Fewer heart failure patients die when hospitals make efforts to improve care
...ALLAS -- Heart failure patients are less likely to die after they go home from the hospital if the hospital has participated in an organized quality improvement program, compared with patients treated at hospitals where such efforts aren't undertaken, a new study finds. They're also less likely to need a...Early results using therapeutic pancreatic cancer vaccine show promise
...Americans annually, and about the same number will die each year....US heart patients receive more transfusions than international patients
...t heart patients were more than twice as likely to die during their first 30 days of hospitalization if they receive a blood transfusion to treat blood loss or anemia. Additionally, such patients are more than three times as likely to suffer a heart attack within 30 days, when compared to those who did n...New data shows ACTOS reduced heart attacks by 28 percent in people with type 2 diabetes
...tes are more likely than those without diabetes to die from a heart attack and to have a second event," continued Dr. Spanheimer. "ACTOS is a type 2 diabetes medication that has now been shown to reduce the recurrence of heart attacks. Until we know how ACTOS works to provide this life-saving benefit, ...UC Davis researchers shed new light on how chemotherapy-induced leukemia develops
...that survive chemotherapy tocomplete apoptosis and die -- averting the development of leukemia."...Older women who receive pelvic irradiation for cancer have increased risk for pelvic fracture
... hip fracture, 10 percent to 20 percent more women die than expected for age. The number of deaths due to hip fractures is comparable with the number of deaths due to pancreatic cancer and is only slightly lower than the number of deaths due to breast cancer. It is well recognized that therapeutic radia...Children with HIV-infection benefit from zinc supplements
...ldren. Consequently, more than half these children die before the age of 3 years, most commonly of respiratory tract infections and diarrhoeal diseasesZinc supplementation could be a simple and cost-effective intervention to reduce morbidity and mortality in children with HIV-1 infectionProgrammes to enh......ty to cover health care workers who become sick or die as they place themselves in harm's way. The Human Costs of Restrictive Measures Officials need to provide support for those in quarantine, cut off from family, friends, work, shopping and possibly medical care for other aliments, the report says. T...Depressed heart patients skip medications, have elevated stress hormones
...eart attacks and heart failure, and more likely to die of heart disease, and no one knows why," notes Mary Whooley, MD, a staff physician at SFVAMC and the principal investigator of both studies. "These results give us two intriguing clues: one behavioral, one biological." One study looked at the associa...Radiation treatment prolonged liver cancer patients' lives, U-M study finds
...cer or bile duct cancer this year, and 15,420 will die from it, according to the American Cancer Society. Researchers are continuing to refine the treatment, using newer radiation techniques to deliver higher doses of radiation. Further studies are also looking at testing liver function during treatment ...U of MN study shows nicotine vaccine has promise for helping smokers quit
...e told that they have lung cancer and 160,000 will die from it. In Minnesota, more than 2,600 residents w...ung cancer this year, and nearly 2,500 people will die from it. Hatsukami conducted this study in collaboration with researchers at the University of Wisco...UQ scientists break new ground in fight against infection & chronic disease
...gers were among the agents that caused patients to die from acute infections like bird flu and to acquire chronic inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. They are also behind the muscle wasting experienced by patients with cancer. Chronic inflammatory disorders are a subs...Antibacterial coatings cut infection rates
...y don't start producing the biofilm and eventually die on the surface. "We attach the furanones by covalent bonding to our biomedical devices. We stress covalent bonding because it is important that we anchor them very firmly to the surface, making it impossible for them to break away and travel into rem...Coffee and tea can reduce the risk of chronic liver disease
...Center for Health Statistics, nearly 28,000 people die of chronic liver disease each year and there are more than 5 million prevalent cases of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis in the United States. Researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and Social & Scien...Global meeting identifies cost-effective approaches to cervical cancer prevention
...ted 470,000 new cases occur and over 230,000 women die annually from cervical cancer. Eighty percent of these deaths occur among women in the prime of their lives, busy with family and child-rearing, who live in the world's neediest countries....Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Dec. 6, 2005
...ad a stroke were almost three times more likely to die than those who did not have a stroke. Additional risk factors for stroke after heart attack were older age, a previous stroke, and having diabetes. The researchers say that "use of oral anticoagulation after acute MI remains controversial," but shou...Are US flu death figures more PR than science?
...he same time, CDC claims 36,000 Americans annually die from flu. What is going on, asks Doshi? The CDC uses indirect modelling methods to estimate the number of deaths associated with influenza. Thus the much publicised figure of 36,000 is not an estimate of yearly flu deaths, as widely reported in both...Scythe balances life and death during development
...alled Scythe determines which cells live and which die during the growth and development of the mammalian embryo, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The St. Jude study is the first to show that Scythe plays a critical role during development of mammals by selectively r...Growth factor protects brain against damage from stroke
...in is interrupted. Deprived of oxygen, brain cells die within minutes, causing inflammation and further damage to tissue surrounding the site where blood flow is obstructed. In the study, a research team led by Byron Ford, PhD, of the MSM Neuroscience Institute and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology ...Mayo clinic reports some chronic leukemia patients may improve by taking an extract of green tea
...while others need immediate chemotherapy, and some die within months despite therapy. Because the course of the CLL is so variable, physicians have historically adopted an attitude of watchful waiting with early-stage CLL patients. However, new tests, new medications and a better understanding of the d...