Lowering in Medical News

ICM Controls' Award-Winning Comfort Control Center Improves Comfort and Indoor Air Quality While Lowering Energy Costs

Helps Remove Excess Moisture for Increased Comfort, Reduced Risk of Mold (PRWEB) June 22, 2009 -- ICM Controls, a leader in the manufacture and supply of electronic controls to the HVACR industry, introduces its multi award-winning CC750 Comfort Control Center, an adv...

New Online Home Health Service Launched in California to Expand Direct Patient Care Time While Lowering Costs

Today, HealthCare California announces that it is the first home health agency in California to implement an online service that answers the call from national leaders to utilize technology to improve health care. This home health software service equips all HealthCare California nursing and adm...

Can lowering body temperature prevent brain damage in children who suffer cardiac arrest?

ANN ARBOR, Mich. In the first large-scale study of its kind, researchers at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the University of Utah will lead a multi-center study to investigate whether hypothermialowering body temperaturecan prevent or reduce brain damage in childre...

Two-Year Data Show Investigational Drug Liraglutide More Effective at Lowering Blood Sugar Than Glimepiride

NEW ORLEANS, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novo Nordisk (NVO) data presented at the 69th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) showed that once-daily liraglutide, taken as monotherapy, leads to statistically significant and sustained reductions in blood sugar and...

DHA Hailed as Breakthrough Treatment for Lowering Risk of Developmental Disorders in Premature Infants; Animi-3(R) Prescribed to Women Who Are Not Eating Fish

GORDONSVILLE, Va., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) have demonstrated high doses of DHA-dominant omega-3 fatty acids administered to premature infants via their mother's breast milk can reduce the risk of developmental disorde...

Strict Blood Sugar Lowering Wont Ease Diabetes Heart Risk

Blood pressure, cholesterol control may be type 2 diabetics' best bet, researchers say WEDNESDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Intensive lowering of blood sugar in people with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes does not have a significant effect on reducing cardiovascular events, such as...

Fish oil and red yeast rice studied for lowering blood cholesterol

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A great deal of scientific evidence shows that cholesterol-reducing medications known as statins can help prevent coronary artery disease. Although the safety of these medications has been well documented, as many as 40 percent of patients who receive a prescription for statins...

New Study Shows Lowering Co-payments Can Lead to Lower Total Healthcare Costs, Improved Overall Health

Study Published in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Investigates Relationship of Co-payments, Medication Adherence, and Health Resource Utilization PHILADELPHIA, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- High prescription drug co-payments are associated with...

Amount of Exercise Key to Lowering Kids' Blood Pressure

Study finds total levels of activity more important than intensity TUESDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to lowering children's blood pressure, the amount of exercise they get may be more important than the intensity. That's the suggestion of a British study of 5,505 boys and gir...

Abbott's Investigational SIMCOR(R) Offers Comparable LDL Lowering to Simvastatin and Significantly Raises HDL and Lowers Triglycerides in Phase III Study

Six Percent of Patients Discontinued Combination Therapy Due to Flushing ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- New data released today showed that Abbott's SIMCOR(R), an investigational, fixed-dose combination of Abbott's proprietary extended-release niacin, Niaspan(R), and simvastat...

Stanford study highlights cost-effective method of lowering heart disease risks

STANFORD, Calif. - As U.S. policy experts continue to search for ways to re-engineer the country's health-care system, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that a case-management approach helped a diverse group of patients reduce their overall risk of heart disease by ...

Kardea Enhances Medical Nutrition System for Cholesterol Lowering

Kardea Nutrition LLC enhances it system for natural cholesterol lowering with the introduction of Fiber Plus with Plant Sterols , a unique blend of nutrients proven to lower cholesterol. Hamden, Conn (PRWEB) May 4, 2009 -- Kardea Nutrition LLC enhances it system fo...

Animal Research Uncovers Another Mechanism of Cholesterol Lowering Drug

New research in animals suggests why the commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering drug ezetimibe (Zetia) is so potent. The research, reported by scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, is reported online today by the Journal of Clinical Investigation and will appear in the July 2 ...

