Over the last 20 years, the number of men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer has increased, due in large part to widespread screening using the prostate-specific antigen PSA blood test. A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows many of those men – more than a million, by [...]
A USA TODAY analysis finds two dozen hospitals near popular travel destinations, as compiled by the National Travel Monitor, have death rates among the worst in the USA. A separate analysis shows that one of every four hospitals with high death rates for heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia — 94 of 402 — are [...]
Births in most of the Gulf Coast areas hit by Hurricane Katrina plunged in the 12 months following the deadly storm, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report from CDC′s National Center for Health Statistics, “The Effect of Hurricane Katrina: Births in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region, Before [...]
Childhood immunization rates in the United States remain stable at high levels, according to data from CDC′s 2008 National Immunization Survey (NIS) published in this week′s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). “Vaccination is one of the most important things parents can do to protect their children′s health,” said Dr. Melinda Wharton, Deputy Director, National [...]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reminding the public that stolen vials of the long-acting insulin Levemir made by Novo Nordisk Inc. still may be on the market. FDA first alerted the public to the theft in June 2009. Evidence gathered to date suggests that the stolen insulin was not stored and handled properly [...]
More than six million people in the U.S. suffer from persistent wounds — open sores that never seem to heal or, once apparently healed, return with a vengeance. “The problem is chronic,” says Prof. Amihay Freeman of TAU’s Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology. To solve it, he’s developed a unique device that uses a [...]
Patients who experience fatigue during radiotherapy for breast or prostate cancer may be reacting to activation of the proinflammatory cytokine network, a known inflammatory pathway, according to a report in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “This study suggests that exposure to radiation is releasing these inflammatory cytokines and [...]
Though it’s often portrayed as a scourge of the teen years, acne can affect people of all ages. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about 80 percent of people between the ages of 11 and 30 have outbreaks of the skin disorder at some point. “Many see their acne go away by the [...]
U.S. life expectancy reached nearly 78 years (77.9), and the age-adjusted death rate dropped to 760.3 deaths per 100,000 population, both records, according to the latest mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report, “Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2007,” was issued today by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. The [...]
Avastin Approved for Kidney CancerArticle date: 2009/08/12By Rebecca V. SnowdenAvastin bevacizumab, manufactured by Genentech, was recently approved to treat the most common type of kidney cancer.The FDA recently OKed Avastin plus interferon-alfa, an immunotherapy drug, for treating renal cell carcinoma that has spread to other parts of the body. The approval is based on results [...]