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New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

...start shipping Natrecor to hospitals this week and each vial, a day's treatment, will cost $380....

Action of nerve cells

...rotransmitter filled membrane balloons released by each neuron.So the strength of memory depends on how well the UNC-13 protein helps to gather up the neurotransmitter filled balloons and release them from one cell to another, he stated. Jorgensen said the research was aimed at understanding how the b...

Grains do good

...valent of two to three slices of whole-grain bread each day were 30% to 40% less likely to have an ischemi...n who ate the equivalent of less than half a slice each day.//Out of a group of 34,000 adults, those who ate the most whole grains had a 23% lower risk of d...

Acupuncture for conception

...h a certain number of eggs, hundreds are lost with each menstrual cycle and those that are left after 35 years are more fragile, making fertilization and normal conception more difficult.// Because the body rejects embryos that aren't developing properly, the rate of miscarriages among women over 40 is ...

Need to use defibrillators

...uarter of a million people die from cardiac arrest each year in the United States.// Many lives could be saved if prompt action is taken to restart the heart, using an automated electrical defibrillator (AED), a device which delivers an electric shock to the heart muscle. There are moves to put more AED's...

Human gene number increases

...ological evidence, such as gene activity, confirms each gene's existence. Such an analysis identified an extra 1,000 genes in fruitfly genome....

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

...program, which will outline the do's and don'ts at each stage of the smoking cessation therapy....

The effect of heart rate in middle aged men

...s unknown. Upon calculating the hazard ratio ,for each heart rate increment of 20 beats per minute , they...s being equal, deaths risks increase about 50% for each 20-beat-per-minute increment, and relative risks between extreme heart rate levels are more than 2-f...

The right is responsible

...n and colleagues worked with five patients who had each half of their brain anaesthetised briefly as part of preoperative testing for brain surgery to treat epilepsy. Each patient was shown and asked to remember a morphed computer image blending the patient's own face with the face of a famous person. Af...

The feel of pain

...elt a series of painful sensations on their hands, each signaled in advance by a coloured light. This allowed them to show something no research team had demonstrated before - there are two distinct phases in the perception of pain.While certain brain areas "lit up" when the painful sensation itself was ...

Gel prevents pregnancy

...ve pill. The gel, which is rubbed onto the stomach each day, is being tested in four countries world-wide.For many women, protecting against pregnancy means the daily ritual of popping the contraceptive pill. But now there's a new option under trial.// Dr Edith Weisberg from the Family Planning Associati...

Keep guilt off

... as eating, drinking, smoking and sex, and to rate each one for the amount of pleasure and guilt it gave.T...es were used to develop a pleasure-guilt ratio for each student.To test immune systems, students gave a saliva sample to determine their levels of immunoglo...

Mammography aided by computer

...// The radiologist makes the final decision, but each mammogram is read first by the radiologist and then by the computer. CAD helps by pointing out lesions that might have been overlooked in the initial exam. It's as if the radiologist had a second pair of highly-trained eyes to help confirm the diagno...

Medicis Pharmaceutical company enters pediatric market

...quity up to an additional $10 million per year for each of the first five years. This transaction provides Medicis with critical mass to assist with the entrance into the category of pediatrics. "We are pleased to announce our carefully planned entrance into the pediatric market with a transaction we ex...

Renal problem alleviated

...al failure leading to about 7,000 deaths in the UK each year....

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...h risks of even large amounts of weight gain. In each of the groups, 10 sessions were conducted over 7 weeks. No medication of any kind was provided.One year after treatment, 21 percent of the women who received therapy to allay their concerns about weight gain had completely quit smoking (with no relap...

Statins reduce heart attacks

... half a million deaths attributed to heart disease each year. // The aim is to reduce levels of LDL cholesterol, the so-called bad cholesterol, especially in people with heart disease, diabetes, or multiple risk factors for a heart attack. Statin drugs work by slowing down the liver's production of c...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

.... Around 30,000 people are diagnosed with epilepsy each year, and of these, about one-third can be expected to continue on long-term medication. But researchers from the Institute of Neurology at University College London have found that some epilepsy treatment regimes are outmoded, inappropriate or given...

High-Carbohydrate diet plus exercise !

...with an hour of brisk walking a day. At the end of each diet, triglycerides were measured. As expected, triglycerides were higher after high-carbohydrate diet without exercise than after the low-carbohydrate diet. But the increase in triglycerides was significantly lower after the high-carbohydrate diet p...

Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks

... if widely adopted, could save thousands of people each year. Taking care of anemia is probably as important as giving aspirin, beta blockers or clot-dissolving drugs, which are already standard care for heart attacks. // The size of the benefit depends on how anemic people are. But even those with mil...

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