News tagged with rates
Young adults visit doctors least at an age when risky behavior peaks
Sep 25, 2009 |
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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 ...
New research shows small increase in hospital mortality rates in the first week of August
Sep 23, 2009 |
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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 ...
Seasonality of mortality: Summer vacation link?
Sep 21, 2009 |
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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).
New study finds home birth safe
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(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.
45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health insurance: study
Sep 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
CDC: 1 in 3 teen girls got cervical cancer vaccine
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new government report shows one in three teenage girls have rolled up their sleeves for a relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, but vaccination rates vary dramatically between states.
Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Outcomes appear to be improving for conservative management of localized prostate cancer
Sep 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
Active older adults live longer, have better functional status
Sep 14, 2009 |
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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/A ...
She's going back to school but can she read?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Five million students will return to Canadian schools this month. If nothing changes at least a million will fail to graduate high school.
Deaths from unintentional injuries increase for many groups
Sep 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Pre-hospital organization: The first links in the chain of survival for heart attack patients
Sep 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
The benefits of reperfusion therapy
Sep 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Do women who smoke like men die like men?
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Smoking still kills more men than women, because men started smoking substantial numbers of cigarettes long before women did.
Patients with renal disease under-treated after myocardial infarction
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(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 ...
