Blocking the Y2 Receptors can Prevent Obesity
...action, NPY levels rise in our bodies, causing our heart rate and blood pressure to go up, among other thin...haped type, which makes people more susceptible to heart disease and diabetes, says senior author of the Nature Medicine paper, Professor Zofia Zukowska of G...Art in Hospitals to Enhance Patient Care
...gnancy, drug and substance abuse and even obesity, heart disease, testicular cancer and breast cancer. This radical plan has aroused a lot of controversy. There has been wide spread criticism of NHS trusts in the UK who have spent tens of thousands of pounds on art installations at a time when they are c...Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use
...d news that in the last six years, death rates and heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients have fallen sharply- most likely because of better treatment. According to the re...The cardiac devices which are used to shock the heart back to normal are found not to be working just w...ult. The wire or the lead sometimes shocked the heart unnecessary or sometimes failed to work when heart is beating abnormally or completely stopped. Ma...Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain
People who suffer a heart attack or severe chest pain today are much less li... study has shown a significant drop in the rate of heart failure and death over such a short time in this population. The study finds that the change occu...Anti-inflammatory Drug Fails to Improve COPD Symptoms
... to become the third-leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer, by 2015. Stephen I. Rennard, M.D., of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, led a team of researchers at 41 U.S. medical centers that enrolled 234 subjects in the study. Patients receiving infliximab were randomly ...Migraine and Pregnancy Is the Combo Pregnant to Trigger Strokes?
...ore likely than women without migraine to suffer a heart attack and are twice as likely to have heart disease." On the same breath, she also felt that data from hospital discharge databases cannot for...Anti-osteoporosis Drugs Could Result in Irregular Heart Rhythm, New Study
...Fosamax manufactured by Merck and Co and irregular heart rhythm , though only in a small number of women us...condition called atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm that can cause strokes. Though it is still uncertain how big a worry it might be, experts a...Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans
... women. Individual medical conditions such as some heart problems may make the risk of vaginal birth higher than cesarean birth. Other risks for the mother include the following: Infection. The uterus or nearby pelvic organs such as the bladder or kidneys can become infected. Increased blood loss. Bl...United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired
...ments at St Mary's, especially ones like the fetal heart monitors; it appeared that such equipments were managed by borrowing from other maternity wards. Admitting to the loopholes at maternity units, a spokesman from a particular hospital said, "On occasions, there have been some instances when we have ...Gene Mutations Leave Caucasians Prone To Heart Diseases And Diabetes
...ave DNA that is linked to the risks of developing heart diseases. And thats not all. These genes lie clos...earchers, may help explain why so many people have heart disease even if they do not have clear risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol or high blood ......experts believe that it can also lower the risk of heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver. Antioxidant...ncentrations. It contains tannin which is good for heart and arteries. Dr. Rob van Dam of the Harvard School of Public Health, who has conducted studies o...A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk
...sleep, resulting in reduced oxygen supply to lung, heart and brain. This could lead to snoring and people could find it difficult to breathe," he explained. Therefore, if you have a persistent cold, it is not worth ignoring it....The DNA That Spells Double Risk of Heart Attack
One in five Britons may just feel the heart in their mouth when they read this bit. Genes which spell doom and double the risk of suffering a heart attack have finally been identified by scientists. The findings published in the Journal Science,...Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses
... who lost their lives to work- related cancers and heart attacks can heave a sigh of relief at last. Ontarios new labor laws state that they no longer need to prove the cause of death in order to qualify for compensation due the dead workers family. The changes of regulations will identify eight types...New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging
...isorders including forms of muscular dystrophy and heart disease. In addition, recent studies by other labs have shown that occasional errors in the production of lamin A may take place even in people with "normal" copies of the gene. Scientists suspect that accumulation of these bad copies may contribut...Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations
...cision to allow generic versions of AIDS drugs and heart medication. Wearing black T-shirts with crossed-...s for AIDS drugs Kaletra and Efavirenz and popular heart disease medicine Plavix. The government plans to import generic versions of the drugs from India, bu...Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie
...d Sydney cabbie last January. The driver died of a heart attack after he was beaten up by the two fourtee... was "sufficient to traumatize him and trigger the heart attack from which he died. And he added alcohol and drugs are not a license for committing crime. ...Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years
...cause drastic weight gains, promoting diabetes and heart disease, Parks says. He thinks these drugs are con...a study showing that after the mentally ill suffer heart attacks, they're less likely than other patients to get state-of-the-art care. Parks thinks agenc......o). Atrial fibrillation is a condition of abnormal heart rhythms, which is one risk factor for stroke. "The observed increase in atrial fibrillation was very small less than one in 100 patients so it needs to be weighed against the reduction in fracture risk," Black said. This increase was unexpected a...