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Drug saves heroin addicts

The drug naloxone saves heroin addicts from overdose and it is advisable for these addicts to have naloxone with them for life saving emergencies, according to doctors at the National Addiction center at London. Naloxone, is routinely given by doctors, during emergency resuscitation following narcotic overdose. After giving 124 drug users in Berlin, Germany, training in emer...

Calcium-blocker delays atherosclerosis than beta-blockers

Researchers make a comparative study showing that calcium channel blockers are more effective at slowing down atherosclerosis than beta-blockers. In new research, a group of 1,800 patients were assigned to either lacidipine,// a calcium-channel blocker, or atenolol, a beta-blocker. Both drugs are used to treat high blood pressure, but act in different ways. The calcium-channel blocker dec...

A new way out for heroin addicts

Heroin addiction is a serious problem that can often be fatal. Methadone has been one of the treatment options for long-term heroin addicts. However, the major concern in treating heroin addicts with methadone is that methadone can become addictive. This is one reason methadone therapy is usually only given to long-term addicts. A new study has now found that an alternative drug therapy c...

Heroin to Treat Addiction

It may sound crazy, but researchers say giving heroin to opiate addicts can help them become less dependent on the drug. Researchers in the Netherlands conducted two separate studies of more than 500 heroin addicts who did not respond to methadone maintenance treatment. Participants were either injected with or inhaled doses of heroin, depending on the study in which they were enrolled.//...

Enlarged waistline may predict atherogenesis for postmenopausal women

A recent study had suggested that an increasing waistline, along with the elevated levels of triglycerides may// be a strong predictor for atherogenesis and cardiac problems for post menopausal women. The study had looked into 557 women for 8.5 yrs to estimate the risk of cardiovascular mortality and the progression rate atherogenesis. Atherogenesis is the process of plaques etc formi...

Eleutherobin From Coral Fights Cancer Cells

A rare Australian coral has found to be effective in the treatment of cancer. Eleutherobin,// a deadly poison which is obtained from the coral is found to kill the cancer cells. Eleutherobin, which is produced from corals, to stop the fish from feeding on the corals, these toxins paralyze and kills the fish which come for feeding on the corals. The toxins were found to be 100 times str...

Researchers Develop Device For Detecting Atherosclerotic Plaques

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center had developed a device that will use light emissions from body tissues to detect the inflammation that is //part of plaque formation in the condition of atherosclerosis. Now, in a study involving laboratory rabbits, a device that stimulates, collects and measures light emissions from body tissues has been able to detect the presence of infla...

General Anesthesia For Heroin Detoxification Is No Good

Research studies have shown that use of general anesthesia for heroin detoxification is no better when compared to other methods of detoxification. The study, which came in the latest issue of JAMA, also points out the fact that use // of general anesthesia in these circumstances can also lead to adverse life threatening events. Medically supervised heroin withdrawal remains plagued by...

Increase Cereal Fibre To Combat Atherosclerosis

New research findings elevate the role of fibres further by stating that cereal fibre and whole-grain products may slow atherosclerosis and plaque build-up in the arteries in postmenopausal women.// Previous studies linked dietary fibre, particularly cereal fibre, with a decreased risk of heart disease and death. Investigating the effect of dietary fibres from cereal, whole-grains, frui...

Another Breather For People At Atherosclerotic Risk

The disease of the elite is fast getting everywhere. Atherosclerosis is a big problem and health hazard these days. Finding a solution in this direction is yet another study. The study states that supplementation of B vitamins can reduce the risk of atherosclerosis // (plaque build-up on the blood vessel walls). It is known that vitamin supplementation can lower homocysteine...

Dietary intake of Vitamin E by type 2 diabetics for prevention of atherosclerosis

Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in both men and women, which increases the risk by 2-6 fold relative to nondiabetic subjects and that 80 percent of all type 2 Diabetes // mellitus patients will die of an atherosclerotic event. In these patients hyperglycemia per se confers increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and so the presence of even bor...

Dietary intake of Vitamin E by type 2 diabetics for prevention of atherosclerosis

Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in both men and women, which increases the risk by 2-6 fold relative to nondiabetic subjects and that 80 percent of all type 2 Diabetes mellitus patients will die of an atherosclerotic event//. In these patients hyperglycemia per se confers increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and so the presence of even bor...

Link Established Between Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution

A research study conducted by American researcher David A. Schwartz, gives us an insight about the relationship that is existing between development atherosclerosis and air pollution consisting of fine particles. // the study was basically done on mice. Two sets of mice were taken; one set was feed high cholesterol diet and exposed to fine particle air pollution. The other set of mice we...

