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Despite improvements in obstetric care services, women from deprived areas are still more likely to give birth to a very preterm baby compared with mothers from more affluent areas, finds a study published on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news178919468.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:10:03 EST news178919468 (AP) -- South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS. http://www.physorg.com/news178913847.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:17:50 EST news178913847 A substantial number of premature infants born before 27 weeks gestational age encounter complicated medical problems. Although the survival rate of these infants has increased over the last two decades, the survival data for these patients is highly variable. http://www.physorg.com/news178907915.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:43:55 EST news178907915 Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and the Richmond Ambulance Authority have improved resuscitation and survival rates dramatically for cardiac arrest patients by training and equipping paramedics to begin lowering a patient's body temperature in the field during resuscitation and following up at the hospital with a host of high-tech strategies to improve the odds of survival. http://www.physorg.com/news177604279.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:09 EST news177604279 The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than when bystanders performed standard CPR. These are the latest findings reported by the Resuscitation Research Group at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center and the SHARE Program (Save Hearts in Arizona Research and Education) at the Arizona Department of Health Services. http://www.physorg.com/news177599075.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:30:03 EST news177599075 Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital working in conjunction with EMS services, paramedics and fire services across Ontario found that a bystander who attempts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can quadruple the survival rate to over 50 per cent. But Dr. Laurie Morrison and the research team at Rescu have found only 30 per cent of bystanders in Toronto are willing to help, one of the lowest rates of bystanders helping others in the developed world. http://www.physorg.com/news176737455.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:01 EST news176737455 The race of kidney donors may affect the survival rates of transplant recipients according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news176120668.html Medicine & Health Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:40:02 EST news176120668 New Mayo Clinic research has found that survival rates of patients with Barrett's esophagus, which can be a precursor for esophageal cancer, are no different than the survival rates for the general population. These findings were presented today at the 2009 American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Annual Meeting in San Diego. http://www.physorg.com/news175787545.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:52:56 EST news175787545 (PhysOrg.com) -- A study involving a University of Glasgow cancer specialist has found that using Herceptin increases survival rates among those with stomach cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news173103679.html Medicine & Health Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:40:01 EST news173103679 A comparison of outcomes of different eras of conservative treatment for localized prostate cancer indicates that overall and prostate cancer-specific survival rates are higher for men diagnosed from 1992 through 2002 compared to men diagnosed in the 1970s and 1980s, according to a study in the September 16 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news172253119.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:50:01 EST news172253119 Older adults who continue or begin to do any amount of exercise appear to live longer and have a lower risk of disability, according to a report in the September 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news172163756.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:16:18 EST news172163756 Among unmarried cancer patients, those who are separated at the time of diagnosis do not live as long as widowed, divorced, and never married patients. That is the conclusion of a new study to be published in the November 1, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The authors of the study say its results suggest that the stress associated with marital separation may compromise an individual's immune system and lead to a greater susceptibility to cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news170307541.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:40:03 EST news170307541 Patients with cirrhosis are at risk for developing portal hypertension that can lead to the formation, dilation, and rupture of esophageal varices. The annual incidence of esophageal varices is approximately 5% and one third of those will bleed. http://www.physorg.com/news169898284.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:10:03 EST news169898284 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 A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers sheds light on the challenges involved in identifying which high-risk population would benefit most from bladder-cancer screening. http://www.physorg.com/news166941395.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:40:47 EST news166941395 New research published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons reveals that African Americans with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), a rare cancer that begins in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract, now have survival rates equivalent to those of Caucasians. Prior to 2000, African Americans were more likely to develop GIST and less likely to undergo surgical treatment for this type of cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news166792780.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:20:07 EST news166792780 Coronary artery bypass surgery provides long-term benefits for children whose hearts and blood vessels are damaged by Kawasaki disease, Japanese researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://www.physorg.com/news164907739.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:50:01 EST news164907739 Survival rates for cancer are continuing to rise even though the number of cases being diagnosed is increasing, an all-Ireland report launched today reveals. http://www.physorg.com/news159789945.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:06:36 EST news159789945 Human lung tumors have the ability to eliminate Vitamin D, a hormone with anti-cancer activity, a new study from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) suggests. Results of the study are being presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), April 18 to 22, in Denver. http://www.physorg.com/news159461982.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:00:04 EST news159461982 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 Black patients suffering from lung cancer are less likely to receive recommended chemotherapy and surgery than white lung cancer patients, a disparity that shows no signs of lessening. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the May 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's findings indicate that efforts are needed to provide appropriate treatments for black patients and to educate them about the value of those treatments. http://www.physorg.com/news158835141.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:52:50 EST news158835141 A University of Minnesota cancer surgeon and researcher has found a dramatic increase in the number of women diagnosed with the earliest stage of breast cancer choosing to have both breasts surgically removed. http://www.physorg.com/news158493613.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:00:44 EST news158493613 (AP) -- A drug from Novartis has won U.S. approval as a treatment for patients with kidney cancer that has returned after treatment with older drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news157655661.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:14:46 EST news157655661 A new studying appearing in Congenital Heart Disease compares the careers and long-term occupational successes of men and women who underwent surgery for congenital heart disease to those of the general population. The project has produced evidence that shows how medicine may provide preconditions for individuals with congenital defects to live a successful life. http://www.physorg.com/news157655365.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:09:55 EST news157655365 A congenital heart disease that often leads to death in newborns is significantly more common during the summer, leading researchers to believe that the environment, and not just genes that affect the heart, may play a role in causing "mini-epidemics" of this disease. http://www.physorg.com/news157626855.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:15:08 EST news157626855 A new study examining data on incidence trends, mortality rates and survival rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registries indicates that the incidence of liver cancer in the United States tripled between 1975 and 2005. http://www.physorg.com/news154191005.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:45 EST news154191005 Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur in white patients, not black patients. http://www.physorg.com/news154025462.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:51:17 EST news154025462 A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV, provided certain risk factors for transplant failure are recognized and tightly managed. http://www.physorg.com/news151609761.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:51:01 EST news151609761 Disparities in survival among black patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer are not seen when patients are recommended appropriate treatment, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news151609530.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:47:50 EST news151609530 Obesity affects health in several ways, but new research shows obesity can have minimal impact on ovarian cancer survival. A study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center found ovarian cancer survival rates are the same for obese and non-obese women if their chemotherapy doses are closely matched to individual weight. http://www.physorg.com/news149768781.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:26:21 EST news149768781