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Tag: "anemia" at medical news

Epogen – Overuse Dangerou

...her dosage of Epogen, the recommended medicine for anemia causes deadly side effects mainly for the kidney dialysis patient. The drug when used more than the prescribed dosage caused: Increased Mortality, Serious Cardiovascular and Thromboembolic Events, like strokes and heart attacks. The FDA has asked t...

‘For-profit Dialysis Centers’ in the Spotlight Over Anti-anemia Drug Overdoe

...d out to the patient, which also includes the anti anemia drug epoetin. According to this study conducted, Epoetin therapy accounted for 1.8 billion dollars of medical drug expenditure in 2004. The records of 159,522 adult Medicare-eligible, end-stage renal disease patients from the US Renal Data Syste...

Popular Anemia Drug Dodges The Dagger

...nearly a million Americans a year, mainly to treat anemia from kidney disease or cancer chemotherapy. Last...lung cancer patients that compared Aranesp with an anemia drug it was developing because of an unexpected number of deaths in at least some of the treatment g...

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

Iron deficiency anemia is the commonest medical disorder in pregnancy, ad...al programmes targeted at control and treatment of anemia during pregnancy, the success has not been as anticipated, since the majority of women present late....

Bed Nets - A Formidable Weapon Against Malaria In Africa

...en who are pregnant and results in severe maternal anemia and reduced birth weight in children."But we simply didn't have the definitive answers because a lot of the clinical trials themselves were not large enough to be able to answer this question." This latest study drew on the results of four earlier ...

Abnormality in the Red Blood Count Cell Poses High Risks

...et out to evaluate the prevalence of pre-operative anemia and polycythemia and their effects on 30-day post-operative outcomes for veterans. Wu and his team mined data from the Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program to conduct their work, looking at medical data of 310,311 veterans a...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...fected person can die from cerebral hemorrhages or anemia that are consequences of red cell infection. Natural products such as quinine, extracted from the cinchona tree, and leaves from the artemisinin shrub were the only options available to treat the infection until World War II, when both Germany and...

Too Much of Iron During Pregnancy is Harmful

...university study. Iron is often given to combat anemia in pregnancy but many women take extra iron. Anemi...carry normal amounts of oxygen. Common symptoms of anemia include feeling tired, fainting, or breathless. The condition is often associated with low birth w...

Capsule Endoscopy is Effective in Diagnosing GI Problems Children

...unexplained abdominal pain, GI bleeding, diarrhea, anemia and weight loss. All were able to swallow the capsule easily. Abnormal findings were seen in 25 (74 percent) of the patients. Four patients who were originally diagnosed as not having Crohns disease using conventional radiographic and endoscopic s...

A Non-profit Drug Firms Injection to Fight Kala Azar Included in WHOs Model List

...y sandflies and causes chronic fever, weight loss, anemia and spleen and liver and anemia. With approximately 500,000 new cases occurring annually worldwide, visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala azar, primarily afflicts the rural poor. Left untreated, VL is nearly always fatal. VL currently occurs i...

New Pill to Suppress Menstrual Bleeding Indefinitely

...bleeding and that it triggers health problems from anemia to epilepsy in many women. They note women have been tinkering with nature since the advent of birth control pills and now endure as many as 450 periods, compared with 50 or so in the days when women spent most of their fertile years pregnant or brea...

Late Clamping of Umbilical Cord may Reduce Anemia in Children

...ause of the beneficial effect on the prevention of anemia in children, says de Paco Matallana. The author points out that the results of her thesis show that there are no differences in the hemogram or the general biochemical profile in the umbilical vein in the cases of early and late clamping. Moreove...

FDA Approves Expanded Use for Surgical Sealant

...nt in the control group. Adverse events, such as anemia and graft site infection, were generally mild and occurred at about the same frequencies in the Evicel-treated group and the control group. FDA originally licensed the predecessor of Evicel (Crosseal) in 2003 for use during liver surgery. Evicel is...

Anemia Drug Overused and Could Hasten Death in Some, Say Experts

... and Drug Administration has said that the popular anemia drug could indeed be overused. In some cases it co...ren. Officially, the drug is used only to treat anemia and avoid blood transfusions; its makers have not proved to FDA's satisfaction that it restores vigo...

Effective Treatment for Malaria Control

...of low birth weight by 29 percent, and the risk of anemia by 10 percent. The effect did not vary by sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance levels (range, 19 percent-26 percent). Efficacy of IPT with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine was lower among women using insecticide-treated nets. Three trials compared 2-dose ...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...ed with a wide variety of complications, including anemia (low red blood cell count, or red blood cells that are deficient in oxygen-transporting hemoglobin), nerve pain, bone disease, death and cardiovascular disease. Most patients with chronic kidney disease die of complications from heart disease rather ...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...ed with a wide variety of complications, including anemia (low red blood cell count, or red blood cells that are deficient in oxygen-transporting hemoglobin), nerve pain, bone disease, death and cardiovascular disease. Most patients with chronic kidney disease die of complications from heart disease rather ...

Analysis of Hemoglobin Level Control in Dialysis Patients

..., needs to have an adequate hemoglobin level. Thus anemia correction is a very significant part of the dialy.... This treatment has been a major break through in anemia treatment in chronic kidney disease (CKD). This drug is surrounded by controversy regarding its apt ...

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