programs that address child mortality worldwide. According to the study, four communicable disease categorie...NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
...ncies. PLBW is the second leading cause of infant death in general, and the major cause of infant mortality among African-American infants. Using bacterial samples of 297 predominantly African-American women in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Dasanayake's team examined the effect of cariogenic and other bacte...Cardiac deaths peak in sleep hours for patients with sleep apnea
...l population are at their low point. "The cardiac death peak for the general population comes just after w...Gami, M.D., lead author of the study, examined the death certificates of 112 Minnesota residents who had sleep studies at the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorder Cent...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...fuse to support such efforts and instead write off death and illness as "just deserts" for illegal behavior...te person wants to consign people unnecessarily to death or a living hell. Fortunately, providing IDUs with access to sterile syringes allows us to be respon...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
... older than 50. "Violence was the major cause of death in Muhajiria (72 percent), with all but one of the 25 violent deaths in men." "The prevalence of acute malnutrition was high, particularly in Kalma where nearly 24 percent of children younger than 5 years were affected. Reported measles vaccination...UW research shows risk factors for relapse among health care professionals who abuse drugs
...th care professionals after surveying the cause of death among physicians and noting that anesthesiologists, who can easily obtain potent pain-killers, were more likely to die from drug use, compared to internal medicine physicians. "State physician health programs may want to consider ways of treating su...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...ive pulmonary disease, the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, by allowing doctors to see which parts of the lungs are affected. Hersman has secured FDA approval to test polarized xenon with MRI in humans. The testing is scheduled for later this year with Sam Patz, a collaborator at Brigham...Abuse and HIV status linked to suicide risk
..."Given that suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for women ages 15-44, there is a need for further research on risk and opportunities for prevention," said Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM, lead author of the study and deputy director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Bloomberg School o...Why asthma sufferers struggle with the common cold
...ked, as IFN-beta was recently shown to induce cell death in virus-infected cells. How might this enhanced viral replication lead to asthma? The authors show that the cells from asthma sufferers, although unable to produce IFN-beta, could still secrete pro-inflammatory molecules, that can recruit asthma-i...TB Alliance announces new drug discovery program with GlaxoSmithKline
...he four first-line drugs. TB is a leading cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS, but simultaneous TB-HIV treatment is complicated by drug-drug interactions between some anti-HIV and existing TB drugs. The TB Alliance has united leading researchers, industry actors, and public health advocates ...