Cholesterol Lowering Statins may Prevent Parkinson’s Diseas

US researchers from University of North Carolina have reported an interesting find: statins, or drugs used to reduce levels of LDL or bad cholesterol may actually have an added benefit; //reduce the chance of developing Parkinson’s disease. At present, around a million Australians use pop statin...

In Elderly Patients Lowering Contrast Material Injection Will Reduce Costs

A new study says that in elderly patients who are undergoing multi-detector CT examination of the pancreas and biliary region, doctors may safely reduce the dose of a contrast agent by 10 percent. // Doing this will reduce the costs as well as the risks associated with the tests, according to the s...

Marijuana may be Helpful in Lowering Blood Pressure

A chemical compound found in cannabis, also known as hashish or marijuana, may help lower blood pressure, say scientists after testing it on rats //. Yehoshua Maor, a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, has created a synthetic version of a minor cannabis constituent name...

Good Diet Can Be An Alternate To Drugs In Lowering Cholesterol

Scientists in Canada has said that choosing and eating the right kind of food can be an alternate to drug therapy in lowering the cholesterol level//. David Jenkins and other researchers at the University of Toronto studied people who ate a diet high in viscous fibres, soy protein, almonds and...

Worry on the lowering of the already low birth-rate in Japan.

Intensifying fears of a lowering birth-rate is the incidence of more than half Japanese women who are childless at 30.// There is a decline in the Japanese population and policy makers are worried about this problem. The baby shortage, as it is called, is now an urgent problem for policy makers,...

Bird flu: the threat causes lowering in poultry stocks

Due to the news that that bird flu was found in chickens in a village in Selangor, poultry stocks plummeted to low levels in Malaysia. The change has affected Leong Hup, Farm's Best and CAB// Cakaran stockers the most. Leong Hup fell 82 sen to RM2.66 while Farm's Best shares and warrants l...

Anti-anxiety treatment found effective in lowering blood pressure

Acute blood pressure (BP) increase is one of the most common causes for referral to the emergency room. In most patients the condition, although urgent, is not an emergency, and intravenous treatment is not required//. There are no guidelines on how to treat patients with acute BP elevation or exce...

Plant – based Foods More Effective In Lowering Cholestero

After comparing people on two different types of low fat, low cholesterol diets researchers say they have found that people who consumed a traditional diet consisting of lean meats and other low fat foods lowered // their LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, by about 4.6 percent. However, those who consumed ...

Plant – based Foods More Effective In Lowering Cholesterol

After comparing people on two different types of low fat, low cholesterol diets researchers say they have found that people who consumed a traditional diet consisting of lean meats and other low fat foods lowered // their LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, by about 4.6 percent. However, those who consumed ...

Dark Chocolate Is Helpful In Lowering Blood Pressure.

A study conducted recently links dark chocolate consumption to improved insulin sensitivity //and lowered hypertension. The study reveals that three ounces of dark chocolate a day for several weeks lowers blood pressure by an average of 10 percent and improves insulin sensitivity in patients with h...

Fibre Rich Food A Boon For Lowering Cholesterol

A study has revealed that consumption of fruits, vegetables and foods high in fibre can significantly// lower cholesterol levels and eventually lowering the risk of heart disease. Western cuisines are not so high in fibre and so the study recommends including more plant foods in the diet. 10 ...

Using Cholesterol Lowering Drugs Effectively

Based on findings of a recent study researchers say Lipid-lowering drugs can be started when a patient is in the hospital // or at a follow-up appointment with a doctor. Researchers looked at the relationship between when lipid-lowering therapy is started during a hospital stay vs. in an outpat...

Almonds As Effective As Certain Drugs In Lowering Cholesterol

New research shows a diet that consists of healthy foods, including almonds, may be as effective in lowering cholesterol as certain drugs. Researchers say incorporating almonds // into one’s diet might help to moderately lower cholesterol levels. The easiest substitutions to try might include a sn...

