Research Australia unveils top 12 issues threatening our children's health
...behind that for all Australians, indigenous babies die at three times the rate of other Australians and c...rom low socioeconomic areas are twice as likely to die before their first birthday. 6. Child Abuse, Neglect and Domestic Violence with more victims being ...Aussie blokes dying for a health policy, say UWS men's health experts
...se to seek help from friendly health services, and die young." "This allows governments, bureaucracies an...ehaviour is the reason why they are more likely to die earlier from illnesses such as heart disease and lung cancer, and commit suicide and self-harm in gr...Older patients with acute coronary syndromes not getting recommended treatment
...ved more recommended therapies were less likely to die than those who did not. Dr. Alexander said that progress is being made toward providing recommended treatment to patients of all ages, but this study shows there is more work to be done. "Awareness of gaps is the first step in narrowing them. Further...Curcumin halts spread of breast cancer in mice
...ancer in 2005, and approximately 40,410 women will die from the disease this year....GlaxoSmithKline's Havrix now approved for use in children aged 12 months and older
...italized and up to 100 people with the disease may die each year in the U.S. Symptoms of the disease can be debilitating and include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, abdominal discomfort, jaundice and dark urine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hepatitis A incidence...New study reveals attempted suicide often a snap decision fuelled by drugs and alcohol
...ifferences between those who attempt and those who die by suicide. Suicide and attempted suicide all share intentional or deliberate self-harming characteristics, but differ in the outcome," she says. "These findings will contribute to the NSW Health framework for suicide risk assessment and management -...Antipsychotic drugs linked to increased risk of death for some elderly Alzheimer's patients
...sychotic medications were 1.5 times more likely to die than patients taking a placebo. "These results," said Rabins, "do not suggest that first-generation antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol and chlorpromazine, introduced in the 1950s, are safer alternatives to second-generation drugs." He said first-ge...Risk of death from bariatric surgery among Medicare patients higher than previously estimated
... among older men. Overall, men were more likely to die after bariatric surgery than women (3.7 percent vs. 1.5 percent, 4.8 percent vs. 2.1 percent, and 7.5 percent vs. 3.7 percent for men and women at 30 days, 90 days, and 1 year, respectively). Death rates were greater for those aged 65 years or older ...No single strategy effective to control antibiotic prescribing in hospitals
...extremely low that an ambulatory-care patient will die because they don't get the correct antibiotic. That chance is greater for a critical-care patient in a hospital," Gonzales said. Gonzales, who was not involved in the Cochrane review, has worked in the United States to craft guidelines for antibiotic...Annual prostate cancer screening test appears to save lives
...tigen levels are nearly three times less likely to die from prostate cancer than those who don't have annual screenings, according to a study presented October 19, 2005, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 47th Annual Meeting in Denver. The study shows that over an estimate...'A virtual Katrina' of deaths every week in US due to racial health gap
...torial in this week's BMJ. But because the victims die gradually from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, HIV, and from drug and alcohol abuse, the public are generally unaware of the scale of the fatalities. Hurricane Katrina has exposed US health inequalities, though these are not unique ...World's poorest children missing out on child survival strategies
...al interventions are low, and millions of children die every year from diseases for which there are effective interventions. Cesar Victora (Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil) and colleagues looked at whether interventions, such as vitamin A supplements, safe water and immunisations, reached mothers a...Be a control freak: Allergists outline new focus for asthmatics
... with asthma are hospitalized, and more than 4,000 die from disease-related causes....Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic
... the Board of Health, saw roughly 13,000 residents die as the flu swept through the inner city neighborhoods. It represented, Higgins said, the worst case scenario, with dead bodies piling up outside of police stations and others dumped into trench graves. "Obviously, not every city had the same ex...Innovate or perish? Helping developing countries fight neglected diseases
...40,000 people --enough to fill a sports stadium -- die from preventable infectious diseases and malnutrition. Entire generations of human potential are perishing. Given the scope of these challenges, is there a way for developing countries to solve health disparities and bootstrap these efforts into eco...Measuring certain enzyme activity in urine shows promise for detection of bladder cancer
... article. At present, about 20 percent of patients die each year, but when the disease is diagnosed and treated in the early stage, the chances of survival are good, indicating the importance of a timely and accurate diagnosis. Established approaches for detecting bladder cancer are either invasive and c...NSF grant to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia bridges academic research, child safety innovation
... six months or less, are nearly twice as likely to die in a crash as are other age groups. "Before the ... are more likely than those in other age groups to die in crashes. CChIPS researchers, working in cooperation with the University of Iowa, are studying yo...Diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix
...e 70 percent to 80 percent of people with diabetes die from coronary artery disease. Among the biological factors that might account for the link between depression and the heightened risk of heart attack or stroke are increases in the ability of platelet cells to clump together inside of blood vessels, ...Clinical trial in China to test whether early blood pressure reduction improves stroke outcomes
...rounding Asian countries, and about one third will die a few days after onset. Of those that survive, the majority will face major long-term disabilities. The George Institute's Professor Craig Anderson, who is the Principal Investigator in the trial, explained that "Chinese people appear to be at par...Characteristic cardiac scar pattern predicts risk of fatal arrhythmias
...not so effective for identifying the many who will die suddenly from arrhythmias." Indeed, while the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics estimates that more than 1 million Americans currently have a defibrillator, national studies published early this year have shown that only 5 percent of these d...