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Mortality

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Mortality

description: Death rate.

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 10 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Medicine)

Why Women Reject the Mammogram Recommendations

Most adult women know a woman in her 40s who was diagnosed with breast cancer and died. So the news this week that mammograms and self–breast exams do little to protect women under 50 against breast cancer—and that doctors have nothing new to offer in ... [MSNBC Newsweek - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Mammography, Breast Cancer, Mortality, biopsy

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Medicine)

Study Finds Depression as Deadly as Smoking

Depression is as much of a risk factor for death as smoking, according to a new study. Utilising a unique link between a survey of over 60,000 people and a comprehensive mortality database, researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute ... [MedIndia - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Mortality, Robert Stewart, University of Bergen, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF/ICEF)

Dying Mothers Highlight Failure in Achieving MDGs

With little more than five years left before the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the number of maternal deaths remains stubbornly high, according to a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report released on Thursday.The world ... [China Development Gateway - 16 hours ago]

Entities: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF/ICEF), Ann M Veneman, United Nations, Somalia, Mortality

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

Trauma Victims Without Insurance More Likely to Die Following Hospitalisation

People who are uninsured are more likely to die following admission to the hospital for trauma, reveals a new US study.The research involving 687,091 American patients age 18 and older has shown that uninsured adults have a 25 percent higher risk of mortality ... [MedIndia - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Admission, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)

Study Links Folic Acid with Cancer Risk

Treatment with folic acid plus vitamin B12 was associated with increased cancer outcomes and all-cause mortality in patients with ischemic heart disease in Norway, according to a recent study published in JAMA.The objective of this study was to evaluate ... [Nutraceuticals World - 11/19/2009]

Entities: folic acid, folate, Vitamin

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Biology)

USPSTF Makes Sweeping Changes to Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations

Task Force No Longer Recommends Routine Mammograms in Women Ages 40-49The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, or USPSTF, has updated its recommendations for breast cancer screening with some significant changes, including a recommendation against routine ... [American Family Physician - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Task Force, Mammography, Breast Cancer

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Higher-Dose Losartan More Effective in Patients With Heart Failure: Presented at AHA

-- A higher dose of the angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB) losartan appears to be more effective than a lower dose in the treatment of patients with heart failure, according to trial data presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions ... [Doctors Guide - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Cozaar, Mortality, Angiotensin Converting Enzyme

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Sierra Leone: Patient Fees Put Lifesaving Medical Care Out of Reach

Patient Fees Put Lifesaving Medical Care Out of Reach (11/17/09) Doctors Without Borders In , a simple medical consultation may cost as much as 25 days of income. These fees are a major obstacle to life-saving health care in a country with some of the ... [MSF-USA - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Médecins Sans Frontières, Donor, Sierra Leone

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Medicine)

Publicly released report cards do not appear to improve hospitals' performance, says new study

An analysis of quality of cardiac care following the public release of data on measures of care at hospitals in Ontario, Canada, did not result in significant systemwide improvement in hospitals' performance on most quality of care indicators, according ... [News-Medical.Net - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Mortality, ACE Inhibitor, congestive heart failure, Myocardial Infarction, American Heart Association

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

AHA: Diuretics Measure Up to Newer BP Drugs

ORLANDO -- Over the long term, diuretics fight hypertension as well as newer, more expensive blood pressure medications, researchers said here.A 10-year analysis of the ALLHAT study confirmed continued lack of superiority of calcium channel blockers and ... [MedPage Today - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Chlorthalidone, Diuretics, Cushman, Mortality, Lisinopril

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

AS feasible for favorable-risk prostate cancer patients

MedWire News: Active surveillance (AS) is a feasible treatment option for men with favorable-risk prostate cancer, and for those who are over 70 years old with intermediate-risk disease, say Canadian researchers.In a study of 450 men on AS protocols for ... [MedWire News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Prostate Cancer, biopsy, Mortality, Gleason Score

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Report on maternity deaths lists 29 ways to improve

Recommendations to help improve the quality and safety of New Zealand's maternity services are contained in a report issued yesterday.The third annual report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee is the most complete of its kind to ... [New Zealand Herald - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Mortality, New Zealand, Neonatal, Epidemiology, Annual Report

Quotes

..."It is unacceptable that children are still dying from preventable causes, like pneumonia, malaria, measles and malnutrition," said Veneman. "Many of the world's children will never see the inside of a school room, and millions lack protection against violence, abuse, exploitation, discrimination and neglect." The rights of girls still require special attention...

