New Study Demonstrates Ramelteon Does Not Exacerbate Respiratory Depressant Effects in Patients With Moderate-to-Severe COPD

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study presented today showed that ramelteon did not exacerbate respiratory depressant effects in patients (40 years and older) with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as measured by oxygenation or abnormal breathing even...

High Blood Pressure Could Exacerbate Alzheimer's

Slowed blood flow to the brain may be to blame, MRI study shows FRIDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure reduces blood flow to the brains of Alzheimer's patients and exacerbates the symptoms of the disease, a new study finds. A team at the University of Pittsburgh used MRI to m...

Message for Activists at Latino National Congreso Convention: Amnesty Will Exacerbate National Problems and Turn the U.S. into Another Mexico

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to the November 2006 Rand Corp. study, health care provided to illegal adult migrants alone costs about $6.4 billion a year nationally and that 68 percent of illegal migrants are uninsured. If another amnesty were adopted, tens of mi...

Wild Bird Culls may Exacerbate Avian Flu Problem

More than 30 experts from 19 countries holding an international summit on bird flu in Aviemore this week are of the opinion that culls of wild birds are not an answer to the outbreaks of avian flu. The summit was organised by the Avian Flu Task Force under the UN international conve...

Make Eye Exams Part of the Back to School Routine

...ficantly alter a student's performance. And, new technology changes in the classroom, such as the use of interactive whiteboards, can also potentially exacerbate less obvious vision problems. Without healthy vision, students may suffer not only in the classroom, but also mentally, physically and emotionally." ...

SCAI Opposes U.S. House of Representatives Health Reform Bill in Current Form

...cess to specialists. Reducing funding to train specialty physicians, combined with further reductions in Medicare payments to specialists, will exacerbate the growing shortage of specialty physicians such as interventional cardiologists, which means patients having life-threatening heart attacks may not ...

Iowa Committee Produces Principles for National Efforts to Reform Health Care

... quality, affordable, health care for all Americans - a goal that the Committee supports. However, simply expanding access to the current system would exacerbate its problems. Costs would rise and quality might not improve. That is why our primary recommendation is that any effort to change the health care syst...

Photos: Don't Let Them See You Sweat This Summer

...e long summer days and plan an early morning or late evening workout. Know your medications: There are a number of common medications that can exacerbate sweating. Make sure to check with your physician before you start any new medication, especially during the warmer summer months. Talk to a der...

A New Government-Run Plan Would Impose Significant Financial Losses on California Hospitals

... face losses of more than 30 percent if all patients switched to a government-run plan that paid Medicare rates. Government-run plan would exacerbate cost-shifting Government programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, currently underpay providers for services. In California, Medicare reimb...

The Empire State Healthcare Coalition Voices Concern Over the Affordable Health Choices Act

...ive employer based health and wellness coverage and an increase in both private coverage costs and the federal deficit. The government-run plan would exacerbate the inequitable cost burden borne by privately insured individuals as a result of the inadequate reimbursement rates that Medicare and Medicaid pay to...

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Prospective Clinical Advantages of Trabecular Metal(TM) Technology Highlighted in Comparative Study

...long term success of the primary surgery and may increase the difficulty and expense of revision reconstruction. Acetabular stress-shielding can also exacerbate patients' osteolytic response to bearing surface particles, potentially further reducing the bony support for the implant. The authors of the study s...

Durezol(TM) in the Treatment of Uveitis and Ganciclovir in the Treatment of Herpetic Keratitis: Studies of Treatments for Leading Causes of Blindness to Be Presented

...cterial infections of the eye or ocular structures. Prolonged use of corticosteroids may increase the hazard of secondary ocular bacterial infections, exacerbate the severity of ocular viral infections, and increase the development of fungal infections of the cornea. It is important to monitor intraocular press...

Sirion Therapeutics Announces Positive Pivotal Uveitis Data for Durezol(TM)

...cterial infections of the eye or ocular structures. Prolonged use of corticosteroids may increase the hazard of secondary ocular bacterial infections, exacerbate the severity of ocular viral infections, and increase the development of fungal infections of the cornea. It is important to monitor intraocular press...

Video: Sirion Therapeutics Launches Durezol for Postoperative Ocular Inflammation and Pain

... or mycobacterial infections of the eye or ocular structures. Prolonged use of corticosteroids may increase the hazard of secondary ocular infections, exacerbate the severity of ocular viral infections, and increase the development of fungal infections of the cornea. It is important to monitor intraocular press...

