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Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo

...eatment. The approach here would be more a hormone blocker rather than chemotherapy. Women have reason to dread chemotherapy. Chemo is a sledgehammer that comes down heavily on all rapidly dividing cells—whether they are out-of-control cancerous cells or healthy ones that naturally grow quickly, like those ...

Missing teeth associated with blocked arteries

... is age followed by tooth loss and calcium channel blocker drug use. Plaque build up in major arteries is usually a precursor to heart attacks. Dentists have always advised the replacement of missing teeth as soon as possible. Besides being hard for chewing, the non-replacement of missing teeth is also imp...

Importance Of Early Diagnosis And Treatment For Muscular Dystrophy Patients

...ars, 31 boys were started on ACE inhibitor or beta blocker therapy. During the follow-up two patients remained stable with their dilated cardiomyopathy, eight showed improvement and 19 normalized both heart size and function. The authors, from the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Texas Children's Hospit...

Evidence against use of Beta blockers as first choice in the treatment of primary hypertension

...Cochrane Library and PubMed were searched for beta blocker treatment in patients with primary hypertension. Data were then entered into the Cochrane Collaboration Review Manager package and were summarised in meta-analyses. 13 randomised controlled trials were included in a meta-analysis comparing treatment ...

Treatment May Be Possible For Degenerative Brain And Spinal Cord Disease

...pa, Fla., show KDI to be a potent and wide-ranging blocker of glutamate’s damaging chemical processes. It therefore has a tremendous ability to protect the brain and spinal cord from cell death and even enable re-growth. Human clinical trials are expected to begin as soon as next year. No toxic side effects...

Drug Keeps The Weight Off

...nabant (Acomplia) a selective cannabinoid receptor blocker (CB1), can help obese patients keep weight off // . Supplementation with 20 milligrams of rimonabant a day resulted in a significant decrease in body weight and waist circumference -- a marker of cardiovascularly dangerous visceral fat. It also impro...

Better Treatment For Hypertension

...nsive patients either received the calcium channel blocker amlodipine with or without the ACE inhibitor perin...ker and diuretic than those on the calcium channel blocker and ACE inhibitor. There was a highly significant risk-reduction of about 15 percent in those assign...

New genital gel could empower women against the AIDS epidemic

...agues are enthused by their finding of a new viral blocker that prevents the virus from burying into human cells. This blocker, in its initial testing in monkeys was found to curb sexual transmission of HIV between monkeys. The new study has backed the belief that microbicides - chemicals that hobble viruses...

Blood pressure control with ACE inhibitor or diuretic?

... with a diuretic and then adding a calcium channel blocker or an ACE inhibitor. Reid concluded that further research will lead to a situation where there will be specific recommendations for various groups of patients like the elderly, the diabetics, and the ethnic groups. He also stated that irrespective of...

Calcium-blocker delays atherosclerosis than beta-blockers

...re, but act in different ways. The calcium-channel blocker decreases the rate at which calcium flows into cells and so interferes with the contraction of heart muscles. The beta-blockers make the heart beat more slowly. The researchers measured the development of atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries in ...

Outcome of common medications

...rs conclude that the conventional wisdom that beta blocker therapy is associated with substantial risks of depressive symptoms, fatigue and sexual dysfunction is not supported from data from clinical trials. The risks of these adverse effects should be put in the context of these medications. In the end, the...

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