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. Married people in the United States are living longer these days, but the widowed are experiencing a higher mortality rate, according to new research by a Michigan State University sociologist. http://www.physorg.com/news178990448.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00:04 EST news178990448 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stroke is an important cause of childhood morbidity and is in the top ten causes of childhood death. For the first time, new research has looked at trends in death from childhood stroke in England and Wales, from 1921 to 2000. http://www.physorg.com/news178912468.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:00:01 EST news178912468 An international study that examined the extent of infections in nearly 1,300 intensive care units (ICUs) in 75 countries found that about 50 percent of the patients were considered infected, with infection associated with an increased risk of death in the hospital, according to a study in the December 2 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news178909860.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:01 EST news178909860 (PhysOrg.com) -- Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ONE. http://www.physorg.com/news177839355.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:53:30 EST news177839355 (AP) -- Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a government report said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news176471373.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:40:02 EST news176471373 Dialysis patients with low body fat are at increased risk of death -even compared to patients at the highest level of body fat percentage, according to research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego. http://www.physorg.com/news176403792.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:40:02 EST news176403792 Patients with chronic heart failure who agree to take part in clinical trials have a better prognosis than those who do not, according to a study reported in the November European Journal of Heart Failure.(1) The finding, say the authors, may even call into question the commonplace ethical requirement of most clinical trials that by choosing not to take part in the study a patient will not be disadvantaged. http://www.physorg.com/news176116041.html Medicine & Health Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:30:01 EST news176116041 Compared to the general population, patients starting dialysis have an increased risk of death that is not attributable to a higher rate of death from cardiovascular causes, as previously thought, according to a study in the October 28 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news175885310.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:30:01 EST news175885310 A study published in The Cochrane Review this month concludes that pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), already known to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and x-ray defined pneumonia, was also effective against child deaths. The findings were based on a systematic review of the results of 6 randomized and controlled trials conducted in the US, Africa, Philippines, and Finland. Eighty percent of children were less likely to develop vaccine-type IPD, 58% all-serotype IPD, and 27% x-ray defined pneumonia than children who did not receive the vaccine. Eleven percent of child deaths were also prevented. In total, 113,044 children were included in the six trials - 57,015 children in the PCV group and 56,029 in the control group. http://www.physorg.com/news175173101.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:12:22 EST news175173101 A new study suggests that high mortality rates in small-bodied people, commonly known as pygmies, may be part of the reason for their small stature. The study, by Jay Stock and Andrea Migliano, both of the University of Cambridge, helps unravel the mystery of how small-bodied people got that way. http://www.physorg.com/news173974119.html Biology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:30:07 EST news173974119 When adolescents graduate to young adulthood, their preventive care tends to fall by the wayside. A recent study has found that young adults are much less likely to use ambulatory or preventive care, even though their mortality rate is more than twice that of adolescents. http://www.physorg.com/news173096382.html Medicine & Health Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:20:12 EST news173096382 People admitted to English hospitals in an emergency on the first Wednesday in August have, on average, a six percent higher mortality rate than people admitted on the previous Wednesday, according to research published in PLoS ONE today. http://www.physorg.com/news172908998.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:30:02 EST news172908998 Mortality rates in several Mediterranean countries decline in September, due in part to environmental factors but possibly linked to summer vacations, suggests a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://www.physorg.com/news172755055.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:40:01 EST news172755055 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by McMaster University researchers has found low-risk women who have midwives in attendance during birth have positive outcomes regardless of where the delivery takes place. http://www.physorg.com/news172502894.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:30:01 EST news172502894 While the total mortality rate from unintentional injury increased in the U.S. by 11 percent between 1999 and 2005, far larger increases were seen in some subgroups analyzed by age, race, ethnicity and type of injury by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy. http://www.physorg.com/news171120378.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:40:01 EST news171120378 Mortality rate following a heart attack has fallen by more than 50% in Europe over the past 25 years. However, because only minor advances in the medical treatment of AMI are expected over the next decade, it is through organisational changes in the pre-hospital phase that mortality rate will continue this decline to below 5%. http://www.physorg.com/news171006416.