http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The risk of complications and early death after commonly performed abdominal surgical procedures appears to be higher among older adults, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Surgery. http://www.physorg.com/news180638808.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:00:01 EST news180638808 The current health care debate in the United States is complicated. Trade-offs between heath care expenditures, lifestyle choices and life expectancy have been suggested but seldom clearly demonstrated. The U.S. spends on average more than $45,000 per year on health care for every 80 year old, while the Europeans spend $12,000 for the same age group. U.S. octogenarians have a 20 percent less chance of dying than Europeans in the next year. But, more than 30 percent of the U.S. population is obese, compared to less than 10 percent of Europe's population. http://www.physorg.com/news176731282.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:02:19 EST news176731282 Contrary to what was previously assumed, overweight is not increasing the overall death rate in the German population. http://www.physorg.com/news174913883.html Medicine & Health Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:30:01 EST news174913883 (AP) -- Rapidly worsening breathing problems in the sickest swine flu patients in Mexico and Canada present a scary worst-case scenario and could foreshadow what U.S. doctors face as winter flu season sets in, new reports suggest. http://www.physorg.com/news174569212.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:40:15 EST news174569212 (AP) -- In 16 states and counting, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news173552763.html Medicine & Health Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:00:03 EST news173552763 A study published online today estimates nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002. http://www.physorg.com/news172424058.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:35:28 EST news172424058 Smoking still kills more men than women, because men started smoking substantial numbers of cigarettes long before women did. http://www.physorg.com/news170938427.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:10:01 EST news170938427 (PhysOrg.com) -- More than half of all deaths of people of working age in Russia are caused by alcohol, according to research by Oxford University and the Russian Cancer Research Centre in Moscow. The results of the case-control study are published in The Lancet. http://www.physorg.com/news165240883.html Medicine & Health Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:20:01 EST news165240883 (AP) -- The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, earlier detection and better treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news162626646.html Medicine & Health Wed, 27 May 2009 07:04:44 EST news162626646 (AP) -- Mexico's health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation's swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous killer virus - and no experts are close to saying that. The secretary's comment reflects how much remains unknown about the new flu virus - most notably how lethal it is and why it seems so much deadlier in Mexico than anywhere else. http://www.physorg.com/news160275894.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:05:32 EST news160275894 Blacks in the United States are more likely to require dialysis and develop end stage renal disease (ESRD) than whites, but they also live longer than whites once they reach later stages of kidney disease. A study of this phenomenon will appear in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). http://www.physorg.com/news159037530.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:06:21 EST news159037530 (PhysOrg.com) -- A study by the University of Glasgow and the Medical Research Council (MRC) has found that more than twice as many men die every year in Scotland from alcohol misuse than women. http://www.physorg.com/news154625622.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:36:45 EST news154625622 A well-off professional who smokes has a much lower survival rate than a non-smoking low-paid worker of the same sex concludes new research published today on bmj.com. http://www.physorg.com/news154122231.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:44:24 EST news154122231 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates tree deaths in the West's old-growth forests have more than doubled in recent decades, likely from regional warming and related drought conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news151856202.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:17:18 EST news151856202 The association between tobacco smoke and cancer deaths - beyond lung cancer deaths - has been strengthened by a recent study from a UC Davis researcher, suggesting that increased tobacco control efforts could save more lives than previously estimated. http://www.physorg.com/news151770432.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:30:40 EST news151770432 As many as one million working-age men died due to the economic shock of mass privatisation policies followed by post-communist countries in the 1990s, according to a new study published in The Lancet. http://www.physorg.com/news151254022.html Medicine & Health Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:00:22 EST news151254022 A new report from the nation's leading cancer organizations shows that, for the first time since the report was first issued in 1998, both incidence and death rates for all cancers combined are decreasing for both men and women, driven largely by declines in some of the most common types of cancer. The report notes that, although the decreases in overall cancer incidence and death rates are encouraging, large state and regional differences in lung cancer trends among women underscore the need to strengthen many state tobacco control programs. The findings come from the "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use and Tobacco Control", online Nov. 25, 2008, and appearing in the Dec. 2, 2008, Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news146849658.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:34:18 EST news146849658 A new UCLA School of Nursing study is the first to reveal the devastating consequences of smoking on the nursing profession. Published in the November -December edition of the journal Nursing Research, the findings describe smoking trends and death rates among U.S. nurses and emphasize the importance of supporting smoking cessation programs in the nursing field. http://www.physorg.com/news145800798.html Medicine & Health Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:13:18 EST news145800798 A new American Cancer Society study finds that recent progress in closing the gap in overall cancer mortality between African Americans and whites may be due primarily to smoking-related cancers, and that cancer mortality differences related to screening and treatment may still be increasing. The study, appearing in the November issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, is the first to analyze racial and ethnic differences between the two broad categories of disease. http://www.physorg.com/news145182323.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:25:23 EST news145182323 African American and Hispanic patients are more likely to die following trauma than white patients, and uninsured patients have a higher death risk when compared with those who have health insurance, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news143740898.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:01:38 EST news143740898 A new American Cancer Society study sheds light on the ten to fifteen percent of lung cancers that are caused by factors other than tobacco smoking. The study analyzed data on lung cancer occurrence among lifelong nonsmokers in North America, Europe, and Asia and found that lung cancer death rates among never-smokers are highest among men, African Americans, and Asians residing in Asia. http://www.physorg.com/news140152346.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:12:26 EST news140152346 International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans were associated with a 16.6% rise in death rates from tuberculosis (TB) in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern European countries between 1992 and 2002, finds a study in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news135917494.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:51:34 EST news135917494