Sentences with phrase «high mortality rates at»

A combination of several factors, unique to this area contribute to the high mortality rates at these facilities.

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

In July 2009, a month after he became Health Secretary, Burnham launched an independent inquiry chaired by the QC Robert Francis into unusually high mortality rates at Stafford Hospital.

High mortality rates at its Fiji poultry unit, the second largest of its Asia - Pacific division businesses, will slice as much as 20 per cent off the pretax profit of this unit, it said.

Not exact matches

In the District of Columbia, concerns about the high maternal mortality rate — in 2014, it stood at about 40.7 deaths per 100,000 births, according to the analysis by United Health Foundation, substantially exceeding the U.S. rate and those of neighboring Virginia and Maryland — have periodically sparked talk of a review committee, but not enough to push a measure through.

Given the risk of early stage investing and venture capital's famously high mortality rate of portfolio companies, it is imperative that fund managers earn high return multiples at these more modest M&A exit values to offset casualties and drive attractive returns.

For lower socioeconomic women and often black women, yes, a marriageable man is one who has a job, but drug use and trafficking, under - or unemployment, the high rates of men in jail and the higher mortality rates for black men in their community put them at marital disadvantage — there are fewer men in their dating pool (And as I addressed previously, strong black women are often seen as being a detriment to black men's masculinity.)

Until women and their families start expecting respect and look at themselves as the main player in childbirth we will continue to have higher maternal mortality rates than 33 other countries (according to WHO) and higher low birth weight rates than 23 other countries.

Perinatal mortality rates for hospital births of low risk women are similar to outcomes of planned homebirth in general, but the maternal morbidity at planned hospital births is much higher.

And this paper in the BMJ suggest low risk moms with midwives at home have a higher mortality rate than all the high risk moms in hospitals.

Mothers who give birth at home are as concerned with the under - reported and grossly high maternal mortality rate in hospitals as the infant mortality rate.

A new study suggests an entirely different explanation: Dutch midwives have unacceptably high rates of perinatal mortality both at home and in the hospital.

The high black infant mortality rate: Black babies are dying at twice the rate (in some place, nearly triple) the rate of white babies.

Researchers reported high overall perinatal mortality in a study of home birth in Australia, 35 qualifying that low risk home births in Australia had good outcomes but that high risk births gave rise to a high rate of avoidable death at home.36 Two prospective studies in North America found positive outcomes for home birth, 23 24 but the studies were not of sufficient size to provide relatively stable perinatal death rates.

The mortality rate at home is higher, for the mother and especially the baby.

B / c they look at infant mortality rate... b / c they don't know the leading causes of death that lend to our higher maternal mortality rate... b / c of Ina May, Ricki Lake, Sarah Buckley, mothering dot com, childbirth connection... b / c of the Johnson and Davis BMJ article... b / c they are told to «look at the Netherlands!»

To refute this obvious mistruth, she is pointing out what the science actually says — that the perinatal mortality rate for low risk women cared for by midwives, whether at home or at hospital, is higher than the perinatal mortality rate for high risk women cared for by obstetricians in the hospital.

On the other hand, for a first time mother with no complications at the start of labor, the Birthplace Study found a nearly 3 x greater risk of intrapartum / neonatal loss, and the data from the Netherlands suggests that although the rates aren't high enough to affect the overall perinatal mortality rate, there are greater risks out of hospital if a complication does occur.

Around 12 percent of births at home happen because of an unforeseen emergency, and many of them, MacDorman says, have negative outcomes — hence a higher mortality rate, tipping the scales against midwives.

The Stafford Hospital scandal concerns poor care and high mortality rates amongst patients at the Stafford Hospital, Stafford, England, in the late 2000s

Mortality rates among adults 18 - 64 have increased every year of Obamacare except 2012 and are now higher than at any time during the 2002 - 2010 period.

Simply put, the mortality rate is not as high as Ebola and the manner at which projected internationally is not as that of Ebola, that is why they have been a bit slow about this, he added.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a series of initiatives aimed at addressing a disturbingly high rate of maternal mortality among black women.

Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those from central and eastern Europe where major delays are still observed and where cancer mortality rates tend to be higher as a result.»

However, the study finds about a 5 percentage - point increase in mortality at hospitals that have relatively high rates of spending on «downstream» nursing facilities.

«When we look at pandemic strains of influenza that have high mortality rates, one of the best adaptations of those pandemic viruses is their ability to infect these alveolar epithelial cells,» explained researcher Amber Cardani, PhD.

Your look at parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction, speculates that genetics were the cause of high mortality rates in...

«All patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»

«Emergency department crowding is clearly linked to worse patient care and worse outcomes, including higher mortality rates, higher rates of complications, and errors,» said Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, professor of emergency medicine and health policy at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Although CRC affects all racial and ethnic groups, African Americans carry an excessive burden of disease with the highest overall incidence, highest incidence of advanced stage at presentation, highest mortality, and lowest survival rates compared to any other ethnic or racial group.

Although various treatment options such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy are available, the mortality rate remains extremely high, so efforts are increasingly being targeted at improving its detection and treatment.

Its mortality rate in African American men is the highest in the world — at least twice that for white males with prostate cancer.

The mortality rate for type A aortic dissection surgery remains high at 19 %, but risk for certain complications such as pneumonia and reoperation are significantly lower.

These high - quality hospitals, which had lower spending, had mortality rates that were less than half of what we saw at the low - quality hospitals.

One of the fastest expanding types of cancer in the developed world, malignant melanoma has a high mortality rate — which is one reason that researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy were so anxious to follow up on the lung cancer studies.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

The mortality rate is extremely high at around 40 % for patients with MDR - TB, and 60 % for patients with XDR - TB.

The high mortality rate of the disease, estimated at around 60 % in the most recent outbreak, made it one of the most deadly infectious diseases in the world.

At ten years, mortality rates were similar in patients with unrecognised and recognised MI (49 % and 51 %, respectively) and significantly higher than in those with no MI (30 %)(p < 0.001).

J. Marc Simard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Yale University and Massachusetts General Hospital, found that Cirara, an investigational drug, powerfully reduced brain swelling and death in patients who had suffered a type of large stroke called malignant infarction, which normally carries a high mortality rate.

At issue is child mortality in developing nations with high rates of HIV infection.

More than 11,000 deaths occurred as a result of that outbreak, with a high mortality rate of the disease estimated at around 60 per cent.

Although of course there are a number of caveats since mice can be cured from cancer at higher rates, they don't suffer from some of our diseases, they are sensitive to being handled (if grabbing them can shorten their lifespan through stress, the mouse version of standard human medical care may do the same), so I guess that increases in maximum lifespan are indeed the only reliable indicator that an intervention is impacting age - related mortality.

Once hospitalized for heart failure, mortality rates at 30 days, 1 year, and 5 years were as high as 10 %, 22 %, and 42 % in patients from four United States communities (1).

Veterinary researchers at the Virginia - Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech have helped identify the origin and possible evolution of an emerging swine virus with high mortality rates that has already spread to at least 17 states.

However, there is conflicting evidence, variably pronouncing there is no relationship at all, that only women suffer a higher mortality rate or even that lefties actually live longer.

Women respond more slowly Women are more likely than men to delay seeking treatment at the first signs of a heart attack, a behavior pattern that has puzzled cardiologists and contributes to the higher mortality rate from heart attack among women.

If serum cholesterol is healthiest below 160 mg / dl, then formula fed babies have excellent blood lipids despite a high disease and mortality rate, but breastfed babies are already in trouble at age one month and are suffering a shocking dyslipidemia at age six months, despite excellent health.

When we map out liver cancer mortality and animal product consumption only in areas with high rates of hepatitis B infection (18 % and higher), we should see cancer rates rise as animal product consumption increases — at least, according to Campbell.

Among various food items, cow's milk and cheese had the highest correlation with incidence and mortality rate of these cancers» Children are at high risk «Among the exposure of humans, especially prepubertal children, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in children.