Almonds found To Be Effective In Lowering Cholesterol

New research shows a diet that consists of healthy foods, including almonds, may be as effective in lowering cholesterol as certain drugs. Researchers say incorporating almonds // into one’s diet might help to moderately lower cholesterol levels. The easiest substitutions to try might include a sn...

Multi-Drug Therapy Found To Be More Effective in Lowering B.P

Researchers from the University of Florida College of Medicine designed a randomized trial to compare two different treatments for hypertension // in older patients. Researchers say most patients require more than one medication to control their blood pressure, so this study was set up to look at m...

Multi-Drug Therapy Effective in Lowering Blood Pressure

Researchers from the University of Florida College of Medicine designed a randomized //trial to compare two different treatments for hypertension in older patients. Researchers say most patients require more than one medication to control their blood pressure, so this study was set up to look at...

Cholesterol lowering drugs aid people after heart transplant

According to a new study, there is a large survival benefit in taking cholesterol-lowering drugs after a heart transplant. Researchers in Munich have studied the effect of taking simvastatin soon after a heart transplant. //They looked at a group of 72 patients who had had heart transplants from 19...

Cholesterol lowering drugs increase neuropathy risk

According to a new study taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called 'statins' could elevate the risk of peripheral neuropathy. Previous research has shown the benefits of statins, drugs that lower cholesterol levels. However, researchers in Texas now reveal that the drugs might// increase their ri...

CareFirst Joins Partnership of Blues Plans as Owner of NASCO

...ms processing for nearly 500,000 large group contracts for CareFirst by January 2010. NASCO is committed to maximizing customer performance and lowering operational costs through its unique shared-system environment and consistently high performance. With the ability to automatically adjudicate high p...

Almost Family Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...stration, Congress and all those working on comprehensive health care reform understand how important home health care is as a part of the solution to lowering health care costs and ensuring access to care for all America's seniors." Second Quarter Financial Results Almost Family reported seco...

Pilot study: Workplace yoga and meditation can lower feelings of stress

...tress reduction, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, has been studied widely and determined to be useful in lowering symptoms ranging from depression and anxiety to chronic pain. But the time commitment required in the program makes it impractical for busy working pr...

Access to America's Orthopaedic Services Act of 2009 Introduced in the Senate

...adership on improving the ability of patients to access affordable, quality orthopaedic care." The budget-neutral AAOS Act offers solutions to lowering the cost of treating bone and joint conditions -- with a current annual domestic price tag of $849 billion. "The effects of musculoskeletal di...

High cholesterol in midlife raises risk of late-life dementia, Kaiser Permanente study finds

...s here is that what is good for the heart is also good for the mind, and this is an early risk factor for dementia that can be modified and managed by lowering cholesterol through healthy lifestyle changes." This study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, adds to other research emphasizing the imp...

High Cholesterol in Midlife Raises Risk of Late-Life Dementia, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds

...s here is that what is good for the heart is also good for the mind, and this is an early risk factor for dementia that can be modified and managed by lowering cholesterol through healthy lifestyle changes." This study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, adds to other research emphasizing the...

Metformin May Lower Diabetics' Odds for Pancreatic Cancer

...the risk SUNDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Metformin, one of the most widely used diabetes drugs, may offer patients the added benefit of lowering their odds for pancreatic cancer by 60 percent, a new study shows. But the study had a downside: Other common treatments, including the use of insu...

Do the Swiss Have the Answer to America's Health Care Dilemma?

... A primary advantage of such a consumer-controlled system, proponents say, is that it spreads risk across the full population spectrum, thereby lowering loss ratios and enabling lower premiums. It also keeps a proven health care delivery system in place, which government-controlled plans would necessar...

American Association for Homecare Supports Crackdown on Medicare Scammers in Houston, Boston, New York, Louisiana

...llegal activity," said American Association for Homecare President Tyler J. Wilson. "Eliminating fraud and abuse will benefit patients and seniors by lowering costs and increasing quality of care. We urge Congress to adopt new regulations, like those outlined in our 13-point plan, and we support tough enfor...