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:00:02 EST news171006416 The wider use of reperfusion therapy in patients with heart attack (AMI) can save millions of lives in Europe. Effective reperfusion therapy in an AMI patient can cut the individual risk of dying by half. AMI is caused by a sudden blockage of a coronary artery, one of the vessels supplying the heart muscle with oxygen and nutrients. Effective reperfusion therapy provides a timely and sustainable reopening of the blockage. http://www.physorg.com/news170999938.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:59:23 EST news170999938 (PhysOrg.com) -- People with kidney disease undergo balloon dilation treatment after myocardial infarction less frequently, and therefore have a poorer prognosis. This according to new clinical research published in the journal Circulation. http://www.physorg.com/news170433724.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:43:13 EST news170433724 From 1995 to 2006, hospital 30-day death rates decreased significantly for Medicare patients hospitalized for a heart attack, as did the variation in the rate between hospitals, according to a study in the August 19 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news169832184.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:50:02 EST news169832184 The number of cancer deaths has declined steadily in the last three decades. Although younger people have experienced the steepest declines, all age groups have shown some improvement, according to a recent report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news169373113.html Medicine & Health Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:05:48 EST news169373113 Recreational anglers and commercial fishermen understand you need good fishery management to make sure there will be healthy populations of fish for generations to come. And making good management decisions rests in large part on understanding the mortality of fish species - how many fish die each year as a result of natural causes and recreational and commercial fishing. Now researchers at North Carolina State University have utilized a new research method that can give fishery managers a better idea of how fish are dying, so they can make informed decisions on how to ensure a healthy fish population. http://www.physorg.com/news169103795.html Biology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:17:23 EST news169103795 A clinical study carried out at Hospital de la Timone in Marseille, France, has demonstrated that a standardized management protocol for patients with infective endocarditis can dramatically reduce mortality rates. http://www.physorg.com/news168866975.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:01 EST news168866975 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a blood-borne disease that causes inflammation of the liver and to which there is currently no vaccine available. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 3% of the world's population, approximately 170 million people, are infected with HCV and it is a leading cause of liver cirrhosis, end stage liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and liver transplantation. http://www.physorg.com/news168179353.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:51:09 EST news168179353 (PhysOrg.com) -- Suggestive evidence points to the possibility that children who have a diet high in calcium and who consume dairy products may have a lower mortality rate than those who don`t, according to a study by researchers in Bristol and Brisbane, published in the journal Heart. http://www.physorg.com/news168015704.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:03:32 EST news168015704 A new study examining the evolution of maternal mortality rates in Spain since 1996 shows a 17% increase in deaths. This trend is linked to the widespread increase in maternal age. The highest death rates are among foreign women and those who live in the province of Malaga. http://www.physorg.com/news165669233.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:14:45 EST news165669233 Advances in weight-loss surgery have made it as safe as any routine surgical procedure, according to a Duke University Medical Center researcher who reviewed data from nearly 60,000 patients and found it resulted in low complication and mortality rates. http://www.physorg.com/news165066030.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:50:01 EST news165066030 Two Oregon State University researchers have uncovered a pattern of distrust - and sometimes outright antagonism - among physicians at hospitals and midwives who are transporting their home-birth clients to the hospital because of complications. http://www.physorg.com/news161277224.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 May 2009 16:14:21 EST news161277224 Over the next 20 years, the number of new cancer cases diagnosed annually in the United States will increase by 45 percent, from 1.6 million in 2010 to 2.3 million in 2030, with a dramatic spike in incidence predicted in the elderly and minority populations, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. http://www.physorg.com/news160275278.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:54:55 EST news160275278 Healthcare Reform should start with "evidence-based reimbursement", structuring physician payment incentives around existing empirical evidence of clinical benefit, which would improve quality and reduce the cost of healthcare, says a commentary written by two cardiologists and published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. http://www.physorg.com/news159465899.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:05:34 EST news159465899 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of more than 45,000 people with HIV in Europe and North America suggests that the minimum CD4-cell count threshold for initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) should be 350 cells per µL of blood. This is at the upper limit of levels for starting cART currently recommended in many countries. http://www.physorg.com/news158508470.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:08:53 EST news158508470