Heart Health Conference to promote heart plan for Europe
...olitical problem, since more than 40% of Europeans die of coronary artery disease, stroke and other cardiovascular conditions. I am happy that the ESC can address this problem together with politicians." The EC notes the threatening disease burden caused by CVD and notes its preventable nature and major ...Benefits of nitric oxide vary in preemies, Stanford/Packard researchers say
...r rate of brain hemorrhage and were more likely to die than those who had received the placebo - 43 percent vs. 33 percent and 62 percent vs. 48 percent, respectively. However, those infants who weighed more than 1,000 grams reaped significant benefit from the nitric oxide treatment, which decreased the ...Cedars-Sinai's live donor liver transplant program receives 'unos-approved' designation
...ansplantation, you're dealing with people who will die without surgery. The only way to make that worse would be to add a complication in a living donor. Therefore, from the beginning we carefully planned all aspects of the living donor program, including the involvement of social workers, psychiatrists,...Specific regions of brain implicated in anorexia nervosa, finds Univ. of Pittsburgh study
...ts about 1 percent of American women, some of whom die from complications of the disease. The research may point to a molecular target for development of more effective treatments than those currently available. The study is the first to use positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to assess the activi...Majority of ALS patients are not depressed
...re not more likely to be depressed if they want to die or hasten their own death. Two new studies, publis...in providing care. Those who expressed the wish to die or to hasten their death were not more likely to be depressed, if their answers to questions about f...Low heart rate variability in depressed patients contributes to high mortality after heart attack
...ssed patients were nearly three times as likely to die during the study period as comparable, non-depress...'t know why depressed patients were more likely to die and whether heart rate variability had anything to do with the risk," Carney says. "This study shows...Estrogen, estrogen-like drugs' ability to protect brain after stroke under study
How brain cells die after a stroke and whether estrogen or estrogen-li...oke called the penumbra, where cells might live or die in the hours and weeks following a stroke. "It's a very complex issue because what you have in a str...SCAI news: Drug-eluting stents prove mettle in heart attack patients
... (81 percent versus 94 percent) and more likely to die while still in the hospital (21 percent versus 8 percent). In addition, after five years, only 56 percent of the vein grafts were still open. After 10 years, fewer than half of vein-graft patients were still alive, as compared to 76 percent of patien...Despite conflicting studies on obesity, most Americans think the problem remains serious
...ies about obesity including whether more Americans die each year from the effects of obesity than from th...e who are moderately overweight are more likely to die prematurely or develop a serious chronic illness than those who are at the recommended weight. Fort...Handwashing with soap key to reducing burden of childhood disease
...e than 3.5 million children aged less than 5 years die from diarrhoea and acute lower respiratory tract infection, making these two clinical syndromes the largest cause of childhood deaths globally. Stephen Luby (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA) and colleagues did a rand...Are some medicines so good they should be free? In diabetes, the answer may be yes
...iabetes; around 60 percent of people with diabetes die of a cardiovascular problem. "There are many drugs that are effective, but few that are this dramatically effective," says Vijan. "Our analyses suggest that co-payments for ACE inhibitors may actually cost Medicare and other insurers more money by p...Diabetes drug controls blood glucose, cardiac risk
...isk factors. Two out of three people with diabetes die from heart disease and stroke, according to the American Diabetes Association. "Diabetes management is more than control of blood glucose," advises the American Diabetes Association. "People with diabetes must also manage blood pressure and cholester...Statins protect from death from pneumonia
...hey entered hospital were 2.8 times less likely to die than patients who were not on statins. "Prior outpatient statin use was associated with decreased mortality in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia despite their use being associated with comorbid illnesses likely to contribute t...Low colon cancer screening rates leaves a million New Yorkers at risk
...mokers. More than 56,000 Americans are expected to die this year from colorectal cancer, making it the third leading cause of cancer death in both men and women. Screening tests, which include the fecal occult blood test (FOBT), flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS), and colonoscopy, have been proven to reduce mor...Hopkins researchers identify risk factors for prediction of lethal prostate cancer after recurrence
... recurring cancer after surgery are most likely to die from their renewed disease and would benefit from further treatment. "We identified three risk factors associated with death from prostate cancer after recurrence that may allow doctors to distinguish early on between those who need further treatmen...Anti-inflammatory function of Alzheimer's disease drugs revealed
...etylcholine-producing cells are among the first to die in Alzheimer's Disease patients, drug-induced elevation of acetylcholine levels partially attenuates the cognitive deterioration. In recent years it has been shown that another pathological process that occurs in the brain of Alzheimer's Disease pat...Anti-tumor activity also plays a critical role during eye development in the embryo
... of eye development, after which the blood vessels die and the network disappears. When this network persists--as it does in the absence of Arf--it disrupts the ability of the developing eye to grow to its normal size--a disease called persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous. Children with this conditio...Few benefits, many costs associated with changing definition of 'abnormal' PSA level
... next 10 years, relatively few men are expected to die from prostate cancer--0.3% of men aged 50-59, and 0.9% of men aged 60-69. The authors note that no studies to date have focused on the actual effectiveness of PSA screening in terms of cancer mortality and survival rates, so setting a PSA threshold ...LSUHSC innovation in patient safety training to improve surgical outcomes
...hat revealed that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations which has long focused efforts to improve patient safety, joined other organizations such as the Am...New research offers clues to prevent brain damage in premature babies
...year in the United States. Premature babies often die or suffer lifelong consequences, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, chronic lung disease, blindness, and hearing loss. According to research conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 25 percent of extremely...