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Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

...se prescription drugs. With today's release of the first comprehensive state-by-state study of prescription drug use, where you live also can say a lot about which and how many medications you use. // According to the study, the percentage of adult beneficiaries obtaining at least one prescription in 2000...

FDA Approves New Anti-Clotting Drug

... replacement, and knee replacement. Arixtra is the first synthetic anticoagulant indicated for use in these types of surgeries.// The formation of clots in the deep veins of the legs is common after these surgeries and can lead to serious and potentially fatal consequences, such as when the clots break of...

Tomato Sauce reduces Cancer Risk- Study

...pital and the Harvard School of Public Health, the first author of the study, said it supported earlier research involving foods such as tomatoes that were high in lycopene, a powerful antioxidant. According to the author, these most recent findings add support to the notion that a diet rich in tomatoes a...

Fossil teeth and human development

...k as 1.5 million years ago, corresponding with the first evidence of modern human-like characteristics such as body proportions, body weight and small teeth and jaws."It seems our prolonged period of growth and development may be a more recent evolutionary acquisition that arose in step with our comparativ...

Influenza drug delayed

...can reduce the spread of flu in families. When the first person in a household who developed the flu took the drug as well as all other family members, 63 percent of the households were protected against the flu. The results with this drug are marvelous. Two other flu medications, amantadine and rimantadin...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

...a new report finds that earlier treatment - in the first 90 minutes after symptoms begin - doubles the chan...patients. They found that those treated within the first 90 minutes after the start of symptoms have almost three times the chance of a full recovery compare...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...xy butyric acid -- hailed as a wonder drug for the first 30 years// of its career, has been blamed as an illegal killer for the past 12 years. Many blame GHB for thousands of deaths and emergency room visits, while others claim its unrivaled uses as a prescription drug. The Food and Drug Administration ba...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

...hern California in Los Angeles. To capture images first an external camera mounted in an eyeglass frame captures the image and converts it into an electrical signal that is electronically transmitted to the flexible silicon biochip surgically attached near the retina.The chip electronically stimulates the...

New pacemaker reduces risk of heart failure

...res attaching three wires, can be tricky. On their first attempt, doctors often take 2 to 4 hours to cope up with them. But after they get more skilled, this falls to about an hour and a half. The procedure is successful in about 97 % of cases....

Defibrillators saving lives but price is an issue

...or to the medicines now in use. The study is the first to test the preventive use of these devices in people without apparent rhythm problems, but whose hearts are so scarred from heart attacks that they pump half the normal amount of blood. Implantable defibrillators were designed to prevent sudden deat...

Statins reduce risks for angioplasty patients

...ugs, called statins, and all of them had had their first angioplasty within the previous 8 months. Statins reduce cholesterol by slowing cholesterol production. Several large studies demonstrated that the drugs prevent heart attacks and heart-disease deaths. Cardiologist Robert Harrington of Duke Universi...

Cholesterol Drug Helps After Angioplasty

...arteries. Patients were eligible if they had their first angioplasty procedure within the previous six months. In an angioplasty, a balloon-tipped catheter is guided by X-rays to the site of a main artery blockage that keeps blood from the heart. The balloon is inflated and crushes the blockage to the sid...

Researchers trick Alzheimer's Enzyme

...istry test, acetylchonlinesterase, was one of the first brain enzymes identified. It breaks down acetylcholine, the neurotransmitter that propagates nerve signals. Inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase treat the dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease by increasing the amount of acetylcholine in the bra...

Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

... since aspirin's potent anti-clotting effects were first discovered, relatively few drugs have been developed that can even be compared to the efficacy, ease of use, and price of aspirin. From the meta-analyses, and to many stroke experts and biostatisticians in this field, aspirin remains the drug of choi...

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...isk. There might be a window of opportunity in the first trimester when preventive treatment could be successful, but until now we did not have a simple way to identify high-risk women," wolf said....

Vitamins enhances recuperation of organ transplant patients

...ies, a condition// called arteriosclerosis, in the first three years after their surgery. A team from the...s could delay the onset of arteriosclerosis in the first year after heart transplantation. DrJames said: "Our results suggest that vitamins C and E provide...

Arthritis drug can prolong life

...patients feel better, but a new study provides the first hint it may also save lives. Scientists believe people with rheumatoid arthritis have shorter life spans partly because they face increased chances of getting heart disease and dying from it. The latest study found that patients on methotrexate...

Consumer group seeks Sibutramine ban

...any diseases and premature death. This is not the first time a diet drug has come under fire. In 1998, the FDA pulled two diet drugs from the market, fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine, because of concern over heart-valve problems. Sibutramine, marketed as Meridia by Abbott Laboratories, works on two brain ...

Cure for common cold

...l advisory committee recommended recently that the first drug aimed at treating the cause of the cold// rather than just its symptoms not be approved. In a unanimous decision, the Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel on anti-viral drugs said there were too many questions about the safety of the ...

Women benefit from consuming fish

... showed similar benefits for men, but this was the first to look specifically at the effect in women. A study last year found that women who ate fish two to three times weekly cut their risk of ischemic, or clot-related, strokes by 48%. "It was very important to confirm that the beneficial effects of fis...

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