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Reduced Oxygen to the Brain Increases Alzheimers Risk in Stroke Victims

Researchers have found that stroke victims develop higher risk for Alzheimers disease...ngina, to sudden incidents such as a heart attack, stroke or even head trauma. Even though the patient may outwardly recover, the hidden cell damage may be ir...

Women of Child-Bearing Age Urged to Take a Multivitamin With Folic Acid

...sess the efficacy of folic acid supplementation in stroke prevention(3). According to the researchers, fol... acid supplementation reduced the relative risk of stroke by 18 percent or more. The benefit was even greater in those trials involving a longer treatment dur...

FDA Approves Divigel(R) for Treatment of Hot Flashes Linked With Menopause

... currently have or have had certain cancers, had a stroke or heart attack in the past year, currently have or have had blood clots, currently have or have had liver problems, are allergic to any Divigel(R) ingredients, or think you may be pregnant. The most common side effects for all estrogen products ar...

New Small Vessel Neurovascular Retrievers for Use in Stroke Patients

...in their efforts to restore blood flow to ischemic stroke patients. The Merci L4 Retriever joins the L fam...Medical's leadership in developing new options for stroke patients", said Gary Curtis , President and CEO of Concentric Medical. "These next-generation Merci ...

The Rate of Accident Deaths Much Higher

...ading cause of death after heart diseases, cancer, stroke and respiratory diseases. But for people in the age group 1 to 44 accidents are the top killer....

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

... try isradipine, a well-tolerated hypertension and stroke drug commercialised under the name of DynaCirc, which blocks the channels in the cell surface that admit calcium. Tested on lab-dish cells and then on mice which had been genetically engineered to have Parkinson's, the team found that within a few ...

The Production and Marketing of IBS Drug Halted by the Chinese Government

...it was linked with increased risk of heart attack, stroke and chest pain that can become a heart attack, the AP reported. "We have announced this morning that we are complying with a request from the local authority to suspend the marketing and sales activity of (Zelnorm) in China," Novartis spokeswoman C...

Right Side of Brain Play a Vital Role in Stroke

...cher on this study, said: We know that suffering a stroke in the left frontal region can affect aspects of s...fer damage to their right frontal lobe following a stroke may struggle in everyday situations which require attention to be switched flexibly from one thing t...

A Handful of Pistachios a Day Helps to Keep Your Heart Healthy

...ease the risk of developing both heart disease and stroke while lowering blood lipid levels has been shown to reduce the risk. Lipids join with protein in the blood to form lipoproteins, known as cholesterol. The research appears in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition....

Therapist Arrested For Breaking Lives

...lea of guilt, in part to spare one girl, a teenage stroke victim, from testifying before a jury.Says Gunn: "This is absolutely one of the worst child molestation situations imaginable. Bleyle worked at the well-regarded hospital for 25 years, including 10 at the convalescent facility, and was considered b...

Regular Sex Increases Longevity in Men

...say, because it helps cut the risk of death from a stroke by 50 per cent, diabetes by 40 per cent and heart disease by 30 per cent. Our results suggest sexual activity has a protective effect, The Sun quoted Dr Chen, as saying. The only thing that has a devastating effect on men, is being widowed at 65,...

Researchers Developing New Therapy to Re-activate Silenced Genes

...ents who suffer from Neurodegenerative diseases or stroke . During and after a stroke, certain cellular events take place that lead to the death of brain cells. Compounds that inhibit a group of enzymes called histone deacetylases can modulate gene expression, and in some cases produce cellular proteins t...

Animals too Affected from Heat Wake in Jaipur

...al. "We have been getting a lot of cases of heat stroke in dogs these days. It is happening because of the...an or cooler. The number of cases of canine heat stroke has increased by 20-30 percent since the onset of heat wave last week....

Migraine and Pregnancy – Is the Combo Pregnant to Trigger Strokes

...graine during 2000 to 2003. There were 97 cases of stroke and a negligible number died due to brain attacks. SAV/B...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...p heart failure, have pulmonary edema, or suffer a stroke in their first six months after hospitalization. "These findings are exciting because they provide good evidence that improved use of guideline- based treatments has resulted in fewer deaths and fewer patients with heart failure in those that pres...

Intake of Cherries Could Cut the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Heart Disease

...t can greatly increase your risk of heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes, so it's a serious condition that significantly affects public health," said study co-author Dr. Steven F. Bolling, a cardiac surgeon at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center who also heads the U-M Cardioprotection Rese...

Arcoxia Slammed –Nothing Better Than Vioxx Says FD

... the panel that Arcoxia might increase the risk of stroke and heart attack and was no more effective for pain relief than other medicines in the same class. "What you're talking about is a potential public health disaster," he said. COX-2 drugs have never been shown to be better pain relievers than older...

RFID Use can Avoid Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

...blood transfusion, to track hospital beds, to help stroke and Alzheimer's patients, to manage pharmacy supply chain and to keep tab on cadaver organs from being misused. The use of newer technology to improve patient care has never been fully exploited. What is required is a little inventive thinking an...

Aspirin Therapy for Heart Disease Found More Effective for Men Than Women

... can reduce the risk of a nonfatal heart attack or stroke by about 23 percent, and an estimated 20 million men and women take a low dose of aspirin (81-325 mg daily) to control heart disease. But despite its effectiveness, there is evidence that aspirin is less effective in some patients, and researchers do...

Today Cancer is the Deadliest Killer

...mortality rate due to cardiovascular diseases like stroke and heart attacks. But now there is a sharp increase in the deaths due to cancer in the last 25 years. Cardiovascular diseases were responsible for 47 per cent of deaths in Canada in 1979; by 2004, the figure had fallen to 32 per cent. In contrast, c...

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