Cada año, las personas inician incendios que les cuestan las vidas a 20,000 estadounidenses
MARTES, 17 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Los incendios que inician las personas conforman una mayoría de las muertes prematuras relacionadas con la inhalación de unas minúsculas partículas de humo en Estados Unidos, revela un estudio reciente.E…
Learn MoreSurgery Brings Added Risks to People With COPD
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Major surgery is a challenge for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), raising their odds of death within a year by 61%, new research shows. The researchers also found these patients incur…
Learn MoreEach Year, People Start Fires That Cost 20,000 American Lives
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Fires started by people account for a majority of premature deaths related to inhalation of tiny smoke particles in the United States, a new study reveals. These blazes, which are increasing, led to 20,000 pr…
Learn MoreGun Deaths to Kids Are Rising in Pandemic, U.S. Hospital Study Shows
MONDAY, Jan. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) — If a study conducted at one St. Louis hospital is a good indicator, the COVID pandemic is tied to a surge in childhood injuries and deaths due to firearms. Black children and those in low-income households wer…
Learn MoreInpatient Mortality Up With Exposure to High Capacity Utilization
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For inpatients, exposure to high bed-occupancy (capacity utilization) increases the risk of mortality, according to a study published online Dec. 19 in BMC Health Services Research.Narayan Sharma, Ph.D., from …
Learn MoreSocial Determinants of Health Affect Racial Disparity in Prostate Cancer Mortality
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When accounting for social determinants of health (SDOH), Black men with prostate cancer have lower prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM) than White men, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis …
Learn MoreU.S. Cancer Deaths Decline Overall, But Prostate Cancers Make Rebound
THURSDAY, Jan. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Cancer deaths continue to decline, dropping 33% since 1991 and saving an estimated 3.8 million lives, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual statistics report.But individual trends within that ove…
Learn More1975 to 2019 Saw Decrease in Stroke Mortality for Men, Women
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — From 1975 to 2019, there was a decrease in age-standardized stroke mortality for men and women, according to a study recently published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.Cande V. Ananth, Ph.D., M…
Learn MoreSe reducen las muertes por ACV en EE. UU., pero es probable que haya un nuevo aumento en los casos
LUNES, 9 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Las muertes por el accidente cerebrovascular (ACV) se han reducido de forma dramática en EE. UU. en las últimas décadas. Pero, advierten los investigadores, su nuevo estudio también encontró el potencial d…
Learn MoreUna nueva esperanza contra una enfermedad ‘incurable’ del hígado que acaba con la vida de niños
VIERNES, 6 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Los pacientes con una enfermedad del hígado genética e incurable tienen una nueva esperanza, después de que un estudio con animales mostró que un solo fármaco podría revertir sus efectos.El síndrome de A…
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