The way that a hospital handles the complications of surgery, not just the rate of those complications, determines the hospital’s surgical death rate, a new study has found.
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Surgical Deaths Linked to Handling of Complications
Former professional football players suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or other memory-related conditions at rates far higher than the general population, a new study commissioned by the National Football League shows.
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Dementia Risk Higher for NFL Players
Fewer women in the United States are dying from breast cancer, but disparities in death rates still exist between whites and blacks, a new report shows.
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Breast Cancer Death Rates Continue to Drop 2% Annually
Bacterial co-infections are common among people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States and probably contributed to their deaths, according to a new federal government study.
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CDC Links Infections With Swine Flu Deaths
If excess weight doesn’t kill you by old age, it could make your life miserable in the form of chronic health problems and impaired mental fitness.
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Obese Middle-Aged Women Face Unhealthy Future
Research shows that these seven foods actually help prevent cancer.
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Super Foods That May Help Prevent Cancer
Research shows that these seven foods actually help prevent cancer.
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Super Foods That Fight Cancer
Treating pregnant women who have even mild gestational diabetes helps reduce the risk of complications in infants and the women’s own risk of blood pressure problems, according to a new study.
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Treat Gestational Diabetes for Baby’s Sake
Only a third of Americans plan to get the swine flu vaccine. One reason: 57% of those at risk of severe flu don’t know it, a Consumer Reports poll shows.
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Only 1/3 in U.S. Plan to Get Swine Flu Vaccine
Streptococcal infections such as strep throat and strep pneumonia don’t appear to make Tourette’s syndrome, tics, or obsessive-compulsive disorder more likely.
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Strep Throat: No Link Seen to Tourette’s Syndrome, Tics, or OCD
