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Cloud of smoke over Zyban

... to cardiovascular causes and where information on medical history was provided, most patients had a history of cardiovascular disease or risk factors for cardiovascular disease in addition to smoking.” According to GSK reports in the UK, sales had slumped 34 per cent to 22 million pounds ($31 million) in ...

Epilepsy can be predicted

...oven reliable, such an application would lower the medical consequences of seizures and improve the quality of life of people with epilepsy by decreasing the risk of injury, and the sense of helplessness fostered by the unpredictability of the disease."Dr David Fish, from the Institute of Neurology in London...

Interference helps Heart Patients

... out of the hospital and significantly lower their medical costs.// The study involved 300 patients who were followed for six months after being sent home from two hospitals in the San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare network. Patients received either usual follow-up care or printed educational material and an ...

Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

...isits from sales representatives, free samples and medical journal ads - decreased from 91% to 84% during the same period. They analyzed data on media advertising and sales of individual drugs, examining trends since 1996, the year before the Food and Drug Administration issued rules for television ads on pr...

Liver transplant oversight urged

...ng such units. They also urged adoption of uniform medical criteria for picking donors and recipients. The nu... transplants could shorten waiting lists and offer medical advantages in some cases over the traditional practice of taking transplant livers from people who h...

Attacking therapy with electricity

...erapy, and to the delivery of drugs for a range of medical problems, including heart disease and glaucoma. Some of the applications are now in advanced development, for head and neck tumours, for example. In the future, electroporation could be very widely applied for drug delivery....

New methods to prevent injury of patients

...proving technology, rather than assigning blame to medical personnel. In road safety, automobile technology improvements have brought benefits - rather than blaming the driver. Researchers feel that in hospitals, computerised prescriptions could stop drug errors more effectively than blaming doctors or nur...

Liver key to extending life

...erly in the liver. In an article due to appear in medical journal The Lancet next month, Professor Le Couteur argues that the age-related increase in atherosclerosis is due to these age-related changes in the liver. Previous research has shown that toxins such as alcohol and bacteria-derived toxins damage t...

Ulcer Surgery connected to danger of Pancreatic Cancer

...eptic ulcers who underwent surgery at the academic medical center of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands had an almost twofold higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer up to 40 years after the procedure than those in the general Dutch population. Furthermore, that risk appears to increase wit...

Good treatment for leg ulcers

According to a new review of the medical proof, the drug pentoxifylline is effective in the treatment of venous leg ulcers. Venous leg ulcers are caused by poor circulation and they are quite common among people aged 60 or over. Standard treatment is by compression stretch bandages, but up ...

Stem Cells Have Few Mutations

...oved for federal funding will be enough to develop medical treatments. ``This paper highlights an issue tha...es are not likely to be maximally beneficial'' for medical treatments.'' Dr. Clive Svendsen, a stem cell researcher at the Waisman Center of the University o...

Patients with testicular cancer dying through unfamiliarity

...olomew's Hospital, said that it was essential that medical students were trained in examination of the (exter... with large testicular lumps continue to evade the medical profession despite all efforts. According to him, medical professionals and the general population, ...

Abbott Laboratories to buy Biocompatibles' cardiovascular stent business

...o coated stents since 1999. The pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer also will assume worldwide commercial rights for all potential drug-coated stent products in Biocompatibles' pipeline. Abbott Laboratories said it expects the deal to be completed in the second quarter. Abbott shares fell 71 cen...

Decrease of 'Hunger Hormone' after Obesity Surgery

... of gastric bypass surgery or result in unexpected medical consequences is needed. It is also unclear how gastric bypass surgery leads to a reduction in ghrelin levels. Nonetheless, the findings indicate that the hormone contributes to hunger and plays a key role in the long-term regulation of body weight, ...

A remedy to lessen fatigue

...Hopkins University felt that intense fatigue needs medical investigation, and careful management. Feeling tired all the time may be a sign of an underlying medical condition - or it may be part and parcel of an overwhelmingly busy life. If you find fatigue is real...

Mild Depression may guard aged women

... mild depression, which typically does not require medical treatment, could be a coping mechanism for elderly women that might benefit them in the long run. "It may be a sort of message to the body that something needs to be looked at, that you need to pay attention to it," Blazer said. No one is suggesting...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...as WEST, which are considered the gold standard of medical research. Recent randomized trials, in which a coin toss determines who goes on HRT, have found no benefit and perhaps even harm from the treatment. Joann Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, said that the...

Boys reduced mother's life expectancy

...d hunting for their livelihood and lacked advanced medical care. On average, the reduction was 40 weeks per son, though it ranged from four to 65. Daughters increased a mother's life expectancy by an average of 30 weeks. Mothers with many daughters who survived to adulthood had the longest lifespans in these...

Assisting stroke patients to recover balance

... Lyon neurological laboratory of INSERM the French medical research agency, gave wedge shaped spectacles with prismatic lenses to patients with postural problems. These made objects appear 10 degrees farther to the right or the left than they were. As expected, when the patients were asked to point to obje...

Look out for sepsis

...orse. Sepsis can take hold very rapidly, so prompt medical attention is essential....

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