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Preventing Strokes With Aspirin

...ong-term aspirin therapy for preventing subsequent strokes or heart attacks. TIA is a transient stroke that l...w stroke or TIA. Nearly 80 percent of the ischemic strokes related to aspirin discontinuation occurred in the first eight days after aspirin was stopped. The r...

Blood Thinning Medication Could Prevent Strokes

...imelagatran compared to warfarin for prevention of strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation.It was found that the primary event rate for strokes associated with ximelagatran was 1.6 percent per year and with warfarin was 1.2 percent per year and...

Canada withdraws ADHD drug Adderall XR

... mood swings etc. this is the first time death and strokes in patients are being associated with the drug use. The controversy of Adderall brings into foray once more the long-standing issue for the use of medication in ADHD. While most drugs used in this condition are newly introduced, researchers are stil...

Banning the drug Valdecoxib In India

...b is found to double the risk of heart attacks and strokes and also result in severe skin reactions. Although some of the leading pharmaceutical companies have stopped manufacturing it and have withdrawn the drug from the Indian market, a few leading companies differ in opinion and have adopted a “wait and ...

Water pills for diabetic with high blood pressure

...s in patients with or without diabetes and against strokes in people with or without diabetes. Reference: Archives of Internal Medicine, June 2005...

Clazosentan May help to Improve Blood Circulation after Brain Hemorrhage due to burst Aneurysm

...pprox. 5-14 days following a SAH and this leads to strokes and neurological deficits. This can cause not only significant disability but is also a major cause of death. Patients on the drug also develop fewer cerebral infarcts. Dr Peter Vajkoczy, Neurosurgeon at the Department of Neurosurgery, University H...

Brain damage can affect children who stop breathing

...that the brains of these children show damage like strokes in areas of the brain responsible for cardiovascular system, urination and body temperature. The researchers had used the MRI scan images to come to their findings. The research findings have noted that tissue injury happens in the brain when the p...

Stroke In The Right-Brain Can Remain Undiagnosed

It may be easier to diagnose strokes affecting the left-brain than the right brain, said a report in the recent issue of The Lancet.// The authors state that discrepancy could be due to difficulties in recognizing the symptoms of right-brain stroke. Cerebrovascular events are frequent...

Yet Another Reason To Celebrate Drinking

...ol intake can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by improving circulation. Description: Half a peg some times is good for health. Recent medical research shows that moderate drinkers are better thinkers. So what are you waiting for? Source: Indo-Asian News Service Medindia on alcohol: "Alway...

Physical Activity During Leisure Can Reduce Risk Of Stroke

...he follow up of 19 years, there were 2863 cases of strokes reported. The results of the study had showed that participants who had described their leisure time physical activities as moderate, where they had been active for more than four hours a week, had a 26% lower risk of stroke than participants who ha...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

...men taking no pills showed a rate equivalent to 30 strokes per 100,000 compared to about 60 strokes per 100,000 for women taking second or third-generation pills, still somewhat less than the risk of ...

New birth control to limit women's periods

...enstrual years, women have fewer heart attacks and strokes than men." Rako said other issues are raised, too, when considering period suppression. "We're not just talking about doing away with menstruation," she says. "We're talking about doing away with women's normal hormonal menstrual cycle, which is...

Merck to pay $ 253.5 million to Vioxx victim family

...entific shorthand for cardiovascular problems like strokes or heart attacks. Dr. Jerry Avorn, Professor at Harvard Medical School said he was not surprised that he jury responded as vehemently as it did. br>...

Aspirin Benefits Cardiac Disease Patients, Even Before Surgery

...eeding. The study results suggest a reduction in strokes and related events, but the trend was not strong enough to be statistically significant. This is a very strong association of survival with taking aspirin in the days leading up to surgery said the researcher. The study further confirms aspirin’s be...

Initiation Of New Study To Help Children With Sickle Cell Anaemia

... treatment for children with SCA who have suffered strokes includes monthly blood transfusions to provide red...are of children with the disease who have suffered strokes and finally give a better way to enhance the lives of children who are fighting it hard against the ...

Family Counseling To Encourage Children Eat Healthy

...rs are significant risk factors for heart attacks, strokes and related illnesses. After five counseling sessions spaced over nearly three years, participating children reported eating less fat and salt than other youngsters. The study program was less successful in influencing exercise and smoking habits. ...

All Is Far In Love And War

...uld mean that couples face a greater likelihood of strokes and heart disease. The study results indicate that in addition to the carryover of work stress into domestic life that has been evident for many years, there are also influences of domestic strain on biological function over the working day and eveni...

Women may not be tested often after stroke

...o suffer ischemic strokes. About 88 percent of all strokes are ischemic, which means they’re caused by blood clots traveling to the brain or by blockages in the carotid arteries in the neck that supply blood to the brain. One in every seven people who has a stroke will have another one within a year. The st...

Lesions in the eyes may forecast a stroke

...articipants for seven years, noting which ones had strokes or transient ischemic attacks, or mini-strokes, caused by blocked blood vessels. Special photographs of the retina of the eyes of the participants were taken and examined for changes suggestive of small blood vessel damage, or retinopathy. These sm...

Sexes differ in response to burnout on the job and depression

...related diseases, like diabetes, heart disease and strokes compared with their non-burned out and non-depressed counterparts. Even though burnout and depression affect men and women differently, the health consequences end up being the same. This information can be used to help medical and mental health pr...

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