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Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure

...used to treat kidney failure, one of the commonest complications in diabetes. // In the first trial, carried o...abetes, for there has been no treatment for kidney complications till now. They also underline the need for the earliest possible diagnosis of kidney disease in peop...

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

...ection. Kidney failure often leads to neurological complications like fatigue, apathy, emotional instability and even convulsions and coma. // Researchers at the University of California at Irvine have learned more of the origin of the neurological problems in kidney failure using laboratory rats. They find that...

New pancreatic surgery

...al for all of them. And there are ways of reducing complications - using different methods to heal the surgical wound....

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

...the same overall protection against cardiovascular complications as diuretics or ?-blockers. However, calcium-channel blockers were found to be more protective against stroke than against myocardial infarction – resulting in an overall cardiovascular benefit similar to that of old classes of antihypertensive dru...

Diabetics and their babies

...nborn children are at a greater risk of developing complications during pregnancy compared to women who do not have diabetes, studies have proven that these risks can be reduced by keeping blood glucose levels in good control. "With adequate medical support and careful planning of the pregnancy, women with diabete...

Diabetes on the rise

... in life, and are certainly more vulnerable to its complications such as high blood pressure leading to coronary he... is being diagnosed in many patients. A study of complications in more than 3000 diabetics by the Diabetes Research Centre in Chennai showed that many had suffered...

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

... to those patients most at risk of getting serious complications from the flu. Those patients include people over 65 and those with chronic respiratory and heart conditions. Because flu season usually does not get into full swing until late December and vaccine is expected to be plentiful by early next month, heal...

Cyclosporin A Treats Leukemia Complications

Some leukemia patients with common complications of their disease may have a new way to overcome them. New research finds that chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients with anemia or thrombocytopenia can be treated effectively with the drug, cyclosporin A. Anemia is a decrease in red cells in th...

Pioneering artificial heart patient dies

...suffering a series of setbacks. TOOLS, 59, died of complications after severe abdominal bleeding. He began bleeding and his organs began failing later, said Drs. Laman Gray Jr. and Robert Dowling, who implanted the experimental device on July 2 at Jewish Hospital. // Tools, a retired telephone company...

Safe for people with asthma

...ke it to prevent exposing themselves to the health complications of flu....

Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

... the risk of heart attack and other artery-disease complications by up to 90% in some patients. The study of 160 ad...lockages to recede and significantly lowered heart complications compared with an inactive placebo. // Both lowering LDL, the "bad" cholesterol, and raising HDL he...

Radiofrequency catheter ablation safe for infants

...inst 87.6% in babies.A total of 12 major and minor complications occurred in the infant group, including one death. Dr Blaufox said success of RFCA was unrelated to a patient's weight or age or whether or not the patient had a heart defect. He said: "However, more experienced physicians are more likely to perform ...

Fight against E.coli

...rrhoea. It usually clears up after a few days, but complications that may arise include inflammation of the bowel, and anaemia. In some cases, kidney problems may arise....

Choose the correct hypertensive drug

... these drugs when it comes to reducing the risk of complications of high blood pressure - stroke, heart attack and heart failure. For instance, angiotension converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are more effective than other drugs in reducing the risk of heart attack. And the long-acting calcium channel blockers are...

Inherited gene important in ovarian cancer

A gene causes significant complications in ovarian cancer. A gene implicated in inherited ovarian cancer is more significant in the disease than previously realised. Up to 10 per cent of cases of ovarian cancer arise from a mutation in a gene called BRCA1.// In these cases, the woman usual...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...aby's temperature by a few degrees can prevent the complications caused by asphyxia. Asphyxia can be caused by a number of factors, including an obstruction to the baby's blood supply or detachment of the placenta, however, in many cases the cause cannot be identified. On the strength of these studies, researcher...

Immune cells halt round in space

...icrogravity on individual immune cells without the complications of hormone effects. The bioreactor consists of a rotating container full of a fluid which allows cells to remain suspended for months at a time in continual free fall, just as they would be in Earth orbit. According to Neal Pellis, chief of JSC's Bi...

Knowing how weight loss aids in diabetes

...impact that weight loss can make in decreasing the complications of diabetes.// Colleagues and the researchers are joining people into the first long-term study on how weight loss affects the outcome in type 2 diabetes. With about 30 per cent of the population now classified as overweight, and diabetes seemingly ...

Awakening call for fall prevention

... plates or screws. The best way to avoid all these complications is to do your utmost to prevent a fall from occurring....

Tongue piercing leads to bacterial infection

...nts, and there is significant incidence of medical complications among students with piercing,"// said Dr. Lester B. Mayers of the Pace University Athletic Department's Division of Sports Medicine and the lead author of the study. A survey of university undergraduate students revealed that more than one-half had...

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(Date:12/4/2008)...ire-FirstCall/ -- MiddleBrook,Pharmaceuticals, In...opened its,administrative and sales office in Wes...will continue to house certain personnel and funct...pment group. The newly leased 14,971 square,foot...mployees as MiddleBrook,grows. , MiddleBrook P...
(Date:12/4/2008)...wire/ -- BAPTIST HEALTH, a six-hospital,system ba...health system, has,expanded its use of Clinical X...tion that enabled the system,s pharmacists to incr...re than $1 million. , "Data we collected fo...CareFocus prompts approximately half of the pharma...
(Date:12/4/2008)...en with standard dose of daunorubicin, study shows...- A high dose of the chemotherapy drug daunorubici...untreated acute myeloid leukemia (AML), preliminar...l Cancer Institute (NCI) show. , AML is a cance...d 633 patients, aged 16 to 60, who were randomly a...
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(Date:12/4/2008)... Blacksburg, Va. -- The Virginia Tech Wake Forest... Science,s Center for Injury Biomechanics has rece...08. , The Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff o...award for research that could ultimately help save...iated with facial injury. , The center was sele...
(Date:12/4/2008)... With up to half of a person,s body mass consistin...e muscles which include those found in the limbs ... According to University of Illinois kinesiology ... research has demonstrated that the antioxidant pr...ed expression of certain pro-inflammatory cytokine...
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