New national effort seeks a more rational organ allocation system for kidney transplants
...f patients who need liver transplants is that many die while on the waiting list for a donated liver. Wait-list mortality is less of an issue for kidney patients because their disease can be compensated for with dialysis. But kidney transplantation brings its own issues, which have given rise to the thre...Risk factors associated with elderly hospital deaths: Dependence on others and being too thin
...such as eating and bathing are at greatest risk to die in the hospital, new Saint Louis University resear...aily activities, the more likely the patient is to die in the hospital, researchers found. Thomas found that a declining body mass index and difficulties c...Studies suggest that donation criteria can be expanded
...and 40 years, weigh between 60 and 180 pounds, and die in the hospital from a head injury. Because of the strict criteria for pancreas donors, the pancreas is recovered in only 20 to 25 percent of organ donors nationally. Stratta's study defined extreme kidney-pancreas donors as those who were either old...Statins decrease risk of colon cancer
... the American Cancer Society, and some 56,000 will die from the disease. In addition to Gruber and Poynter, U-M study authors are Peter Higgins, M.D., Ph.D., lecturer in gastroenterology; Joel Greenson, M.D., assistant professor of pathology; and Joseph Bonner, a programmer analyst in internal medicine. ...Depression is common in patients after heart attack, new Johns Hopkins study shows
...m again within a year and three times as likely to die from a future attack or other heart-related conditions. "Although there is not much time to do a full psychiatric assessment of heart attack patients in the hospital, it is important to evaluate for depression because of the impact on the patient's q...Statins underprescribed to patients at higher risk of heart disease, Stanford study says
...isease. Each year, more than half a million people die from heart disease, making it the No. 1 killer among both men and women. Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and senior author of the study, said there are reliable methods of identify...Health professionals should quit being passive about smoking
...y 2030, it is expected that 10 million people will die annually from tobacco related diseases--a substantial proportion of these deaths will be from cancer. Peter Boyle (Director, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France) and colleagues from cancer organisations worldwide are calling for...Newly developed treatment for severe grief shown more effective than standard therapy
...bereaved persons. Approximately 2.5 million people die yearly in the United States. Estimates suggest each death leaves an average of 5 people bereaved, suggesting that more than 1 million people per year are expected to develop complicated grief in the United States. Given observations regarding the spe...Most heart failure cases are discovered after patients are admitted to hospital
...e hospital for another reason were more likely to die than were those diagnosed with primary CHF, incurr... $14,395.) These patients were twice as likely to die during their hospital stay 8 percent of the people with secondary CHF died, compared to 4.3 percent...ESC emphasizes underestimated effects of tobacco use
...ound the world use tobacco, and 4.9 million people die from tobacco use every year. Half of all current tobacco users will eventually die from tobacco-related illnesses. By 2030, the World Bank predicts that smoking will kill about one in...UC Davis Cancer Center awarded $4.5 million
...ns are more than five times as likely as whites to die of liver cancer, for example, and on an aggregate basis, Asian Pacific Islander women over age 40 have the lowest mammogram screening rates in the country. In some Asian groups, the incidence of cervical cancer is as much as five times that of whites...Oslo press event launches 46664 Arctic and spearheads a four-day spotlight on Africa
...ion people every year, among them the children who die at the rate of one every three seconds, there is evidence that increased political will and funding can put success within reach. This has been demonstrated through the work of public-private partnerships such as the GAVI, and through the efforts of ...Increased Vitamin B consumption reduces women's risk of colorectal cancer
...stimated that more than 28,000 women with CRC will die in 2005. While increased vitamin B6 consumption decreases the risk of colorectal cancer, it does not eliminate the need for regular screening. Guidelines of multiple agencies and professional societies underscore the importance of colorectal cancer...Doctor 'report cards' may keep some heart patients from getting angioplasties
...ients were twice as likely as New York patients to die in the hospital. But when the researchers correcte... angioplasty patient will suffer a complication or die before leaving the hospital. As the procedure has become more common and its benefits have been de...Control of TB epidemic requires more effective drugs, better tests, and focus on latent infection
...(TB) this year and more than 2 million expected to die from the disease, according to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis has become a global public health epidemic. In the U.S., although TB cases have declined since 1992, it remains a serious health problem in urban areas and among certain popu...Goals for TB control reachable for most of world
...sis (TB) each year and that several million people die from the disease, according to background information in the article. In response to this, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) set 2 targets for TB control: to detect 70 percent of new cases and to successfully treat 85 p...Chronic infection may contribute to frailty in older women
... to be hospitalized, fall, develop disability, and die than their peers. Thus, it is critical to understand what causes people to become frail and what potential treatments could decrease risk of poor outcomes in those who are frail, particularly with the aging population." While CMV is a common lifelong...Information on child illness and death lacking in poor countries
...issue of THE LANCET. Around 10.8 million children die worldwide each year. Credible global and national estimates of the burden of disease in childhood are essential for the development of appropriate health policy and implementation of health interventions to prevent these deaths. Harry Campbell (Univ...Mayo collaboration: Discovery blocks breast cancer growth, stimulates immunity
...ll be diagnosed with breast cancer and 43,300 will die from it. About Immunotherapy and IL-2 Immunotoxin Dr. Knutson is a specialist in the cutting-edge field of immunotherapy, and Mayo Clinic is a major immunotherapy research center ( http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/ciip/ ). Immunoth...UCSB professors among team awarded $13 million to mount nano-attack on plaque
... at least one type of cardiac disease, one million die each year, many without showing signs of disease. As much as 60% to 80% of these sudden cardiac deaths can be attributed to the physical rupture of "vulnerable" plaque, which is an inflammation embedded in the arterial wall. Vulnerable plaque, whic...