Heroin, Killed 130 People In US

The source of the super-heroin, which made 130 people die in the Midwest of US, is under the investigation of federal and local officials in the U.S. Midwest. // The New York Times reported yesterday that nearly all deaths are in and around Chicago and Detroit city and some are also from St. Louis to Philadelphia. Fentanyl, an additive of heroin is 50 to 100 times more pow...

Salutations For The Selfless Heroes On World Red Cross Day

It's a day to be remembered of the 90 million odd volunteers belonging to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, who are the back bone of the movement//, and whose helping hand is very much essential for providing assistance and support for the needy all over the world. These unsung heroes are richly deserved for the personal sacrifices they make, even risking their li...

Search for Human Pheromone

A study has found that both lesbians and heterosexual men react in a similar way to the smell of certain body odors. // According to a previous study it was found that there were significant differences in brain process of odor in both heterosexual and homosexual men. Pheromones are sex-specific chemicals that send messages to other members of the species. It is well documented in animals...

Highly Pure Form Of heroin Proving To be lethal Killer

Strathclyde police have issued a warning to drug users about the quality of the class-A drug. A lethally pure form of heroin is being sold on the west coast// of Scotland has caused a sharp rise in drug-related deaths. Since the beginning of this year there has been 82 inquiries into drug-related deaths in Strathclyde, compared to 48 for the same period last year. The police have said...

Heroin Addicts Chained For Cure

With their ankles shackled, scores of heroin addicts hobble around the crowded yard of their rehabilitation centre in a unique de-addiction programme in this Manipur district bordering Myanmar in northeastern India. // Two heavy China-made padlocks that are difficult to pick secure the thick manacles around the ankles of 74 druggies as they shamble across the Gamnuam Christian Home pa...

Heroin Use May Reduce In Zurish, Study Says

An alternative heroin policy made in Zurish, led young people to name heroin as a loser drug - a Lancet study finds. Zurich's heroin policy//, which includes providing alternative narcotics and needle exchange programs, has led to fewer users as young people start to consider the substance ‘loser drug,’ a Lancet study said. Researchers at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich sa...

Seizure of Low Quantity of Heroin is No Ground for Bail: HC

New Delhi, June 11 The mere fact that the quantum of narcotics seized from an accused was low will not entitle him to bail, the Delhi High Court has ruled. Dismissing a batch of bail applications moved by those accused of trading in heroin, //Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed directed the trial courts to invoke the criteria of "proportionality" of a sentence period while granting bail in cas...

Vegetarian Diet Prevents the Development of Atherosclerosis

According to the researcher Michael Adams, from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine it is found that vegetables prevent atherosclerosis //. They analyzed the effect by studying five common vegetables and its effect on mice. It reduced the hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) by 38 % when compared to animals eating a non-vegetable diet. The result of the study is publis...

Dental Disease Linked with Carotid Atheromas and Stroke

Recently an UCLA study by a team of researchers have revealed the connection between gum diseases and increased carotid atheromas formation in patients //at a higher risk for stroke. Researchers have explained that this link may be due to blockages containing calcium in the main blood vessels leading to the brain by carotid artery. These blockages, or atheromas, contain calciu...

Atherosclerosis and its Mechanics

Atherosclerosis and the changes associated with it begin at vessel branches and this kind of mechanical stretching begins at those branches which activate// a cellular protein that has been known to damage cells The report is the first to link mechanical forces with structural and biochemical changes in blood vessel cells that could explain why atherosclerotic lesions form preferentially...

Mother's Healthy Diet Protects Baby from Developing Atherosclerosis

According to a study conducted by the researchers at the University of Southampton it was found that the mother's diet in pregnancy influences the child's susceptibility to atherosclerosis. // The study analysed more than 200 nine-year-old children and correlated that the lower the mother's calorific intake during pregnancy, the thicker the child's artery walls. The researchers used ultr...

Naloxone Prevents Heroin Overdose

A drug called naloxone has the potential to stop overdoses in heroin addicts. Hence many needle exchange programs are prescribing this drug to heroin addicts.// The news follows the deaths of at least 400 people who have consumed heroin laced with fentanyl. Prevention Point Philadelphia, a nonprofit organization responsible for needle exchange program in the city has started the distr...

Reducing the Risk of Protease Inhibitor-Related Atherosclerosis

Physiologists may have found a way to decrease the risk of hardening of the arteries that accompanies the long-term use of protease inhibitors//, a class of drugs that has emerged as the most effective treatment against HIV and AIDS. Writing in the American Journal of Physiology–Cell Physiology, researchers from the University of Kentucky found that when mice were given a nucleoside re...

Pomegranate juice may cut atherosclerosis risk in diabetics

An Israeli study has revealed that the risk of atherosclerosis in diabetics may be decreased by drinking pomegranate juice. This condition is characterized by// thickening and hardening of artery walls. 80% of the diabetics who die are affected by atherosclerosis. This study, conducted by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology revealed that there was a decrease in...

