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Angioplasty Should be the Standard

...plasty services and they have to be transferred to another facility for treatment. Research has shown heart ...re first admitted or treatment with angioplasty at another hospital that offered the service, if they could be transferred to the new hospital within two hours...

Early Detection of Lung Cancer

...p to five millimeters to be followed up with using another scan in a year rather than further treatment. Only 9 percent of the participants underwent further investigation of suspicious lesions using a higher-resolution CT scan with or without PET scanning. In this group, 23 percent were found to have lung c...

Better Drug for Heart Transplant

...evious studies have shown everolimus combined with another drug reduced the rejection and risk of infection i...igned to receive one of two doses of everolimus or another drug, azathioprine, after having a heart transplant. The drugs were given once a day in combination ...

Benefits of Eating Whole Grains, Fruits and Vegetables

Here's another reason to eat healthier. A new study finds whole grains, fruits and vegetables will decrease your risk of heart disease and your overall risk of dying. However, the study also reports these foods do not decrease //your chance of having a stroke. The...

Extra hormone found to cut appetite by a third

... would not work in obese people because studies of another appetite-suppressing hormone,// leptin, had proved disappointing. "We had to do a second trial to see if obese people were as sensitive" to the hormone, said researchers. The answer: "Yes, they are. They're just as sensitive as thin people." In a s...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...muscle and fat cells. The high sugar also inhibits another hormone, glucagon, which ordinarily tells the body to burn its stored fuel. Blood sugar plunges. So much is stored so fast that within two or three hours, levels may be lower than they were before the meal. Suddenly, the body needs more fuel. But be...

A voice saving surgery

...ck -- those procedures fail to work, and they need another alternative. A surgeon in Germany developed the procedure....

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

...ay 22 also lived an average of almost 50 days. In another experiment, the researchers reversed the dietary restrictions and started some of the flies on a restricted diet, and then on day 14 or day 22 switched them to a fully fed diet. Mortality rates dropped in the flies switched to a fully fed diet. Those...

Weight-loss Products Dangerous

...s in the patients. One of the 12 patients died and another needed a liver transplant. The remaining 10 patients recovered after they stopped taking the supplements. Researchers say more needs to be done to educate the general public about the potential dangers of herbal supplements. ...

Black tea said to lower cholesterol

...earchers said. Separately, scientists also tested another group to rule out the effect of caffeine. In that group, 12 of the original 15 individuals were given water-flavored-like tea with caffeine levels similar to what is found in tea. Those who had regular tea saw their LDL levels drop about 11 percent c...

New Drug for Diabetes

...oduce (type 2 diabetes). Researchers, are studying another hormone -- amylin -- to aid in the treatment of diabetes. Amylin is a hormone secreted with insulin by the beta cells in the pancreas. The drug, called SYMLIN, is a man-made version of amylin. Specifically, the drug would be for diabetics -- type 1 o...

New Liver Tumor Treatment

...al was just over a year. Researchers say there is another benefit to this type of treatment. This treatment is local, Dr. Vogl says. "With local chemotherapy, the patients have no pain and don’t lose their hair. This treatment allows us to be very aggressive in attacking the tumor, while maintaining a good ...

New Test for HIV Patients

... a similar way towards HIV viral-load measurement, another test required to assess the success of HIV treatment."...

Some pets found to be SARS carriers

...otten the virus from animals that were infected by another source.// "You might want to quarantine the pets as well as the people," suggested Dr. Robert Shope, an expert on emerging diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. "If it's been shown that the virus can transmit from cat to ...

Aspirin usage linked with pancreatic cancer

...tic cancer, or what makes it so deadly. Obesity is another risk factor, but researchers findings were held regardless of a woman's weight, whether she smoked and whether she had diabetes. According to research one study showed that regular aspirin use may cause pancreatitis -- an inflammation of the pancrea...

Reducing Pain from Knee Surgery

...s after surgery, and 25 milligrams of the drug for another eight days. The remaining patients received a placebo at the same times. Results show patients receiving the NSAID rofecoxib had significantly less pain, consumed fewer painkillers, and had significantly fewer sleep disturbances. Those taking the dr...

Exercise Affects Alertness

...se causes a person to be more engaged and provides another reason for Americans to make physical activity part of their daily regimen."...

Reducing Pain From Knee Surgery

...s after surgery, and 25 milligrams of the drug for another eight days. The remaining patients received a placebo at the same times. Results show patients receiving the NSAID rofecoxib had significantly less pain, consumed fewer painkillers, and had significantly fewer sleep disturbances. Those taking the dr...

An Alternative to Warfarin

...research is needed to confirm its safety. They say another study looking at the drug clopidogrel may provide yet another alternative to warfarin....

Most Women Unprepared for Operative Deliveries

...delivery for the future. Some women said they want another child but they can’t bear to go through a delivery like that again. Thus Researchers say this research shows improvements are needed in preparation for delivery and explanations to the woman after an operative delivery. They say maternal satisfacti...

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