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In recent years, healthy people have been bombarded by stories in the media and on health websites warning about the dangers of too-low vitamin D levels, and urging high doses of supplements to protect against everything from hypertension to hardening of the arteries to diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-vitamin-d.html Health Wed, 01 May 2013 17:05:47 EST news286646738 A study presented today at the International Liver Congress 2013 – which evaluated the relationship between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), early predictors of atherosclerosis and the 10-year Framingham risk score (FRS) – showed that NAFLD increases the risk of early atherosclerotic lesions independent of established cardiovascular (CV) risk factors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-nafld-early-atherosclerotic-lesions.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:57:50 EST news286175389 High blood levels of the serum C-peptide are linked to heart disease and death in people without diabetes, according to a large study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-c-peptide-linked-death-heart-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00:10 EST news285240034 Lung cancer is likely to overtake breast cancer as the main cause of cancer death among European women by the middle of this decade, according to new research published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology. In the UK and Poland it has already overtaken breast cancer as the main cause of cancer deaths in women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-lung-cancer-breast-main-deaths.html Cancer Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:50:01 EST news279912387 (HealthDay)—Signing death certificates is not always straightforward and has long-term ramifications on mortality data and funding, according to a report published by the American Medical Association (AMA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-ama-death-certificates.html Health Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:40:02 EST news278688595 Jan. 17, 2013–As of 2009, the overall death rate for cancer in the United States had declined 20 percent from its peak in 1991, translating to the avoidance of approximately 1.2 million deaths from cancer, 152,900 of these in 2009 alone. These figures come from the American Cancer Society's annual Cancer Statistics report, one of the most widely-cited medical publications in the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cancer-mortality-percent-peak.html Cancer Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:49:09 EST news277642142 (HealthDay)—Socioeconomic status, as measured by education and financial wealth, is a strong independent predictor of mortality risk among adult diabetes patients, according to a study published in the January issue of Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-wealth-impact-mortality-diabetes-patients.html Diabetes Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:30:32 EST news277565423 New research indicates an increase in the number of US deaths and hospitalizations related to pulmonary hypertension. A research team from Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, examined multiple cause of death mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System and hospital discharge data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey for 1999-2009. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pulmonary-hypertension-deaths-hospitalizations.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:48:32 EST news270096193 Suicide rates in Canada are increasing for girls but decreasing for boys, with suffocation now the most common method for both sexes, according to an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-suicide-canada-girls-aged-.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:03 EST news252584597 Two-year data show comparable death and durability for catheter-placed heart valves and open-heart surgery in very old and ill patients, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session. The Scientific Session, the premier cardiovascular medical meeting, brings cardiovascular professionals together to further advances in the field. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-catheter-placed-heart-valve-strong-years.html Cardiology Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:39:56 EST news251980789 Prevention is better than cure; however, when it comes to screening for cancer new research shows that U.S. health services are not as cost-effective as international, and publically run, counterparts. The research, published in The Milbank Quarterly, compares U.S. screening services to screening in the Netherlands and found that while three to four times more screening took place in the United States, the rates of mortality were similar. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-effective-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:06:19 EST news251456769 The death rate from heart attack in England has halved in the last decade, claims a research paper published today in the British Medical Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-deaths-heart-halved-decade.html Cardiology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:50:03 EST news246774192 The American Cancer Society's annual cancer statistics report shows that between 2004 and 2008, overall cancer incidence rates declined by 0.6% per year in men and were stable in women, while cancer death rates decreased by 1.8% per year in men and by 1.6% per year in women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-american-cancer-society-mortality.html Cancer Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:36:01 EST news244906508 Around 4,000 deaths could be prevented every year if the UK population adopted the average diet eaten in England, concludes research published in BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-thousands-rest-uk-average-diet.html Health Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:20:29 EST news239516419 UK doctors are willing to cite alcohol as a cause of death on death certificates, but not smoking, for fear of stigmatising the deceased, shows research published online in the Journal of Clinical Pathology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-doctors-happily-cite-alcohol-death.html Addiction Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:16:15 EST news238734964 (Medical Xpress) -- Boys are maturing physically earlier than ever before. The age of sexual maturity has been decreasing by about 2.5 months each decade at least since the middle of the 18th century. Joshua Goldstein, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock (MPIDR), has used mortality data to prove this trend, which until now was difficult to decipher. What had already been established for girls now seems to also be true for boys: the time period during which young people are sexually mature but socially not yet considered adults is expanding. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-boys-sexual-maturity-younger.html Health Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:44:51 EST news232879467 The number of cases of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has continued to rise significantly in the first decade of the 21st century and could lead to more deaths than ovarian cancer, lymphoma, leukaemia, or kidney cancer, reveals research published ahead of print in the Thorax journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-ipf-lung-disease-quickly-significant.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:10:51 EST news223182615