More Support for Zinc-antiatherogenic Link

Researchers investigating the link between zinc supplementation and reduced atherosclerosis in rabbit models have used a different method// to lend support to their hypothesis that the effect may be due to a reduction in iron-catalyzed free radical reactions. Researchers from the National University of Singapore reported in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine last year that...

Anti Atherosclerosis Therapies Linked to Leukemia

Scientists studying inflammation and atherosclerosis have recently seen a convergence of their respective fields. Another recent discovery made during the study// of anti atherosclerosis therapies was a tendancy towards development of a dangerous blood cancer known as hronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML. Inflammation is an aspect of the immune response to injury and disease; atheroscl...

Early Onset of Atherosclerosis Reported in Obese Children

Atherosclerosis is a condition that causes clogging and narrowing of the arteries, due to deposition of substances like fat on their walls. //Over a period of time, the plaque build–up may block the blood flowing in. Such hardening of arteries usually happens in adults. But, Canadian researcher Dr. Sanaz Piran and her colleagues at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, have presen...

Afghanistan's double-edged problem - AIDS and Heroin

Between 2001 and 2006, the number of AIDS cases reported from strife-torn Afghanistan, have grown from a manageable 8 to a formidable 61. //The increasing use of heroin has raised concern amongst health authorities as a significant cause of abetting the spread of AIDS in the nation. Anti-narcotics Minister Mohammad Zafar explained how the number of heroin users in Kabul has gone up fr...

Prescription Opioids Abused More Than Heroin - A Report Says

A new study conducted in seven Canadian cities reveals that the legal prescription drugs such as OxyContin or Demerol is becoming more prevalent //than heroin, raising questions about drug control in the country. The research shows that the users turning to opioids or prescription painkillers are at increasing rate though heroin addiction is one of the most significant problems in Canada...

Opioid Abuse More Prevalent than Heroin

A new study conducted in seven Canadian cities reveals that prescription opioids, and not heroin, are the major form of illicit opioid use. //These findings raise questions about the current focus of Canada's drug control policy and treatment programs. A team led by Dr. Benedikt Fischer, a researcher funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and based at the Centre fo...

Painkiller Dihydrocodeine May Replace Methodone In Treating Heroin Addicts

Scottish researchers from Universities of Edinburgh, Napier and Adelaide have found out an alternative painkiller, dihydrocodeine for treating HEROIN addicts.// The new drug costs half as much as methadone and is much safer and less toxic too. ‘The study findings could have major implications for drug treatment programmes’- say the researchers of the study. This three and a half year lo...

Heroin Injection may Lead to Wound Botulism

In a case study in PLoS Medicine, doctors report on the case of a 35 year old heroin user who came to the accident and emergency department //with double vision, slurred speech, drooping eyelids, and eye muscle weakness. The diagnosis turned out to be wound botulism. Wound botulism is a potentially fatal illness that occurs when spores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum contaminate...

Human Pheromones: Fact and Fiction

Valentine’s Day often brings hopes of romance, sometimes spurring aspiring Romeos or Juliets to seek assistance from products marketed as human pheromones. // It’s just wishful thinking, according to George Preti, PhD and Charles Wysocki, PhD, scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. 'We still have much to learn about pheromonal communication in humans. However, bas...

Genetic-Key to Stop Heroin Addicts

Researchers from University of Adelaide in the Discipline of Pharmacology have found a genetic key for improving treatment success rates of heroin addicts around// the world. They have discovered a gene that helps determining the optimum methadone dosage levels for heroin addicts. The study reveals why people are either less efficient or more effective in distributing drugs throughout...

Shop Till You Drop Heroin - Plan to Provide Incentives to Drug Users

A plan to provide incentives to drug users on methadone for heroin addiction, on the likes of shopping vouchers,// might be a way to encourage drug users to give up the habit, a draft guidance has indicated. Such incentive schemes employed in the past, in the United States, have always proved worthy. As per the plan suggested, users should be given compensation, if their urine or bloo...

Foul Play- Football Hero Convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault

It is no easy game now for Trevis Smith, once- upon- a -time hero of Regina//. The Canadian football league linebacker was convicted of aggravated sexual assault last Thursday. The 31-year-old football player was quiet as the judge announced the verdict of the trial, which has been going on for some time. The sentence to be announced later will involve a prison te...

Atherothrombosis Patients at High Risk for CV Events

A large, international study finds that patients with arterial disease have relatively high risk of experiencing a cardiovascular// event (such as heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death) within one year. This study is published in the March 21 issue of JAMA. Atherothrombosis (arterial disease, such as coronary artery disease [CAD], cerebrovascular disease [CVD], and peripheral art...