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Cholesterol-lowering Drug Effective at Halting Early Atherosclerosis

...ng the two-year period and showed a similar safety profile to the placebo,” said Crouse. The study included 61 primary care practices in the United States and Europe and was conducted between August 2002 and May 2006. Each participant was followed for two years and received an ultrasound exam at the begin...

Constipation Drug Linked to Heart Attack Pulled Out

...has concluded that the overall risk versus benefit profile for the drug is unfavorable for continued marketing. Its request to Novartis was based on 'newly available information of an increased risk of serious cardiovascular adverse events, including myocardial infarction (heart attack), unstable angina (c...

Ranbaxy Develops New Compound for Respiratory Inflammation

...en the two companies in 2003, Ranbaxy will further profile this drug candidate through pre-clinical studies and take it through an Investigational New Drug (IND) application. Ranbaxy will also be responsible for conducting phase I and phase II clinical studies through to proof of concept. GSK will then hav...

Experimental Flu Vaccine Appears Promising in Early Tests

...rated in this study are consistent with the safety profile observed in previous studies of rHA0 vaccine. These vaccines have been well tolerated at all doses administered and are associated with low rates of local reactions." "The use of recombinant DNA techniques to express proteins in cell culture has b...

Anti-anginal Drug Not Effective in Reducing Major Cardiac Events

...ings, together with the observed favorable overall profile of safety, provide additional evidence to guide the use of ranolazine as antianginal therapy in patients with chronic angina." Source-Eurekalert...

FDA Warns Against Buying of Counterfeit Drug Through Internet

...th help to lose weight. Both the drugs interaction profile is different. Sibutramine has to be administered once and the xenical thrice in a day. It seemed that both the drugs are combined to form anew drug which is highly dangerous. There is lot of risks involved in buying and consuming these counterfeit ...

Denosumab Reduces Bone Erosion

...ety was continually monitored and an adverse event profile similar to that of patients receiving placebo was observed in patients receiving treatment with denosumab....

Study Reinforces Safety of Long-term Biologic Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...s alike. Enbrel has a well-characterized safety profile and is well tolerated. Although a rare event, a higher than expected rate of lymphoma was observed in the analysis. However, further study is required to establish whether this is related to TNF antagonist exposure or reflects the elevated risk of ly...

New Balloon Catheter Available Worldwide for Carotid and Renal Angioplasty

... combines a unique high-pressure expansion and low profile .014 inch rapid exchange (RX) or single operator s...o limit the period of distal ischemia, and the low profile may help reduce the risk of plaque disruption and embolization when crossing the lesion. Professor ...

NASA Technology Helps Detect and Treat Heart Disease and Strokes

...nt and a report that identifies the patient's risk profile when compared to people of the same gender and age. JPL's Image Processing Laboratory was created in 1966 to receive and make sense of spacecraft imagery. In the lab, the NASA-invented Video Imaging Communication and Retrieval software has been use...

"Pre-treatment Blood Test" A New Guide to Lung Cancer Therapy

...patient samples, set out to determine if a protein profile in the peripheral blood could predict clinical benefit measured in terms of patient survival to EGF receptor TKIs. Using mass spectrometry, the researchers analyzed pre-treatment blood samples from 139 patients who had been treated with gefitinib...

Young Indians Say Cheers to White Spirits

...ing up in the subcontinent, thanks to the changing profile of drinkers, especially in the age group of 25-35 years. "Changing lifestyle, growing consumerism, increasing purchasing power and the preference to taste something new or different are making young Indians take to social drinking and experiment wi...

June is National Scleroderma Awareness Month

...e our patient communities while raising the public profile of a little known but often debilitating disease," said Frances Waldron, chief executive officer of the Scleroderma Foundation. "Though these walks raise money through pledged donations, the primary purpose of the walks is to educate the public on th...

Cemetery Tourism, the New Catchword in US

...president of the board of trustees. To raise its profile and money, Oakwood will stage a Renaissance fair this summer, with jousting matches among knights in shining armor. It was inspired by a medieval-style wedding there, for which the groom made his own armor. We want them to think, Wow, I think Id l...

Macrophages may Help Prevent Obesity

...o shown that when people lose a lot of weight, the profile of their macrophages changes, shifting to the anti-inflammatory mode. In the present study, the researchers have identified a molecular switch. They believe that their work raises the possibility that existing anti-inflammatory therapies might be t...

Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

...ry clear that we are confident in the benefit/risk profile for Avandia. We believe that if it is used according to the directions incorporated into U.S. and European labels, it is an important treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes," Krall says in a news release. "We believe that important evidence comi...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

...new nose. The flap was first carved in upside-down profile on the center of his forehead, with the top portion then cut out, turned around clockwise, and laid over the newly rebuilt nose. The outer skin covering was left attached to the center spot of the forehead, right between Fletchers eyes, for six we...

Bali Bombings Helped Improve Trauma Care

...ed by the Eyre Peninsula bushfires provided a high profile presence in the emergency department, for patients and staff alike, from the moment casualties were admitted. And all patients underwent a mental health review before being moved to hospitals in their home states. "Staff saw victims who had severe ...

Late Clamping of Umbilical Cord may Reduce Anemia in Children

...erences in the hemogram or the general biochemical profile in the umbilical vein in the cases of early and late clamping. Moreover, there were no differences in the viscosity or the melatonin in the umbilical artery and vein, which have traditionally been variables related to early clamping. From a clinica...

New Substance Use Prevention Program Being Developed

...ch out to students individually and based on their profile provide information to help prevent them from adopting high-risk behaviors." "This highly competitive research award is a strong vote of confidence by the federal government in the behavior change-related work underway here. It is a classic example...

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