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(MedPage Today) -- Healthy, older seniors can act as living kidney donors, with overall survival among recipients similar to that seen with younger donors, a study suggested.

(MedPage Today) -- Laryngeal cancer treatment has shifted toward primary surgery for early-stage cases and away from it in advanced cases, with mixed effects on survival, a national analysis found.

Cardiac rehabilitation can improve the ability of the heart to return quickly to a normal rate after exercise, and that in turn can double the chances of survival.

(MedPage Today) -- The more minority trauma patients a hospital cares for, the higher the mortality risk for those patients, a national study found.

The U.S. now trails 40 other countries with a newborn death rate of 4.3 per 1,000 births.

People who are married and who undergo heart bypass surgery are more than twice as likely as their unmarried counterparts to be alive after 15 years, a new study indicates.

(MedPage Today) -- Patients who have a cardiac or respiratory arrest in an intensive care unit (ICU) appear to have better chances of surviving than those in the general hospital population, researchers found.

Our irrational fear of sharks -- and growing appetite for them -- continues to threaten their survival

(MedPage Today) -- Minimizing pauses in chest compressions before a defibrillator shock for cardiac arrest may maximize survival, researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- At one year there were no significant survival differences among high-risk patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement compared with those who had surgical repair, but there were significant differences in adverse events at 30 days, according to results of the PARTNER trial.