UNICEF's State of The World's Children report commemorates 20 years of the CRC [UNICEF - 2 hours ago]

...of more than 400 funeral workers is the first to look carefully at the association, they reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. "Previous studies have shown excess mortality from lymphohematopoietic malignancies and brain cancer in anatomists, pathologists, and funeral industry workers, all of whom may have worked with formaldehyde" Laura Freeman of the U S National Cancer Institute and colleagues wrote

Deadly job? Funeral workers risk cancer [MSNBC - 3 hours ago]

According to Ahmadova, in Azerbaijan there are serious problems associated with child mortality. "The international organizations should not refuse to assist in addressing this problem" she said. According to the MP, as a result of intervention by the President of Azerbaijan, the trafficking of children was eliminated in the country...

Azerbaijani MP reproaches international organizations with indifference to fate of children in ca ... [Trend News Agency - 3 hours ago]

More Content

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Media Availability with Secretary Gates and Can... [Defense Link - 2 hours ago]
In Sierra Leone, UNICEF Intensifies Campaign on... [AwarenessTimes - 2 hours ago]
Taking a slice of the risk [Engaged Investor - 2 hours ago]
PPA, AKUH seminars on child health [The News International - 2 hours ago]
UNICEF's State of The World's Children report c... [UNICEF - 2 hours ago]
Georgia commemorates 20 years of the CRC with c... [UNICEF - 2 hours ago]
Antigenics Inc. (New York) (AGEN) Cancer Vaccin... [BioSpace - 2 hours ago]
POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Developme... [Inter Press Service - 2 hours ago]
Monique Coleman to Illuminate UNICEF Snowflake ... [PR Newswire via MSN Money - 2 hours ago]
Monique Coleman to Illuminate UNICEF Snowflake ... [Street Insider - 2 hours ago]
Protect children from economic crisis: UN agency [Daily Times - 2 hours ago]
County-Level Data Reveals Diabetes, Obesity Hot... [Modern Medicine - 3 hours ago]
Deadly job? Funeral workers risk cancer [MSNBC - 3 hours ago]
Azerbaijani MP reproaches international organiz... [Trend News Agency - 3 hours ago]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk [Inter Press Service - 3 hours ago]
PROFNET EXPERT ALERTS: New Mammogram Guidelines [Forbes.com - 3 hours ago]
CDC: H1N1 down some, but could return [UPI - 3 hours ago]
Safeguarding children in New Nepal [Nepali Times - 3 hours ago]
The New Mammogram Guidelines: What You Need to ... [Time - 3 hours ago]
U.S. bishops Approve Document on Reproductive T... [Catholic Online - 4 hours ago]
Children's rights get short shrift in the 'luck... [Brisbane Times - 4 hours ago]
'1 million newborns die every yr in India' [Times of India - 4 hours ago]
Funeral industry workers exposed to formaldehyd... [EurekAlert! - 4 hours ago]
Funeral workers risk cancer from formaldehyde [Yahoo! News - 5 hours ago]
Revised Cancer Screening Recommendations [Suite101.com - 6 hours ago]
New Breast Cancer Recommendation May Cost Lives... [Earthtimes.org - 6 hours ago]

Blogs

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Does Agency Cynicism Serve Wolves, Science, or ... [Switchboard, from NRDC - 4 hours ago] A recent meeting of the Montana Chapter of the Society of Conservation Biology showcased talks by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Western Gray Wolf ...
Deutsche funds hurt by rising life expectancies [Market Pipeline - 4 hours ago] Posted on FT Alphaville by Stacy-Marie Ishmael:Betting on life expectancy, as investors in so-called life settlements do, is fraught with risk - not least that people ...
Tom Matlack: Put Your Manhood On The Tray [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 5 hours ago] My wife's annual mammogram has always been a time of great anxiety. It's my least favorite week of the year. Not because she has cancer but because she ...
Four Ways Listicles Make Us Immortal, According... [Gawker - 8 hours ago] Italian novelist Umberto Eco, the go-to intellectual for journalists worldwide, has deconstructed the human obsession with all things listy. The bottom line for ...
High levels of benzene emissions in the Barnett... [Switchboard, from NRDC - 8 hours ago] According to a recent news report, the head toxicologist for the Texas Commisssion on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is "shocked" at the high levels of benzene ...

Audio/Video

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Polio Vaccine, Mesothelioma, SV-40, Smallpox, H... [Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - 11/18/2009]
Polio Vaccine, Mesothelioma, SV-40, Smallpox, H... [Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - 11/18/2009]
Polio Vaccine, Mesothelioma, SV-40, Smallpox, H... [Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - 11/18/2009]
When it comes to cancer screening, more isn't a... [Slate Magazine - 11/17/2009]
Mammography Screening Guidelines-Mayo Clinic [Mayo Clinic - YouTube - 11/16/2009]

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