Heart failure patients overestimate life expectancy.
Ambulatory patients with heart failure tend to substantially overestimate their life expectancy, especially those who are younger or who have severe disease, investigators reported. Their misperception could "fundamentally influence medical decision making regarding medications, devices, transplantation, and end-of-life care," said Dr. Larry A. Allen of the Duke...

Anti-HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years.
HIV patients taking a cocktail of drugs called combination antiretroviral therapy (CART) have seen a 13-year boost in life expectancy, according to a new study by the Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Collaboration. Data was compiled from 14 studies in Europe and North America. The study found improved survival...

Heart failure patients greatly overestimate life expectancy.
Ambulatory patients with heart failure tend to substantially overestimate their life expectancy, especially those who are younger or who have severe disease, according to the findings of a survey, Their misperception could "fundamentally influence medical decision making regarding medications, devices, transplantation, and end-of-life care," said Dr. Larry...

Apology should help close gap in life expectancy.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The apology to the indigenous stolen generations should lead to heightened efforts to close the 17-year gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children, NSWNA General Secretary Brett Holmes says. He says the NSWNA supported the apology as a means of moving...

Life expectancy no better in RA patients, despite new therapies.
Rheumatoid arthritis patients have not experienced a decline in mortality, despite dramatically increased life expectancy in the general population and newer, more aggressive arthritis treatments. This stagnation is contributing to a widening mortality gap between patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their unaffected counterparts in the general...

Life expectancy must guide prostate cancer treatment.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HOLLYWOOD, FLA. -- Updated National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines stress expectant management--surveillance only with no other treatment--for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer. "We think it is more prudent to take into account a man's life expectancy than just to look at his prostate...

Bad economics & medicine.
ITEM: In an article entitled "5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System" in the Washington Post for November 23, 2008, Shannon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel write that the United States lags behind "many developed countries on virtually every health statistic you can name. Life expectancy, at birth? We rank...

Consider life expectancy in planning prostate ca therapy.
HOLLYWOOD, FLA.-- Updated National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines stress expectant management--surveillance only with no other treatment--for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer. "We think it is more prudent to take into account a man's life expeectancy than just to look at his prostate cancer when it comes to...

Life expectancy is down by ten years since independence.
"The single greatest threat to the expansion of human capabilities in Namibia today remains the HIV/Aids epidemic, which, through its impact on mortality, is undermining human development objectives," said a report recently released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Trends in Human Development and Human Poverty in Namibia....

Life expectancy and population growth.
Byline: Francis N. Tolentino LAST week we shared with our readers how uncontrolled population growth greatly affects the people's lives. Everyone, especially young people, is deprived of many of the basic social services that the government ought to provide them because the latter's resources are extremely lacking....