survival

LONDON (AP) -- People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says....

Home-based care can improve some aspects of HIV treatment, according to a systematic literature review, but evidence about its effect on survival is limited.

Metabolic syndrome is an "epidemic waiting to happen" among liver transplant recipients, largely as a result of their increasing likelihood of survival, a review shows.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure.

It could become the first one of these devices to be widely used as a permanent treatment....

Endovascular repair for abdominal aortic aneurysm produced a lower 30-day mortality rate than the more invasive open procedure, an interim report from a multicenter, randomized trial showed.

Pregnancy does not appear to have an adverse effect on renal function or survival among women with functioning kidney transplants, researchers found.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Even in the "oldest old," a little physical activity goes a long way, extending life by at least a few years for people in their mid- to late 80s, Israeli researchers found....

Declining mortality rates in acute MI over a decade suggest healthcare quality initiatives have been effective, researchers said.

Patients undergoing trauma surgery were equally likely to survive whether they were cared for by novice surgeons or a more experienced one, a retrospective cohort study showed.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) incidentally discovered during cardiothoracic surgery does not improve survival and may actually increase stroke risk rather than reducing it as expected, researchers found.