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US health care: Older colon cancer patients not to be offered chemo
March 19, 2010By Melinda Smith The World Health Organization (WHO) lists colon cancer among the deadliest diseases. In 2004, some 639,000 people around the world died from colon cancer. If caught in time, surgery and chemotherapy are effective treatments. But a new...
Study: Death rates higher for elderly ICU patients in U.S.
March 08, 2010By Melinda Smith The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by the year 2080, one in five Americans will be over age 65. For some time, experts have warned that health care needs of the elderly will be enormous in the years ahead. A study out this week...
Doctors in America in short supply (video)
February 25, 2010By Melinda Smith In the U.S., doctors are known for working extraordinarily long hours, seeing patients in the office and then at the hospital. But in the last decade American doctors have been either retiring or putting in shorter work weeks while...
Number of cancer-ill patients increased by ten per cent last year, against 2006
February 05, 2008The number of the cancer-ill patients increased by ten per cent last year, against 2006, sources from the Ministry of Health have said. Most frequent forms of cancer among the Moldovan population are the skin and breast cancer, Oncological Institute...
Diabetes drug poses risk for elderly
December 13, 2007Older patients treated for diabetes with thiazolidinediones had an increased risk of heart attack, congestive heart failure and death, a U.S. study found. Dr. Lorraine L. Lipscombe of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, in Toronto, and...
Mannkind Corp. bets on inhaled insulin
November 18, 2007Mannkind Corp. is betting that its inhalable insulin will be a hit with diabetes patients despite Pfizer's decision to stop selling a similar product. Mannkind Chief Executive Alfred E. Mann said his inhalable insulin is medically superior to the...
Patients receive HIV-infected transplants
November 13, 2007Four transplant recipients in Chicago contracted HIV from a high-risk donor whose infection went undetected, hospital officials said. Health officials said the infections were the first documented cases of HIV being transmitted by donated organs in...
Hospitals upsize for hefty patients
November 12, 2007U.S. hospitals are upsizing gowns, beds and scales to accommodate an increasing number of supersized patients. The extra-large equipment boosts comfort and safety for the 1 in 5 Americans who are obese., the Detroit Free Press reported Sunday. ...
Minority transplant patients fare well
November 02, 2007Minority patients treated at top U.S. medical centers for liver transplantation fared as well as whites, a study found. The study, published in Hepatology, determined that racial disparity linked to liver transplantation survival was not evident when...
Walking avoids prostate cancer bone loss
October 30, 2007Prostate cancer patients are not routinely advised to exercise, but a U.S. study found walking prevents bone loss caused from prostate cancer treatment. Lead author Paula Chiplis of The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore said men with prostate cancer...