Cause of Death, Not Breastfeeding? The Bias That Won't Die
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Dr. PollyPosted
Tue 20 Apr 2010 7:09pm1 Comment
, rather NOT breast-feeding, is now officially linked to death. Forget mere ear infections and bouts of gastro-intestinal distress. We're talking The Great Beyond. That Good Night... be latched to breasts for a year or else risk disease and now undoubtedly death), persisted through the frequencies of breast-feeding and subsequent lamentation that more women don't
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Obesity as a Cause of Death Recorded on Death Certificates
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Bruce FriedmanPosted
Tue 23 Feb 2010 12:00am
The idea has not previously occurred to me but recording obesity as the primary or contributing cause of death on death certificates could be a way to cast greater... public health expert said people often did not rea-lise obesity was linked with many serious conditions. This shows doctors are increasingly recognising obesity as a cause of deathRead on »
Clozapine: Causing Nearly A Death per Week in the United Kingdom
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Duane Sherry, M.S.Posted
Wed 25 Mar 2009 3:14pm
The drug, Clozapine is causing nearly a death each week in the United Kingdom.
From The Times:
March 24, 2009
Hundreds of deaths linked to schizophrenic drug clozapine
David Rose
Fifty people die each year and hundreds more suffer serious side-effects as the result of taking powerful tranquillisers prescribed by the NHS, The Times has learnt.
Data
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Dementia Not Consistently Considered as Cause of Death
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Carol Bradley BursackPosted
Thu 14 May 2009 4:31pm
Both of my parents' death certificates cited the cause of death as organic brain disease, which basically means dementia. They each had dementia, though each of them... of a World War II brain injury. Something went wrong in the surgery, and he came out of that surgery totally demented.
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Smoking, high BP main causes for deaths in US
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Invisalign topdentistPosted
Mon 15 Jun 2009 6:27pm
Washington (IANS):- Smoking, high blood pressure and being overweight are the leading preventable causes of death in the US says a new study.
Researchers from Harvard... of these risks made us pause,” said Goodarz Danaei, doctoral student at HSPH and study co-author.
“To have hundreds of thousands of premature deathscaused by these modifiable risk
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Smoking, high BP main causes for deaths in US
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Invisalign topdentistPosted
Mon 15 Jun 2009 6:27pm1 Comment
Washington (IANS):- Smoking, high blood pressure and being overweight are the leading preventable causes of death in the US says a new study.
Researchers from Harvard... for many of these risks made us pause,” said Goodarz Danaei, doctoral student at HSPH and study co-author.
“To have hundreds of thousands of premature deathscausedRead on »
Smoking, high BP main causes for deaths in US
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Invisalign topdentistPosted
Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:04pm
Washington (IANS):- Smoking, high blood pressure and being overweight are the leading preventable causes of death in the US says a new study.
Researchers from Harvard... of these risks made us pause,” said Goodarz Danaei, doctoral student at HSPH and study co-author.
“To have hundreds of thousands of premature deathscaused by these modifiable risk
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Medication-related Problems: 5th-leading cause of death in elderly
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Brian WolstenholmePosted
Wed 10 Jun 2009 6:43pm15 Comments
If medication-related problems were classified as an actual disease- they would rank as the 5th leading cause of death in this country. It is estimated that up to 50% of all medication-related problems are preventable. FIFTY PERCENT! It begs the question, then, why don’t we do something about this?
We hear during every major election season
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Alzheimer's disease supersedes diabetes as sixth-leading cause of death in the United States
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Bob DeMarcoPosted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 2:07pm
clipped from www.actionalz.org
Alzheimer's disease is now the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers... be addressed now.
"The CDC's announcement that Alzheimer's disease jumped from the seventh to the sixth-leading cause of death should serve as a wake-up call to the nation
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