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Drugs to Tackle Anemia may Be Playing Dracula

...anted number of complications such as blood clots, strokes heart attacks and even early death arising from over use of the drug. This was seen especially in patients with chronic kidney failure. These drugs are among the top 3 selling drugs in the U.S and major producers Amgen and Johnson and Johnson repor...

Genetics may Play Role in Heart Health

... than of any other cause, led by heart attacks and strokes that, in America, together kill// roughly 900,000 ...e. Horne notes that while most heart attacks and strokes strike people 65 and older, the number in younger patients has increased. And each year, more than 6...

NCPAP Decreases Cerebrovascular Risk in OSA Patients

...ous clinically. The need to prevent these types of strokes from developing is obvious." "Silent infarction identified on routine neuroimaging studies, on the other hand, may occur in areas of the brain that can only be detected clinically by detailed neurophysical assessment, or perhaps not at all with cur...

Online Book Helps Children Understand the Effects of Stroke

...huge amount of stress and change. And with 750,000 strokes occurring each year in the United States, there is an urgent need to make important information — such as how to prepare your home for the arrival of a recovering stroke patient — available in an easily accessible format." The center is supported b...

Salt Consumption Needs To Drop Further

...vel. Health experts opine that cardiac arrests and strokes can be prevented by reducing the level of salt intake. According to the report, there is a decrease of salt consumption from 9.5g to 9g when it was last measured in 2001. Men have cut down their salt intake from 11g to 10.2g while in women it is re...

Improved Platelet Life Span Increases Better Patient Care

...elets can trigger dangerous blood clots leading to strokes or heart attacks. Reducing platelet life span may therefore prove valuable in the prevention and management of these life-threatening conditions. Source-Eurekalert JYT...

Antioxidant Molecule Could Help Minimize Stroke-Linked Brain Damage

... Each year, millions of Americans are affected by strokes or "transient ischemic attacks," otherwise called "mini-strokes." Damage to brain tissue occurs not just during the blockage itself, but after the blockage is cleared, as blood rushes back to the site in a process known as reperfusion. "Reperfusion...

Eat Berries, Prevent Colon Cancer

...rs also can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes when used in high doses. Combining pterostilbene with these COX-2 drugs could allow them to be used in lower doses, reducing their risk of adverse side effects, Reddy says. More studies are needed to determine the compound’s efficacy and potential fo...

Gene Mutation Linked With Risks of Stroke

...archers new leads for understanding and preventing strokes as well as the potential for genetic tests to predict who is most at risk. Strokes are the leading cause of disability in the UK and the third most common cause of death after cancer and heart disease. Smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol intake, l...

Plavix Safe During and After Heart Bypass

...perienced less gastrointestinal bleeding and fewer strokes and other cardiovascular complications than patients who were on aspirin alone. "The new off-pump strategy is a proven surgical advance in the treatment of heart disease," Dr. Whellan says. "Improving outcomes for patients undergoing bypass surger...

British Scientists Grow Part of a Human Heart from Stem Cells

...re than 200,000 people died from heart disease and strokes in 2004. And in 2003 nearly 10,000 people needed surgery to replace heart valves with artificial ones. GPL...

Painkiller may Boost Chance of Heart Problems in Patients With Osteoarthritis

...ifference in the total number of heart attacks and strokes among participants at low risk of cardiovascular d...und nine times as likely to have heart attacks and strokes over one year as those on lumiracoxib. This is the first analysis of trial data to show an increas...

Amphetamine, Cocaine Use Increase Risk of Stroke in Young Adults

...stances, then we likely can decrease the number of strokes in this younger population. The implication is tha...o kinds of strokes: hemorrhagic and ischemic. Most strokes – which involve a sudden interruption in the blood supply of the brain – are ischemic, caused by an ...

Different Approach Needed to Protect Brains of Premature Babies

... developing a theory that much of the harm done by strokes and other brain injury begins in this white matter. They suspect that damage to connections between brain cells eventually leads to the cells' deaths. Using the slice model, researchers plan follow-up studies of axons before they're coated in myel...

Drugs for Parkinson’s May Be Useful for Stroke-related Disabilit

...art of a broader effort to precisely determine how strokes in different parts of the brain's right hemisphere...of symptoms. "This approach has been applied to strokes affecting the left hemisphere, where damage to various brain areas is linked to specific kinds of la...

Intravenous Delivery of Clot-busting Drug Still Best Intervention for Ischemic Stroke

...be considered for patients with moderate-to-severe strokes who arrive at the hospital too late to receive intravenous tPA. However, information on these techniques is limited and more research is needed. The new guidelines suggest emergency medical personnel perform a quick stroke assessment, draw blood a...

Hormone Replacement Therapy – To Choose Or No

..., which claimed that HRT has serious risks such as strokes and heart disease. Hence till now, doctors always ...this group of women, the risk of heart disease and strokes is very, very small. The risk of heart disease and strokes exists in the higher age group of women -...

Epogen – Overuse Dangerou

...ous Cardiovascular and Thromboembolic Events, like strokes and heart attacks. The FDA has asked the manufactures to issue a black box warning on the box of the drug. Previous studies have shown that preliminary data collected from a large prospective trial on EPO in critically ill patients showed an impr...

‘For-profit Dialysis Centers’ in the Spotlight Over Anti-anemia Drug Overdoe

...gh hemoglobin increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and blood clots. Healthy kidneys secrete a hormone called erythropoietin which is the catalyst behind the production of red blood cells in the bone marrow. Those patients suffering kidney disease do not produce adequate erythropoietin, therefore the...

Ignorance is Not Bliss- Patients Unaware of Stroke Risk

...ke? It might help to know that almost 40% of these strokes could have been averted with// timely blood pressu... cause of heart attacks. It is possible to prevent strokes by maintaining a check on blood pressure, which can be controlled by eating healthy, indulging in ad...

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