Automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, are designed to save lives, but a new study finds that some 1,150 deaths over 15 years were tied to devices that failed to work — and nearly one in four failures was caused by battery problems.
Bad batteries in AEDs tied to cardiac deaths
Posted in Health by healthnutter 157 days agoAfter dozens of deaths, drop-side cribs outlawed
Posted in Health by healthnutter 418 days ago
More than 30 infants and toddlers have died in the past decade and millions of the cribs have been recalled.
Colon cancer deaths could make big drop
Posted in Health by healthnutter 791 days ago
The colon cancer death rate in 2020 could be half of what it was in 2000, due to better screening and treatment, says a new report from the American Cancer Society.
U.S. swine flu cases top 21,000 as deaths rise
Posted in Health by healthnutter 962 days ago
America's count of swine flu cases has risen to 21,449 cases and deaths have nearly doubled to 87. The continued spread signals “something different” is happening with the new H1N1 flu strain.
U.S. swine flu deaths hit double digits
Posted in Health by healthnutter 992 days ago
Swine flu forced Christina Huitron to make a choice no mother should ever have to make. On Wednesday she told doctors to take her 21-year-old son off life support, making Marcos Sanchez the nation's 10th fatality associated with the new virus.
Mexico closes schools as deaths climb to 149
Posted in Health by healthnutter 1016 days ago
Mexico's government tried Monday to stem the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu as the work week began by urging people to stay home if they have any symptoms of the virus.
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