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Study reports increased risk of death in patients receiving anesthesia drug etomidate for surgery

Patients receiving the widely used anesthesia drug etomidate for surgery may be at increased risk or mortality and cardiovascular events, according to a study in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society.

14 Dec 2013

UCSF receives $15M grant to help three dozen countries eliminate malaria

UC San Francisco's Global Health Group has received a $15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a pioneering effort to help nearly three dozen countries eliminate malaria within their borders.

13 Dec 2013

Exercise may slow kidney function decline in kidney disease patients

Increased physical activity may slow kidney function decline in patients with kidney disease, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The findings suggest that exercise could have a powerful effect on maintaining patients' health.

13 Dec 2013

NLST data provides vital information to better understand the benefits, risks of lung cancer screening

Data from the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial—conducted by the American College of Radiology Imaging Network and National Cancer Institute Lung Screening Study—provided researchers the opportunity to investigate the probability that a cancer detected with screening low-dose computed tomography would not have progressed to become life threatening. The results of this investigation published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine suggest that up to 18 percent of the cancers detected by LDCT may not have progressed enough to affect patient health if left undetected.

12 Dec 2013

Circulating nucleosomes and colorectal cancer diagnostics: an interview with Dr. Stefan Holdenrieder, University Hospital Bonn

For my MD thesis I modified and evaluated an immunological assay that detected the cell death products “nucleosomes” as a new blood-based cancer biomarker. As cell death processes are enhanced or suppressed during different stages of tumor development, it was assumed that they may enable stage-dependent detection of cancer disease.

12 Dec 2013

Researchers discover new therapeutic approach for hemophilia

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Medical College of Wisconsin found that a new kind of gene therapy led to a dramatic decline in bleeding events in dogs with naturally occurring hemophilia A, a serious and costly bleeding condition that affects about 50,000 people in the United States and millions more around the world.

12 Dec 2013

Study compares aging patterns of humans and other species

Adult humans get weaker as they age and then die, but that's not the typical pattern across species. Some organisms don't appear to show signs of aging at all.

12 Dec 2013

Findings help inform ongoing discussions regarding potential changes to US' lung allocation policy

A new analysis has found no evidence that children aged 6 to 11 years seeking a deceased donor lung transplant are disadvantaged in the current US lung allocation system. The findings, which are published in the American Journal of Transplantation, help inform ongoing discussions regarding potential changes to the nation's lung allocation policy.

12 Dec 2013

Study: Younger women more likely to be hospitalized and die from acute myocardial infarction

Young women, ages 55 years or below, are more likely to be hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and to die within the first 30 days than men in the same age group, according to a new study published in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

12 Dec 2013

Queen's University to lead €6 million European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer

Queen's University has announced it is to lead a -6 million European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer.

12 Dec 2013

FDA Advisory Committee recommends metreleptin for treatment of generalized lipodystrophy

AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) recommends the investigational medicine metreleptin for the treatment of pediatric and adult patients with generalized lipodystrophy (LD).

12 Dec 2013

HIV stigma: an interview with Dr. Vargas-Jackson, M.D. Howard University Hospital

Stigma has been defined as a social opportunistic disease that attaches to many illnesses and increases morbidity and mortality rates. Stigma is the shame or disgrace attached to illnesses and diseases regarded as socially unacceptable.

11 Dec 2013

Queen's University heads key European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer

Queen's University has announced it is to lead a €6 million European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer.

11 Dec 2013

Results-Based Financing for Health can get 20% more health care with same funds

Countries and major donors are changing the way they finance maternal and child, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS health programs in low-income countries to increase their impact.

11 Dec 2013

Daiichi Sankyo presents subgroup analysis of Hokusai-VTE study at ASH annual meeting

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) today announced results of a prespecified subgroup analysis of 771 cancer patients enrolled in the phase 3 Hokusai-VTE study.

11 Dec 2013

New review calls for action to reduce illness and death from silica exposure at work

A new review highlights new developments in understanding the health effects of silica, and calls for action to reduce illness and death from silica exposure at work, including stronger regulations, heightened awareness and prevention, and increased attention to early detection of silicosis and lung cancer using low dose CT scanning.

11 Dec 2013

Australian childhood cancer death rates drop significantly over decade

Australian childhood cancer death rates have dropped significantly over a decade, new Cancer Council Queensland research shows.

10 Dec 2013

New demographic data unveils extraordinary diversity of aging processes

Despite aging being one the hottest topic in the media recently, scientists have no coherent explanation for it. New demographic data on humans, animals and plants for the first time unveil such an extraordinary diversity of aging processes that no existing evolutionary theory can account for. Both life spans and mortalities vary from species to species.

10 Dec 2013

Older people with diabetes are susceptible to nonfatal cardiovascular complications, hypoglycemic events

Cardiovascular complications and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) were common nonfatal complications in adults 60 years of age and older with diabetes, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

9 Dec 2013

Lung cancer screening using low-dose CT reduces mortality in high-risk smokers

Previous evidence, including published National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST) results, shows that computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening significantly reduces lung cancer deaths in high risk patients*, and is appropriate, with careful patient selection and follow-up.

9 Dec 2013

Mortality News and Research

Study reports increased risk of death in patients receiving anesthesia drug etomidate for surgery

UCSF receives $15M grant to help three dozen countries eliminate malaria

Exercise may slow kidney function decline in kidney disease patients

NLST data provides vital information to better understand the benefits, risks of lung cancer screening

Circulating nucleosomes and colorectal cancer diagnostics: an interview with Dr. Stefan Holdenrieder, University Hospital Bonn

Researchers discover new therapeutic approach for hemophilia

Study compares aging patterns of humans and other species

Findings help inform ongoing discussions regarding potential changes to US' lung allocation policy

Study: Younger women more likely to be hospitalized and die from acute myocardial infarction

Queen's University to lead €6 million European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer

FDA Advisory Committee recommends metreleptin for treatment of generalized lipodystrophy

HIV stigma: an interview with Dr. Vargas-Jackson, M.D. Howard University Hospital

Queen's University heads key European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer

Results-Based Financing for Health can get 20% more health care with same funds

Daiichi Sankyo presents subgroup analysis of Hokusai-VTE study at ASH annual meeting

New review calls for action to reduce illness and death from silica exposure at work

Australian childhood cancer death rates drop significantly over decade

New demographic data unveils extraordinary diversity of aging processes

Older people with diabetes are susceptible to nonfatal cardiovascular complications, hypoglycemic events

Lung cancer screening using low-dose CT reduces mortality in high-risk smokers

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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