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Constipation Drug Linked to Heart Attack Pulled Out

...s, including myocardial infarction (heart attack), unstable angina (chest pain), and stroke, associated with use of the drug.' Doctors who prescribe Zelnorm should work with their patients and switch over to more appropriate treatment, the FDA has said. GP...

Dry Eye Syndrome Affects Visual Functions

...ciency in the quantity and/or quality of tears, an unstable tear film, ocular surface damage and bothersome sy...mportance for clear vision. DES patients with an unstable tear film can usually clear a blurred image temporarily by blinking frequently to redistribute the t...

Modified Ligament Surgery Improves Outcomes Players, Athletes

...the elbow to examine and fix residual problems. An unstable ligament leads to a shifting elbow, which can cause further problems such as cartilage damage. Second, Dr. Altchek gains access to the bone in a different way. In the Jobe surgery, surgeons detach major muscles and move the so-called ulnar nerve ou...

Intense Cessation Treatment Proves Successful in High-Risk Smokers

...reighton University Cardiac Center, suffering from unstable angina, heart attack, or severe coronary heart disease. All of the patients were self-identified smokers and agreed to undergo smoking cessation intervention. Patients were then randomized into two groups: the intensive intervention group (109) and t...

Sentry Enzyme Blocks Two Paths to Parkinson’s Diseas

... of the substantia nigra. Free radicals are highly unstable molecules that readily interact with other molecules, causing cell damage. The study sheds light on the cause of most cases of Parkinson’s disease, which currently are unexplained. “The majority of these cases of Parkinson’s disease appear to aris...

Coffee: Is It Good or Bad for You?

...helpful substances, found in foods, which scavenge unstable molecules (free radicals) in your body. Free radicals contribute to oxidative stress, which, over time, can cause inflammation and other unhealthy changes in your cells. The February issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource highlights news about...

Childhood Obesity Could Damage the Feet Structure

...hom were obese, found that the obese children were unstable when they walked. They spent more time balancing on two feet when walking and less time on one foot than normal weight children. They also walked at a slower pace, it said. "Obese children are less stable when walking and cannot walk efficiently,"...

Some Evidence Shows Chinese Herbal Medicine Helps Angina Patients

...nts experience a regular pattern of chest pain. In unstable angina, patients experience unpredictable pain due...ere are very clearly drawn guidelines for treating unstable angina based on numerous clinical trials,” said James L. Weiss, M.D., director of the cardiology fel...

Cinnamon extract in reduction of risk of metabolic syndrome

...syndrome causes central obesity, hypertension, and unstable glucose and insulin metabolism and affects approximately 32% of the Americans. The current study was presented this month at the 47th annual meeting of the American College of Nutrition. According to it, cinnamon may enhance insulin sensitivity in ...

Osteoarthritis May be Sign of Faster “Biological Ageing

...(oxidative stress). Oxygen free radicals are the unstable molecules produced as a by-product of normal bodily processes, as well as external factors, such as tobacco, alcohol, and sunlight. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, with the hands being one of the sites most often affected. Its ...

Early Statin Therapy for Patients Reduces Death, Cardiovascular Events

...cular outcomes, particularly cardiovascular death, unstable angina and revascularization when prescribed within 14 days of hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome,” the authors write. “These benefits took more than four months to begin to accrue and were sustained for two years. During these two years, th...

Findings Suggest New Method to Fight Staph Infections

... water and preserve food. Unfortunately, it is too unstable to ship as a gas and must be produced on site. Historically, this has required bulky equipment and training of personnel to operate the equipment. What makes his research significant is the new method used to generate chlorine dioxide. Instead of b...

Rare Transplant Gives B.C Youngster 4 New Organs

...we don't really understand, the patient can become unstable when the blood supply goes into the new liver." However despite the potential complications, Gairett's surgery went on smoothly and his parents found him sitting up in bed, talking in a strong voice, looking healthier than he had in months. His fat...

Venereal Cancer in Dogs Transmitted by Contagious Cancer Cells

...chromosomes in the tumor cells tend to become more unstable with repeated divisions. But researchers found no evidence of that in CTVT. Weiss said that the findings challenge the idea that there is "an inevitable progression of cancer towards more instability." The possibility of other transmissible cance...

Recurrent Stroke Risk is Minimized by Statin

...rcent; their risk of cardiovascular events such as unstable angina by 42 percent; and their need for coronary revascularization procedures, such as coronary artery bypass grafting or cardiac catheterization, by 45 percent, compared to treatment with an inactive placebo. In the trial, the researchers enrolle...

Emergency Heart Patients Do Better With Invasive Approach

... The researchers looked at two heart conditions: unstable angina, which is acute, accelerating chest pain, and a kind of heart attack known as non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, which is diagnosed in part by ECG. Together, these conditions account for 1.4 million hospital admissions yearly in the Uni...

Digitalis Could Be Safe In Diastolic Heart Failure

...was also a trend of increased hospitalizations for unstable angina. The lead author on the report is Ali Ahmed, M.D., M.P.H., from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Senior author is Mihai Gheorghiade, M.D., from Northwestern University. "These results are somewhat of a paradigm shift," said Kitzman. ...

Significant Increase In Heart Diseases Found In Older People Living Alone

...ith a 1st episode of acute coronary syndrome, like unstable angina, myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, or in combinations. The researchers identified 138,290 residents of Aarhus who were representative of 5% of the entire Danish population of men and women between the ages of 30 and 69. They collect...

Advance in Program for Development of Non-Intravenous Therapy for Hemophilia

...ause blood-clotting proteins are large, relatively unstable molecules, current hemophilia therapies can only be administered intravenously, which is an invasive and technically demanding procedure. It is presently not possible to administer these molecules by non-intravenous routes because of poor distributio...

Children in Poverty at Risk of Mental Health Problems

...om several mental health-related problems, such as unstable tempers, insomnia and obsessive and depressive disorders. Those brought up in care or as asylum-seekers are also at a heightened risk. Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of BMA ethics and science, has called attention to the 45 per cent of children that...

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