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High Dose Inhaled Corticosteroid Use for COPD Could Cut Risk of Lung Cancer

...imary care settings as is influenza vaccination or cardiac risk factor modification. The potential for benefit is just as great.” Source-Newswie SRM/L...

High-dose Inhaled Corticosteroid Use for COPD Could Cut Risk of Lung Cancer

...imary care settings as is influenza vaccination or cardiac risk factor modification. The potential for benefit is just as great." Source-Eurekalert...

British Scientists Grow Part of a Human Heart from Stem Cells

...are all less complex. Sir Magdi, professor of cardiac surgery at Imperial College London, had been worki...am were at the forefront of tissue engineering for cardiac disease. "If the valves they've engineered prove successful in experimental animals, this could ...

Implications of Statin Therapy in Bladder Cancer Patients

...ment of bladder cancer and is also associated with cardiac disease, hyperlipidemia, and atherosclerosis.// ...r patients with bladder cancer to have concomitant cardiac disease and hyperlipidemia. The 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors...

Obese Heart Patients At Greater Risk

...e to gain from the survival advantagesconferred by cardiac surgery." Dr Yap says their findings are similar to data from Europe, the UK and the United States,indicating that this trend is evident in most of the developed nations. The Medical Journal of Australia is a publication of the Australian Medical...

FDA Announces Voluntary Withdrawal of Pergolide Products

...DA asked Lilly to add valvulopathy (abnormality of cardiac valves) to the warnings section of Permax labeling, at which time a Dear Healthcare Practitioner letter was sent by Lilly. In 2006, the warning was upgraded to a black box warning, the FDA’s strongest form of warning, because of new data concerning r...

Fish Oil in Combination With Statins Cuts Risk of Major Coronary Events

...d no significant difference in the rates of sudden cardiac death or coronary death. The authors concluded, "The frequency of fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction was not significantly reduced (23%) in the EPA group. However, that of non-fatal coronary events (including non-fatal myocardial infarction, ...

Concurrent Health Problems Take Heavy Toll on Seniors

... coronary blood flow, systemic blood pressure, and cardiac function in the cardiovascular system). Functioning in each domain can range from high-functioning, even protective, zones (e.g., high levels of high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol) to severe dysfunction (as in end-stage disease). The research pre...

Campaign To Combat Medical Errors

...rom a life-threatening infection. In the area of cardiac arrests, 80% of deaths occur due to nurses being hesitant to call for help. To overcome this, the help group has set up early-response teams in some ICUs to support the nurses in handling such cases. Ventilator pneumonia is another supportive area ...

New Blood Thinner May Work Without Bleeding Risk

...d anti-clotting drugs to 1,030 patients undergoing cardiac catheterization and related intervention at 77 sites in six countries (including the United States, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany). The University of Kentucky enrolled 32 patients between August 2005 and September 2006. Patient foll...

An Orange a Day may Keep Heart Disease Away

...that eating at least one orange// a day could keep cardiac disease away. The citrus fruits contain the compounds flavanones that reduced blood cholesterol levels by 20-25 percent during a study on rats, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. The researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem report...

Role of Lifestyle Choices in Heart Risks

... to evaluate the effects of foods and nutrients on cardiac risk, researchers at the Yale Prevention Research Center in Connecticut conducted a trial to assess whether the consumption of cocoa would provide any sustained benefits on endothelial function. "While the findings from this study do not suggest th...

Heartbeats on IPods - Being ‘cool’ can Help Doctors to

...technique worked. Listening to the heart, known as cardiac auscultation, is a technical skill and therefore best learned through intensive drilling and repetition and not by traditional methods, usually a classroom lecture or demonstration in medical school and then on the job. Since the release of Barrett...

Low-dose Omega-3 Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

...s and to investigate further the effects of DHA on cardiac function," concluded the researchers. Hypertens...nting independently on the study, June Davidson, a cardiac nurse from UK charity, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) told NutraIngredients.com: "This study sho...

Low-dose Aspirin Beats High-dose After Cardiac Surgery

...effective as high-dose ASA in preventing recurrent cardiac events in ACS patients after PCI, while reducing the long-term risk of major bleeding," said Sanjit Jolly, of Hamilton Health Sciences and lead author of the trial. "These data are intriguing, since low-dose aspirin is most commonly prescribed in Eur...

Indian American Launches Stem Cell Treatment of Heart Disease

...r trial on March 7. "If it (using stem cells for cardiac disease) works, it could revolutionize cardiology," said Raval. Stem cells are primal cells common to all multi-cellular organisms that retain the ability to renew themselves through cell division and can differentiate into a wide range of speciali...

Bob Woolmer Might Have Died of Accidental Drug and Alcohol Overdose

...ut other reports say that Woolmer probably died of cardiac arrest. Meanwhile his grieving family has blamed stress for his shocking death. They said his job of coaching Pakistan had been incredibly stressful. At the post-match press conference on Saturday, after Pakistan lost to Ireland, Woolmer had com...

Polypill for Heart Ailments Being Tested in India

... subjects of the trial have all already suffered a cardiac event. The trial is for establishing whether the polypill can prevent recurrence of cardiac problems. Though a polypill was first suggested by two British scientists in 2003, this is the fi...

NRI Doctors Relocate to India

...sh citizen, has given up a flourishing career as a cardiac and endovascular surgeon in the US and has moved over to Gurgaon. He says, "Initially, I was skeptical, but a couple of trips later, I saw it as a lifetime opportunity. And my mind was made up," he says. He says there was little room for perso...

Weakened Hospital Care During Weekends

...ould be visited on a regular basis to rule out any cardiac disorder. JYT...

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