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New Hypertension Drug Wins FDA Approval

...It also puts a strain on the heart that eventually leads to heart failure and death. The disease affects ab...ess of breath and heart failure and, if untreated, leads to death in about three years, Gilead said. The approval of Letairis is a big step in an effort b...

New Drug for Rheumatoid Arthritis Looks Promising.

...RA is a far more serious inflammatory disease that leads to destruction of cartilage and bone, and can lead to disability. The new treatment option Actemra in combination with traditional drugs achieved a significant improvement in disease signs and symptoms after 24 weeks, compared to those treated wit...

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...cor and traditional Tatamis floor covering. She leads the women, in light summer kimonos, in silence through each gesture of the ritual, filling her small corner of the Russian megalopolis with a perfect calm....

Cousins Recovering from His Substance Abuse Problem

...he social consequences of substance use. Substance leads to addiction. IN Ben Cousin’s case it is not known as to when he will be able to return to his football career. He apologized to the West Coast Eagles Football Club, sponsors, the AFL and the community for my actions. His first priority was to rega...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

...ondition that causes rapidly accelerated aging and leads to an average life expectancy// of 13 years. Sci...lacement causes progeria; under the microscope, it leads to visible distortions in the structure of cell nuclei. By studying the mutations that killed the ...

Defective Defibrillators

...ern. It's a very serious problem, because if the leads [wires] have defects, they have to be changed or the device cannot terminate fibrillation," said study author Dr. Thomas Kleeman, a clinical electrophysiologist at Herzzentrum Ludwigshafen. "Surgery to change them is not so easy," he added. The fa...

Brazil Spider Offers Hope for Those Suffering from Erectile Dysfunction

...ompared with its non-erect state.) “All of this leads to vaso-dilation of vessels that go through the penis and also relaxation of those [cylindrical tube muscles],” Leite told LiveScience. “They need to relax so the blood will come inside and that’s how you get an erection, because the blood gets trapp...

Ex Pro-football Players Saddled With Depression After Retirement

...lem as seen in many players after retirement often leads to severe depression. The transition to retirement is often difficult. There are other factors which add to the miseries of the player such as lack of exercise, loss of fitness, lack of social support and friendship, financial difficulties. There a...

Cancer Patient’s Life Improved With Anti-reflux Valv

...place the clogged stents. The exact mechanism that leads to stent clogging is not known. There is a possibility that clogging occurs from contents from the intestines backflowing (refluxing) into the stent. The “Dua Anti-Reflux Valve” was initially developed to reduce reflux of stomach contents in patien...

New Mechanism Identified for Resistance to Targeted Lung Cancer Drugs

...urrently being tested in clinical trials. But what leads to other cases of resistance has been unknown, and the current study was designed to discover additional mechanisms. To do so, the investigators modeled in a laboratory setting what happens in lung cancer patients; they used a line of NSCLC cells w...

Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

...l., Oxford University. After identifying promising leads through this approach, the three research teams jointly replicated their findings using smaller, more focused sets of genetic markers in additional groups totaling more than 22,000 people from Finland, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Unite...

Resistance to Anti-HIV Drugs in Uganda Developed Due to Drug Supply Problems

...rupt access to treatment. Free access to treatment leads to better survival than self-pay therapy because free treatment may be less susceptible to interruptions that lead to resistance" said study senior author David R. Bangsberg, MD, MPH, director of the UCSF Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Cen...

Black Cohosh-Black Magic Against Breast Cancer

...wings, and sleepless nights. For some, this search leads to hormone-related supplements (HRSs) – many of which contain phytoestrogens, plant-derived hormones that are chemically similar to the human estrogens in decline during menopause. Yet researchers ponder the fact whether the use of these supplemen...

Researchers Make Headway in Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy

...eved to contribute to the blood vessel damage that leads to the disease. This is the first time a drug has been shown to protect against the complication in a human clinical trial. According to Dr. Richard Insel, Executive Vice President of Research for JDRF, "Since retinopathy is the most common and ser...

Humans Aren't the Only Ones With Obesity Problems

...ably couch potatoes. An overeating, slothful horse leads to an obese horse. Unlike humans, however, horse owners often don't see the dangers of an// obese horse. Caretakers may see no harm in giving their horses rich foods, but obesity in horses is just as unhealthy as obesity in humans and can lead to fat...

Researchers Discovers DNA Repair as Key to Huntington's Disease

...-- in this case, enzymes involved in DNA repair -- leads to new insights about how diseases arise and new approaches for treating or preventing them," said NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D. In their study of transgenic mice that carried the human Huntington’s gene, the researchers noted that the repeated...

Heartburn Shadowing Modern India

...il of Medical Research, frequent ulceration which leads to cancer of the esophagus, is among the top three cancers in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Ahmedabad. AN...

Right Treatment Could Cure Chronic Cough

...isturbances. It is one of the leading reasons that leads for consultation// with physician, according to a report published. “Coughing plays an important role in the body’s defense system by clearing the airway of excess secretions and foreign bodies,” note the authors. “However, in some patients cough m...

Brain Structure Changes Years Before Memory Loss Begins

... developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which leads to Alzheimer's disease. Researchers performed brain scans and cognitive tests on 136 people over the age of 65 who were considered cognitively normal at the beginning of the five-year study. Participants were then followed annually with neurologic ...

HeartLander - Futuristic Medical Technology Takes Off

...fully on pigs, performing the fitting of pacemaker leads and the injection of dye into hearts. Yet, Riviere says that using the robot on humans would be a much more difficult step and the device is years away from clinical use. Accordingly, the next stage will be to do similar tests using a sheep's hear...

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