Not working alone at night, outside lights can cut workplace homicides, study shows
... after motor vehicle crashes with an average of 20 fatal assaults on workers every week, said Dr. Dana Loomis, professor of epidemiology. We did our study to try to learn what steps can make a difference in reducing the toll. A report on the findings, the first of their kind, appears in the Feb. 27 issue ...Health and fitness facilities need defibrillators
...ular disease is rising as well. The number of fatal events at health clubs is unknown. However, in one large database of more than 2.9 million members of large commercial health club chains, 71 deaths were reported during a two-year period. In another survey of 65 randomly chosen facilities in Ohio...Patients who need cardiac resynchronization therapy may be eligible for Cedars-Sinai clinical trials
...brillator (ICD) has proven ability to detect these fatal rhythms and provide intervention in the form of a shock to restore normal rhythm. The ICD has demonstrated efficacy in reducing the incidence of death in patients with advanced congestive heart failure. We have been providing state-of-the-art defibri...Cocaine use associated with often fatal heart condition
Cocaine use can be associated with a potentially fatal condition called aortic dissection, according to U...e researchers. Aortic dissection is a potentially fatal condition and is not often the cause of chest pain. Therefore, its important for health care provid...Baldness induced by dopamine treatments may be reversible
...lness," said Di Rocco. Parkinson's disease is not fatal and the progression varies from person to person. For some, the disease can progress slowly over 20 or 30 years and for others, the progression is faster....Implantable heart device reduces deaths by one-third
...esia. The device detects irregular and potentially fatal heartbeats and shocks the heart back into a normal rhythm. Introduced about 20 years ago, ICDs had been prescribed only for a small group of patients who had survived a cardiac arrest. But after additional research and improvements to the device itse...Losartan could offer new cardiovascular benefit beyond blood-pressure control
... endpoint by 13%, cardiovascular death by 11%, and fatal or non-fatal stroke by 25%. The risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attack was marginally reduced (by 7%) in patients given atenolol. In a second st...Prolonged use of ramipril prevents stroke
...group compared with the placebo group. The risk of fatal stroke was reduced by 61% and significantly fewer patients on ramipril had mental or functional impairment. As stroke is the leading cause of disability in developed countries, even moderate decreases in disability would be of global importance, say ...Estrogen's role in preventing female cardiac disease
... of cardiac hypertrophy similar to the potentially fatal human condition, whereas similarly engineered female transgenic mice do not. o Unless, that is, the female mice are treated with a drug to block natural estrogen production. By being unable to produce estrogen, the female mice had the same kind of ...Aspirin resistance increases risk of death
...88 of these patients had a heart attack, stroke or fatal event. Another 488 aspirin-therapy patients who were age and gender matched and did not have an event during follow-up were used as controls. Patients were free to select aspirin doses ranging from 80mg to 325mg a day. When the researchers divided ...Fatty acid from fish oil fights arrhythmias, sudden death
...s in cholesterol levels or by reducing potentially fatal blood clotting. The new analysis reveals that the... is likely due to reducing episodes of potentially fatal irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias. About 250,000 people in the United States die each year f...Standards of medical care on adventure holidays raise concerns
...ckness while on holiday - a common and potentially fatal condition if not treated correctly. In both cases the group leaders had exceeded the recommended rates of ascent, and the people concerned were unaware of the severity of the risks of travel to high altitude, says the author. The public should be pro...Dutch study links tea drinking to reduced heart attack risk
...act of regular tea consumption on the incidence of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarctions (MIs) in a gro...s, and the association was particularly strong for fatal events. The 4,807 participants were part of the Rotterdam Study of Dutch adults ≥ 55 years ol...International Thiamine (Vitamin B-1) Conference at Rutgers Newark
... disease; maple syrup urine disease, a potentially fatal metabolic disorder; and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a disease affecting alchoholics. New technologies available to scientists around the world are having a significant effect on research, Jordan noted. With recent advances in X-ray crystallography a...New hope for treating or avoiding heart failure after cancer drugs
New hope that heart failure a potentially fatal side-effect of some types of cancer drugs can be diagnosed early and successfully treated or even prevented, is reported in Annals of Oncology, journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology. A team from the University of Milan* has found evi...Early promise of simple test for diagnosing malignant hyperthermia
...d test for identifying people at risk of the often fatal reaction to general anaesthetics, a syndrome known as malignant hyperthermia. Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a chain-reaction event triggered in susceptible individuals by commonly used general anesthetics. The signs of MH include a greatly increase...Case study highlights importance of early detection of testicular cancer
...ident. A post-mortem examination revealed that the fatal pulmonary embolism was a result of cancer that had spread from a testicular tumour, which had probably been present (but undetected by the man and his family doctor) for months. HD de Boer comments: Early recognition of testicular carcinoma is essent...Seat belts as effective in children as in adults
...elted adults were unbelted. The odds of sustaining fatal or moderately severe injury for children in the front passenger seat was more than nine times higher for unbelted children than for belted ones, and for those in the rear left seat was more than two times higher for unbelted than for belted children....New radioimmunotherapy drug proves highly effective for killing off B cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma
...oped specifically to fight this common but usually fatal cancer of the lymph glands that, for unknown reasons, is on the increase in the United States. About 56,000 people are diagnosed with this cancer annually. The randomized study involved 143 patients with B cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma who had previousl...