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Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with CAD

... therapy (HRT) does not reduce the risk of cardiac events in postmenopausal women with existing coronary artery disease (CAD). In the PHASE trial (Papworth HRT Atherosclerosis Study), researchers randomized 255 postmenopausal women with angiographically proven coronary artery disease to receive either trans...

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...ks and distant El Ni?o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events that were mediated by increased sea-surface temper...3.7 years -- exactly the same frequency as of ENSO events between 1980 and 1998. But the cholera outbreaks and ENSO events did not precisely coincide: The sci...

Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with Coronary Artery Disease

... therapy (HRT) does not reduce the risk of cardiac events in postmenopausal women with existing coronary artery disease (CAD). In the PHASE trial (Papworth HRT Atherosclerosis Study), researchers randomized 255 postmenopausal women with angiographically proven coronary artery disease to receive either trans...

Mortality increased in Sporting enthusiasts!

...tors implicated as causes provoking cardiovascular events associated with a critical match. "Notably, heavy alcohol use, overeating, and excessive smoking may also play a part," researchers say. Thus the factors that contribute to atherosclerosis are not the only risk factors to be managed but also a bett...

When Celebrities Die

...d Rajiv Gandhi are always remembered as horrendous events in world history. But more disturbing is the fact that these celebrity deaths spark off a series of suicides and attempts to commit suicides. Now, medical research from Great Britain reveals a surprising side effect of our "celebrity connection." ...

Focus on DNA transcription

...ng which is at the end of a complicated cascade of events in the body. Transcription is the process of making RNA chains from DNA.In a series of complicated experiments with the enzyme from the bacteria E.Coli. Erie and her students found that when the precursor molecule does not occupy the newly disco...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

...number of heart attacks and the other heart attack events to about 8% in women and 13 % in men. Tice also noticed that "the evidence for the beneficial effects of vitamin therapy to lower homocysteine is much stronger than that for other dietary supplements promoted for heart disease prevention like garlic...

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

...d to serious complications called skeletal related events like fractures, compression of the spinal cord, severe bone pain and hypercalcemia.// Zometa is a new generation intravenous bisphosphonate that was approved by the FDA just two weeks ago (20 August 2001) for the treatment of hypercalcemia of mali...

Is acupuncture safe?

...rying out acupuncture agreed to record any adverse events occurring between June 1998 and February 2000. During this time, there were no serious adverse events and 671 minor ones occurring per 1,000 consultations. Some of these were avoidable, and acupuncturis...

Psychological consequence of terrorist attacks

...ions more have been traumatised by exposure to the events of last Tuesday through the media. In New York City, hospitals are responding to the need for counselling and support by setting up walk-in clinics and rapid response teams. Dr Michael Faenza, head of the National Mental Health Association in Washi...

Renal problem alleviated

...might be possible to link the results with similar events that occur in the nervous system in other disorders, such as in Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease. “However, more studies are needed to determine if this could be useful in humans,” he said. The researchers are hopeful that antioxidants might be ...

Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed

...systolic (top figure) hypertension reduces adverse events like heart attacks. This new study divides patients into four groups, depending on their cardiovascular risk. Treating those in the high risk group is four times more effective than for the low risk group. But the high risk group comprises exactly ...

New light on Cardiology

...think we can now reduce the risk of cardiovascular events and death by regression of LVH using ECG markers. The ECG is easily applied and relatively inexpensive.” <br...

Borderline blood pressure- possible health risk

...lood pressure measurement, rates of cardiovascular events were1.5 per cent, 2.2 per cent and 4.1 per cent for women depending on whether blood pressure was optimal, normal or borderline. The figures for men were: 5.1 per cent, 6 per cent and 10 per cent....

For a Better Memory

...iblings? If so, you might have a better memory for events -- no matter what hand you favour. The key lies in a part of the brain called the corpus callosum, which seems to be larger and more developed in folks with a family history of left-handedness, says study author Steven Christman. // The corpus call...

Left handed have better episodic memory

...e with left-handedness in their families) remember events better than they remember facts. As a result, the authors say that memory studies should factor in the familial and probably personal handedness of participants (having a weak versus strong hand preference may also matter). Further research may help...

Tongue piercing leads to bacterial infection

...re representative for this age group, these morbid events comprise a considerable demand on and cost to the heath care system,"Dr. Mayer added....

High Cholesterol linked to Alzheimer’s diseas

...egins gradually, causing a person to forget recent events or familiar tasks. How rapidly it advances varies from person to// person, but the disease eventually leads to confusion, personality and behavior changes and impaired judgment. Communication becomes more difficult as the disease progresses. Having...

The route to fertilization

... the chemical incitement for a cascade of chemical events gradually resulting in the development of an embryo.He says,it begins with the build-up of nitric oxide gas inside the sperm.// The research is based on the sex lives of male and female sea urchins - spiny, purple invertebrates found in the Pacific...

Cholesterol Drug Helps After Angioplasty

...American each year. "This reduction in major heart events -- such as dying of heart disease or suffering another heart attack is quite impressive," said Dr. Patrick Serruys,// professor of interventional cardiology at Erasmus University Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Serruys, the principal investiga...

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