Post-ER care for chest pain reduces risk of heart attack, death
Seeing a doctor within a month of an emergency room visit for chest pain significantly reduced the risk of heart attack or death among high risk patients, according to research published the American Heart Association journal ...
Cardiology
Apr 01, 2013 |
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Health gap in Europe wider than ever
Life expectancy in Russia has marked time since the collapse of the Soviet Union but risen in its former eastern-bloc allies, The Lancet reported on Wednesday.
Health
Mar 26, 2013 |
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Poor kidney response to hormone may increase risks for kidney disease patients
The kidneys' response to a particular hormone may affect kidney disease patients' heart health and longevity, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 21, 2013 |
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How healthy is your county?
(HealthDay)—Rates of premature death in counties across the United States are the lowest in 20 years, but people in the least healthy counties are more than twice as likely to die early as those in the ...
Health
Mar 20, 2013 |
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Study finds people with learning disabilities are more likely to have a premature death compared with general population
A three-year study into the extent of premature death in people with learning disabilities has found that those with learning disabilities are more likely to have a premature death compared with individuals in the general ...
Health
Mar 20, 2013 |
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Nurse understaffing increases infection risk in VLBW babies
Very low birth weight infants, those weighing less than 3.25 pounds, account for half of infant deaths in the United States each year, yet a new study released in today's issue of JAMA Pediatrics documents that these critic ...
Pediatrics
Mar 18, 2013 |
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Fertilisers could help tackle nutritional deficiency in African country, researchers say
Enriching crops by adding a naturally-occurring soil mineral to fertilisers could potentially help to reduce disease and premature death in the African country of Malawi, researchers have said.
Health
Mar 12, 2013 |
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Study examines global management of anemia in children on dialysis
Children on dialysis who have anemia and who require high doses of drugs to treat it have an increased risk of dying prematurely, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 07, 2013 |
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Processed meat linked to premature death
In a huge study of half a million men and women, research in Biomed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine demonstrates an association between processed meat and cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Health
Mar 06, 2013 |
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Study shows declining life span for some US women
A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain.
Health
Mar 04, 2013 |
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EU releases 144 mn euro for new rare disease research
The European Union on Thursday pledged 144 million euros of fresh funding for research on rare diseases that currently affect some 30 million Europeans, the majority of them children.
Genetics
Feb 28, 2013 |
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Obesity and its consequences spreading rapidly around the world
Clogged arteries and sedentary lifestyles have replaced germs as the world's leading killers. Where hunger once held much of the world in its grip, the 1.6 billion overweight and obese now outnumber the malnourished by nearly ...
Health
Jan 29, 2013 |
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Kidney disease accounts for most of the increased risk of dying early among diabetics
One in every 10 Americans has diabetes, and a third or more of those with the condition will develop kidney disease. It may be possible to live a long and healthy life with diabetes, but once kidney disease develops, the ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 24, 2013 |
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Marriage linked to better survival in middle age
Could marriage, and associated companionship, be one key to a longer life? According to new research, not having a permanent partner, or spouse, during midlife is linked to a higher risk of premature death during those midlife ...
Health
Jan 10, 2013 |
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Despite success, demand low for hand transplants
A year after a young amputee left the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with transplanted hands and forearms, the lead surgeon calls her progress "nothing less than spectacular."
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Dec 17, 2012 |
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