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Pfizer Launches Viagra For Lung Disease In UK

... artery that carries blood to the lungs. The blood vessel disorder is frequently seen in women between the age of 20 to 40 years. More than 100,000 people worldwide are believed to suffer from this disorder. Following the launch of Revatio in Britain, Tracleer medicine, a leading product for the condition...

Cholesterol mystery solved through research mice

...DL are produced in macrophages, cells in the blood vessel walls that are involved in the formation of plaque...third group of mice – which produces no HDL in the vessel walls – the scientists hope to answer a conundrum about this source of good cholesterol. Previous re...

Bad Enzymes Found To Enable Brain Recovery Following Stroke

...nd has been found to result in growth of new blood vessel in the damaged brain region. In addition it induce.... This can occur either due to blockage of a blood vessel though blood clot or rupture of a blood vessel, supplying the brain. Following stroke, MMPs eat away...

DVT Risk Increased After Acute Infections

...ould have been caused by inflammation in the blood vessel linked with infection. Statistics show that DVT contributes to about 10% of deaths among hospital patients each year. Usually they occur in the leg veins but can also break off and lodge in the small vessels in the lung. If this occurs the conditio...

Neck Artery Treatment Apart From Clearing Plaques Boosts Memory

...tors inflate a balloon to push the plaque into the vessel wall and then implant the stent, to keep the artery open. Dr. Raabe's research team said that stenting typically improves blood flow to the brain. But it an also occasionally unleash a temporary shower of microdebris that can disrupt brain functions ...

Trans-radial Angiograms: A Boon For Cardiac Patients

...hi: When Ramya Sharma suffered from cardiac triple vessel disease, she went for a trans-radial angiogram. Instead of a recovery of several hours associated with a // conventional artery study, she was watching TV within minutes and back home in two hours. "More people are now opting for the new technique -...

Assam's Floating Hospital To Render Medical Services To Islanders

...ommodate health personnel and professionals. 'This vessel can be turned into a classroom to train paramedics during winters when the water level is too shallow to set sail,' Hazarika added. This specialised boat was funded by prize money from a World Bank competition won by C-NES volunteers and a group of g...

Link Between Obesity And Heart Disease Revealed

...around the body secrete hormones that affect blood vessel function, but this is the first time that researchers have paid careful attention to fat cells lying close to blood vessels in the heart," said Jeremy Pearson, associate medical director of the British Heart Foundation. --Edited IANS...

Lost molecule holds the key to lung cancer

...proteins help mange the growth of cells, the blood vessel formation and cell death, which can all get haywire when a person is afflicted with cancer. Samples of lung tumor tissue from nearly 46 lung cancer patients and similar numbers of lung tissue from healthy patients were compared by researchers, and th...

Fat cells lethally connected to heart disease

...around the body secrete hormones that affect blood vessel function, but this is the first time that research...t these cells may be important regulators of blood vessel growth and repair that have previously gone unrecognized. They should be investigated further in fut...

Fat Cells Can Trigger Heart Diseases

...around the body secrete hormones that affect blood vessel function, this is the first time that researchers ...of these cells being important regulators of blood vessel growth and repair might have previously gone unrecognised. He suggested that they should in future i...

Jolt to Quit Smoking

... the amount of adrenaline, which can lead to blood vessel constriction and decreased blood flow to the heart...tting factors, which can raise the chance of blood vessel blockage. In addition, the hemoglobin in smokers' blood has carbon monoxide attached to it and can't...

Nanotechnology Could Revolutionize Cardiac Treatment

...mation and causes plaque buildup at specific blood vessel sites. Their approach contrasts with today's statin drug therapy, which aims to reduce the amount of low-density lipids, or LDLs (‘bad’ cholesterol), throughout the body. In an ironic twist, the Rutgers approach aims to thwart a biological process ...

Investigators Find Poisonous Chemicals In Four More Drugs In China

...in children; Puerarin, which is injected for blood vessel diseases; Yansuan Naifupan, injected to treat pain; and Shuqisong, injected to treat arthritis and respiratory system disorders. The administration have said that a total of 12 batches of the five drugs made by the Qiqihar a No. 2 Pharmaceutical Co...

Cocoa good for skin?

...been previously reported to improve blood flow and vessel function. In this new study, 24 healthy women (a...dies that demonstrated significant improvements in vessel function, in this study, the regular consumption of flavanol-rich cocoa resulted in a significant in...

Osteoporosis – A New Treatmen

...n other cells to regulate heart development, blood vessel formation, neural development and function, and muscle development. Its function seems to depend on the time and place of its activation, like a context-sensitive key on a computer. In bone, it is NFATc1 that seems particularly important. Since pe...

115 people on board a cruise liner taken ill due to suspected Norovirus

...ach year. According to Dave Forney, chief of the vessel sanitation program, 'The reason you hear about Norovirus on cruise ships is because they are required to report every incidence of gastrointestinal illness. Nowhere else in the public health system of the United States is Norovirus a reportable illne...

Meditation may Improve Cardiac Risk Factors in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

...edical history review and underwent tests of blood vessel function and heart rate variability. Heart rate variability testing assesses the functioning of the autonomic nervous system, which controls the heart and other involuntary muscles. Overall, of the 103 participants who were enrolled, 84 (82 perce...

Growth Factor Aids in Regeneration of Heart Blood Vessel

..., which were carried out for two important blood vessel growth factors, fibroblast growth factor- 2 (FGF2)...t disease because it specifically stimulates blood vessel formation and does so by orchestrating the expression of multiple other growth factors that work tog...

Growth Factors Help Neurons to Reach Their Correct Destination

...ers of the FGF growth factor family regulate blood vessel formation, wound repair, lung maturation, and development of skeletal muscle, blood and bone marrow cells. The Salk study adds on more job to an already long list. ‘Our study emphasizes that the nervous system does not necessarily rely on an entirely...

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