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Bioelectronic implant could prevent opioid deaths

15.10.2019 Health Problems

Researchers are developing a novel, implantable device that can sense the effects of a potentially fatal level of ingested opioids and then automatically and immediately deliver a life-saving dose of naloxone. The interdisciplinary research team, led by Northwestern University and Washington University at St. Louis, recently received a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term […]

ACA’s medicaid expansion may have lowered heart disease deaths

06.06.2019 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—New research supports the notion that Obamacare has improved the health of Americans: State expansions in Medicaid appear to have cut the number of deaths from heart disease. Counties in states with expanded Medicaid experienced an average of four fewer deaths from heart disease per 100,000 people than states that didn’t accept the expansion under the Affordable Care Act. In […]

Researchers predict 1.4 million deaths from all cancers in 2019 in the EU

19.03.2019 Health Problems

Death rates from breast cancer are predicted to fall in all European Union (EU) countries in 2019 with the exception of Poland, according to new research published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology today. In their annual predictions for cancer deaths in the EU, Carlo La Vecchia (MD), Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Milan (Italy), […]

Preventing infant deaths: The ABCs of safe baby sleep

20.11.2018 Kids Health

Just last week, I read an X-ray study of an infant who died while sleeping with a parent. I am a pediatric radiologist, and in cases where an infant has died unexpectedly, we often obtain X-ray images to make sure that the infant does not have skeletal fractures or other signs of injury that might suggest that he or she […]

Type 2 diabetes tied to raised risk of tumors, cancer deaths

03.10.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of developing cancer and dying from certain forms of the disease, a new study suggests. However, the researchers noted, the absolute increased risk is low. “Our findings do not suggest that everyone who has diabetes will go on to develop cancer in later life,” said study leader Hulda Hrund Bjornsdottir, from […]

Large number of presumed sudden cardiac deaths are not

22.08.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—A large percentage of deaths attributed to cardiac arrest are neither sudden nor unexpected, according to a study published recently in Circulation. Zian H. Tseng, M.D., from the University of California in San Francisco, and colleagues identified all incident deaths attributed to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (patients between 18 and 90 years of age in San Francisco County) based on autopsy, […]

Europe sees sharp rise in measles: 41,000 cases, 37 deaths

21.08.2018 Health Problems

The World Health Organization says the number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply during the first six months of 2018 and at least 37 people have died. The U.N. agency’s European office said Monday more than 41,000 measles cases were reported in the region during the first half of the year—more than in all 12-month periods so far this […]

Button batteries kill—here’s how we can prevent needless child deaths from battery ingestion

10.08.2018 Kids Health

In 2013, four-year-old Summer Steer died from acute blood loss several days after swallowing a button battery. She hadn’t told her family she’d swallowed anything, so they didn’t know what was wrong. At least not until the caustic reaction caused by the battery, which had lodged in her oesophagus, ate through to her aorta. She presented to hospital with a […]

Alcohol increases tuberculosis-related deaths in young mice

03.08.2018 Health Problems

Alcohol increases the mortality of young but not old mice infected with the tuberculosis-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and this effect is mediated by the production of a protein called interferon-alpha (IFN-α). The study, led by Deepak Tripathi of the University of Texas Health Science Center, will be published August 2 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens. Chronic alcohol consumption […]

Congo says confirmed Ebola cases have reached 30; 8 deaths

24.05.2018 Health Problems

Congo’s fight to rein in a deadly Ebola outbreak has authorities crossing the border to buy up available thermometers, a World Health Organization official said, as the health ministry on Thursday announced that confirmed cases had reached 30, including eight deaths. The spread of the often lethal hemorrhagic fever to a provincial capital of 1.2 million people has health officials […]