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TWO NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS JOIN DRIVE4COPD MOVEMENT TO RAISE AWARENESS OF NATION’S FOURTH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH by Karen Bastille Health Maven

Posted Wed 16 Mar 2011 3:51pm and the COPD Alliance – have joined the mission to raise awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). With these additions, the country’s leading COPD groups are part... and debilitating disease. About COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – also known as chronic bronchitis and emphysema – makes it harder to breathe because less air is able Read on »

Cause of Death, Not Breastfeeding? The Bias That Won't Die by Dr. Polly Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Tue 20 Apr 2010 7:09pm

1 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 Read on »

Obesity as a Cause of Death Recorded on Death Certificates by Bruce Friedman Patient Expert

Posted 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 death Read on »

Can Advair cause death in asthmatics? by Neil Kao Medical Doctor

Posted Sat 13 Jun 2009 12:26am obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ) and using a combination corticosteroid-LABA inhaler. Question: is this medication associated with high adverse outcomes in those with COPD (which...-agonists in stable COPD: a systematic review." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18460518?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEnThere was no increased risk of deaths. Again, I am Read on »

Clozapine: Causing Nearly A Death per Week in the United Kingdom by Duane Sherry, M.S. Patient Expert

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 Read on »

Dementia Not Consistently Considered as Cause of Death by Carol Bradley Bursack Posted 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. Read more about dementia as a cause of death: Read on »

Smoking, high BP main causes for deaths in US by Invisalign topdentist Posted 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 deaths caused by these modifiable risk Read on »

Smoking, high BP main causes for deaths in US by Invisalign topdentist Posted Mon 15 Jun 2009 6:27pm

1 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 deaths caused Read on »

Smoking, high BP main causes for deaths in US by Invisalign topdentist Posted 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 deaths caused by these modifiable risk Read on »