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Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks
...alarming. The number of people with kidney failure treated by dialysis is expected to surpass 650,000 by the year 2010. From these findings, the researchers urge all doctors to be aware that kidney patients fall into the highest risk category for cardiovascular disease. The American Heart Association also ...Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks
...alarming. The number of people with kidney failure treated by dialysis is expected to surpass 650,000 by the year 2010. From these findings, the researchers urge all doctors to be aware that kidney patients fall into the highest risk category for cardiovascular disease. The American Heart Association also r......ion treatment was more than two years. In patients treated only with TACE, the median survival was just over a year. Researchers say there is another benefit to this type of treatment. This treatment is local, Dr. Vogl says. "With local chemotherapy, the patients have no pain and don’t lose their hair. This...Bone Marrow Cells Help Heart Attack Patients
... in 2001. Results from that trial showed a patient treated with stem cells made from his own bone marrow had ...Germany examined 40 heart attack patients who were treated with balloon angioplasty and had mesh tube stents implanted to keep their vessels open. Twenty patie...New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment
... quality of life. Researchers report the patients treated with the higher dose of CTLA4Ig were more likely to have an ACR 20 than patients who received placebo. Higher rates of ACR 50 and ACR 70 were seen in both groups on the drug compared to placebo. The patients on the higher dose of the drug also saw im...Psoriasis Increases Cancer Risk
... the patients with psoriasis who had lymphoma were treated with medications consistent with psoriasis treatment. While researchers conclude there is an association between psoriasis and lymphoma, they feel additional research needs to be done to determine if this association is related to psoriasis severity,......to treat acne. Many rosacea patients are generally treated with metronidazole gel, an antibiotic commonly used to treat infections of the small intestines and colon. In a study, researchers compared the safety and efficacy of azelaic gel versus metronidazole gel in rosacea patients. They found the azelaic g...New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment
... quality of life. Researchers report the patients treated with the higher dose of CTLA4Ig were more likely to have an ACR 20 than patients who received placebo. Higher rates of ACR 50 and ACR 70 were seen in both groups on the drug compared to placebo. The patients on the higher dose of the drug also saw im...Uterine Fibroid Embolization Gaining Popularity
...elf, then, it’s an issue of whether they should be treated or not.” Hormone therapy can help shrink fibroids, and a momentum removes them. A hysterectomy is often a last resort. “The number of hysterectomies performed in the [United States] per year is in the neighborhood of 600,000; 200,000 of which are pe...Preventive Therapies Found to be More Effective in Managing Migraines
...nt for migraines. One study shows half of patients treated with topiramate had a 50-percent reduction in the frequency of their migraines, more than 25 percent had a more than 75-percent reduction in headaches, and migraines were completely eliminated in 6 percent of the patients. They say another promisi......nged survival time. What’s more, 33 percent of the treated monkeys actually survived the disease and regained their health. Just one of the monkeys in the control group survived until the end of the study, and that monkey subsequently died. The authors write, “Our results have great clinical implications, s......verity Index. Twenty-seven percent of the patients treated with efalizumab scored at least 75 percent, while only 4 percent of patients in placebo group achieved this score. Patients who took efalizumab also reported a better quality of life than those in the placebo group. Efalizumab is a biologic drug tha...Vitamin- B Supplements Beneficial in Depression Treatment
New research reports, patients who were treated for depression responded better if they had a higher level of vitamin B12 in their blood.// An increasing amount of research is looking at the association between vitamin B and depression, but the specifics have not been understood. Researchers cond...Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned
...g-term therapy. Adult height of asthmatic children treated with ICS therapy is not substantially different from adult height attained by nonasthmatic children. Conclusions could not be drawn on the effect of ICS therapy on bone thinning in adults or eye problems such as cataracts and glaucoma due to a lack ...Stronger Backing for Drug-Coated Stents
...ith previously untreated blocked arteries who were treated with drug-eluting stents. An additional 450 patients with comparable blockages were treated with bare metal stents. Sixty-eight percent of the patients in this trial did not meet the selection...Multi-Drug Therapy Effective in Lowering Blood Pressure
...limeters of mercury (diastolic). The patients were treated with a calcium antagonist strategy (CAS) or a non-calcium antagonist strategy (NCAS). Researchers reported that after two years the blood pressure goals that were achieved were similar between the two groups. In the CAS patients, 65 percent of pati...Drug-Coated Stents – Proven to be More Effectiv
...ith previously untreated blocked arteries who were treated with drug-eluting stents. An additional 450 patients with comparable blockages were treated with bare metal stents. Results of the one-year study show 9.7 percent of patients who received dr...Head injury X-rays may actually be causing harm
...amined the educational level achieved by 3,094 men treated in this way between 1930 and 1959. They report in the British Medical Journal that the more radiation the boys were given before the age of 18 months, the lower their subsequent intellectual level. Those given the highest doses were about half as l...Understanding The Predictors Of Prostate Cancer
...rs that measured a Gleason score of seven and were treated with radical prostatectomy. They looked at the patient outcomes based on their Gleason pattern (GP). Different Gleason patterns of the tumor also help determine the Gleason score. In the study group, researchers say 307 patients had primary GP thre...Vasopressin Found To Boost Survival In Sudden Cardiac arrest
... Researchers studied 1,186 cardiac arrest patients treated in 33 communities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland from 1999 to 2002. After ambulance crews tried defibrillation, half the patients not resuscitated then got one or more injections of vasopressin and the other half got epinephrine.Using vasopress...Other Tagsdiscern 2utilization 2utilization 3overtime 2simpler 2simpler 3gearing 2Other Contentsmetastaticmetastaticmetastaticmetastaticmetastaticmetastasismetastasismetastasismetastasismetatarsalridgeridge
(Date:12/4/2009)NEW YORK, Dec. 4 Care Investment Trust Inc. (NYSE: CRE ) ("Care" or the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend of $0.17 per share of common stock. The div
(Date:12/4/2009)SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 4 Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. ("HTA"), a self-managed, non-traded, real estate investment trust, announced the execution of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a th
(Date:12/4/2009)WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 In response to the U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Agency,s (DEA) classification of boldione, desoxymethyltestosterone, and 19-nor-4,9(10)-androstadienedione as "anabolic
(Date:12/4/2009)More than 15 million Americans are recruited annually to participate in clinical trials according to the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), and most will be compensated for their participa
(Date:12/4/2009)Move a response to pressure from federal regulators to crack down on abuse of opioid medications , , FRIDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The makers of 24 different prescription painkillers on F
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(Date:12/4/2009)The body is a battle zone. Cells constantly compete with one another for space and dominance. Though the manner in which some cells win this competition is well known to be the survival of the fittest
(Date:12/4/2009)The electroencephalogram (EEG) is widely used by physicians and scientists to study brain function and to diagnose neurological disorders. However, it has remained largely unknown whether the electrod
(Date:12/3/2009)In the 1980s, Harald zur Hausen and his co-workers discovered that specific types of human papillomavirus (HPV) cause cervical cancer. Scientists soon found out how these pathogens cause cells to dege
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