Pancreatic Cancer in Canada: Incidence and Mortality Trends from 1992 to 2005 by Robert Flook, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten

“…BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth-ranking cause of death among all major malignancies in Canada and has the lowest five-year survival rate.…”
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Myocarditis and neutrophil-mediated vascular leakage but not cytokine storm associated with fatal murine leptospirosisResearch in context by Stylianos Papadopoulos, David Hardy, Frédérique Vernel-Pauillac, Magali Tichit, Ivo G. Boneca, Catherine Werts

“…Strikingly, the main cause of death was myocarditis, an overlooked complication of human leptospirosis. …”
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Prognostic value of intraductal carcinoma subtypes and postoperative radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer by Fang Cao, Qing Li, Tianyu Xiong, Yingjie Zheng, Tian Zhang, Mulan Jin, Liming Song, Nianzeng Xing, Yinong Niu

“…In addition, patients with IDC-P(+) pattern 2 were more likely to experience biochemical recurrence and death. Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that pattern 2 was a risk factor for biochemical recurrence and death. …”
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Sickle Cell Anemia Patients Display an Intricate Cellular and Serum Biomarker Network Highlighted by TCD4+CD69+ Lymphocytes, IL-17/MIP-1β, IL-12/VEGF, and IL-10/IP-10 Axis by Nadja Pinto Garcia, Alexander Leonardo S. Júnior, Geyse Adriana S. Soares, Thainá Cristina C. Costa, Alicia Patrine C. dos Santos, Allyson Guimarães Costa, Andréa Monteiro Tarragô, Rejane Nina Martins, Flávia do Carmo Leão Pontes, Emerson Garcia de Almeida, Erich Vinícius de Paula, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, Adriana Malheiro

“…High expression of TLR2 in monocytes and VLA-4 in TCD8+ lymphocytes and high levels of MIP-1β and RANTES appear to be relevant in high death risk conditions. The high reticulocytosis and high death risk conditions present common correlations, and there seems to be a balance by the Th2 profile.…”
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Learning to Live Through Loss: Understanding Men Who Grieve by Carolyn S. Wilken

“… FCS-2266, a 4-page fact sheet by Carolyn Wilken, is one in a series of six publications dealing with grief, death, and loss. This document explores the ways that men grieve and offers suggestions for helping and supporting the grieving widower or father. …”
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Des choses étranges by Gabriel Gatti, Carolina Kobelinsky

“…It reports on a collective approach in progress in the context of a research programme questioning how to recount the life and death of those who “don’t count”.…”
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Comparison of the CAMI-NSTEMI and GRACE Risk Model for Predicting In-Hospital Mortality in Chinese Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients by Peng Wang, Hongliang Cong, Ying Zhang, Yujie Liu

“…The primary endpoint was in-hospital death. For each patient, the predicted mortality was calculated according to GRM and CRM, respectively. …”
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Implementation of Portable Ultrasound for Heart Disease Detection Using Cloud Computing-Based Machine Learning by Riyanto Sigit, Rika Rokhana, Setiawardhana, Taufiq Hidayat, Anwar, Jovan Josafat Jaenputra

“… Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death globally, including in Indonesia. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, resulting in a significant number of fatalities. …”
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Chaotic and Quasi-periodic Regimes in the Covid-19 Mortality Data by Ekrem Aydıner, Erkan Yılmaz

“…Global disasters such as pandemics not only cause deaths but also bring other global catastrophic problems. …”
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Health-economic evaluation of the outpatient, inpatient, and public health sector in Germany: Insights from the first three COVID-19 waves. by Afschin Gandjour

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>During the first three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, the inpatient sector (ICUs) made the largest contribution to preventing deaths while also incurring the highest costs.…”
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Up-Regulation of Endothelin Receptors Induced by Cigarette Smoke — Involvement of MAPK in Vascular and Airway Hyper-Reactivity by Yaping Zhang, Lars Edvinsson, Cang-Bao Xu

“…Cigarette smoke exposure is well known to cause cardiovascular and airway diseases, both of which are leading causes of death and disability in the world. However, the molecular mechanisms that link cigarette smoke to cardiovascular and airway diseases are not fully understood. …”
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Health Experts’ Perspectives on Barriers, Facilitators, and Needs for Improvement of Hospital Care in the Dying Phase by Sukhvir Kaur, Kathleen Boström, Anneke Ullrich, Nikolas Oubaid, Karin Oechsle, Holger Schulz, Raymond Voltz, Kerstin Kremeike

“…Globally, hospitals are an important place in end-of-life care and most frequent place of death in Germany (47%), but at the same time, the least preferred one—both for patients and their informal caregivers. …”
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Immunotherapeutic Potential of Lactobacillus Species as Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Cancer Immunotherapy by Renukadevi J, Sam Helinto J, Prena D

“…This review explores the immunotherapeutic potential of Lactobacillus species via adjuvant therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), such as programmed cell death protein-1, programmed death ligand-1, and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 inhibitors, which have revolutionized cancer treatment by enhancing T-cell-mediated antitumor immunity. …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Sepsis and Associated Organ Dysfunction: A Promising Future or Blind Alley? by Jan Horák, Lukáš Nalos, Vendula Martínková, Jan Beneš, Milan Štengl, Martin Matějovič

“…Sepsis, newly defined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection, is the most common cause of death in ICUs and one of the principal causes of death worldwide. …”
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Euthanasia as a professional dilemma in nursing students by María Verónica Aveiga Hidalgo, Clara Eliza Pozo Hernández, Olga Mireya Alonso Pico, Erika Marcela León Ravelo

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> the World Health Organization defines euthanasia as the deliberate action carried out by a person with the intention of causing the painless death of another subject, or not preventing death from natural causes, in case of terminal illness or irreversible coma.…”
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Costs of surgical futility in emergency laparotomy by C.L. Downey, D.G. Jayne

“…Background: Surgical futility has been defined as death within 72 h of emergency laparotomy. It is associated with patient distress, moral injury and opportunity costs. …”
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B-cell multicentric lymphoma in a creole mare - a case report by T.G. Cristo, L. Marian, T.C. Valente, J.J.S. Sá, E.V. Rocha, N.C.C.A. Fernandes, C.S.C. Borges, R.A. Casagrande

“…The animal showed progressive worsening, not responding to therapy, and death occurred during the second clinical evaluation. …”
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Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Children and Adults: What is New? by Galal E. Nagib Elkilany, Mustafa A. AL-Qbandi, Khaled A. Sayed, Ibrahim Kabbash

“…Our objective was to provide a research article of detailed descriptions of the incidence, causes, outcomes, related risk factors, and new echocardiographic criteria of risk of death from DCM. Our results showed that independent risk factors at DCM diagnosis for subsequent death or transplantation in children cohorts were older age, congestive heart failure, lower left ventricular ejection fraction (EF ≤ 25%), low global strain, significant mitral valve incompetence, pulmonary hypertension, diastolic dysfunction, right ventricular involvement, and cause of DCM (p < 0.001 for all). …”
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Connecting Cerebral White Matter Lesions and Hypertensive Target Organ Damage by Cristina Sierra, Alfons López-Soto, Antonio Coca

“…Stroke is the second leading cause of death and the number one cause of disability worldwide and over 80% of strokes occur in the elderly. …”
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Moral Permissibility of Euthanasia- A Bangladesh Context by Nilufa Yasmin

“…The "end of life" issue is related to euthanasia should be legally acceptable under specific circumstances, such as when a patient is terminally sick, death is imminent, and treatment is unsuitable and ineffective. …”
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