Radius Selects First Preclinical Candidate From SARM Discovery Program for the Treatment of Muscle Loss and Other Musculoskeletal Conditions

...ge of 65 suffer from sarcopenia, and there are currently no FDA-approved treatment options available. This deterioration of skeletal strength can also exacerbate other age-related conditions such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Additional chronic diseases that involve loss of muscle strength with a signific...

Reduced Lung Capacity Accelerates With Diabetes

...onary function could add to diabetic morbidity and mortality, and raised concerns about the potential use of inhaled insulin, since it may "trigger or exacerbate pulmonary dysfunction." Recently, makers of inhaled insulin have pulled their products from the market because of poor sales or halted product inv...

Recent Studies Suggest Popular 'Diet Pill' Relacore Reduces Acne Breakouts

... News Today, "Acne significantly affects physical and psychosocial well-being, so it is important to understand the interplay between the factors that exacerbate acne. Our study suggests a significant association between stress and severity of acne." This research also confirmed the results of a landmark 2003...

New England Journal of Medicine Study Shows ERBITUX(R) Improves Survival in Advanced Colorectal Cancer

...rly half, the event continued beyond 28 days. Monitor patients receiving ERBITUX for dermatologic toxicities and infectious sequelae. Sun exposure may exacerbate these effects In women of childbearing potential, appropriate contraceptive measures must be used during treatment with ERBITUX and for 6 months foll...

Despite Serious Health Risks, One in Three Adults with Heart Disease Does Not Believe They Need a Flu Shot This Year

... The flu can worsen underlying medical conditions such as heart disease, as well as lead to co-infections with other viruses and bacteria. The flu can exacerbate heart disease conditions and can lead to conditions like viral or bacterial pneumonia that cause complications of heart disease. Recent studies have f...

Survival Data in FDA Approval for ERBITUX(R) (Cetuximab) Supports use as a Single Agent in Patients with Advanced Colorectal Cancer

...rly half, the event continued beyond 28 days. Monitor patients receiving ERBITUX for dermatologic toxicities and infectious sequelae. Sun exposure may exacerbate these effects In women of childbearing potential, appropriate contraceptive measures must be used during treatment with ERBITUX and for 6 months foll...

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Substance Abuse

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Vitamin D may exacerbate autoimmune disease

Deficiency in vitamin D has been widely regarded as contributing to autoimmune disease, but a review appearing in Autoimmunity Reviews explains that low levels of vitamin D in patients with autoimmune disease may be a result rather than a cause of disease and that supplementing with vitamin D ma...

Symposium to discuss geoengineering to fight climate change at the ESA Annual Meeting

...by carbon dioxide from the increasingly carbon-rich atmosphere dissolving into seawater. In fact, Miller says, ocean fertilization schemes will likely exacerbate this problem. "Any large-scale fertilization could cause risks to ocean ecosystems as great as those of global warming itself," he says. Despite...

Scientists report first remote, underwater detection of harmful algae, toxins

..., and severity of their effects. HABs damage coastal ecosystem health and pose threats to humans as well as marine life. Climate change is expected to exacerbate this trend, since many critical processes that govern HABs dynamics, such as water temperature and ocean circulation, are influenced by climate. A ...

Cell's split personality is a major discovery into neurological diseases

...ort, nutrients and an optimal environment. However, this study indicates that glial cells also have a more sinister side that allows them to induce or exacerbate neuronal death in pathological conditions. "Neuronal cell death induced by glutamate is a key step in a large number of injury and disease setting...

Mighty diatoms: Global climate feedback from microscopic algae

... smaller sized diatoms dominate, then carbon sequestration becomes less efficient and there may be more CO 2 remaining in the atmosphere, which would exacerbate global warming." ...

Researchers explore new driver of transplant rejection: Platelets

...s." In fact, mounting evidence from Morrell and others shows that platelets are part of a sustained and general immune response that can trigger or exacerbate organ rejection. Not only do they rush to the scene of a wound and adhere to local blood vessels, preventing fatal bleeding, they also dump out granul...

Landscape-scale treatment promising for slowing beetle spread

...in Canada, where more than 22 million acres are affected, according to the British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range. Outbreaks of this magnitude exacerbate global warming by converting forests from carbon sinks to carbon sources. Scientists have known for more than a decade that one of the safest stra...

Overuse of narcotics and barbiturates may make migraine worse

...with migraine," said Dr. Lipton. "Primary care practitioners and patients should try to avoid the use of narcotic or barbiturate medications that may exacerbate migraine; if these drugs are necessary, patients should be advised of the risks of medication overuse and dose limits should be applied." ...

Acoustical Meeting, Nov. 10-14, 2008 in Miami, Florida

...not hear and locate in many shallow water conditions." In Florida's murky waters, where boaters and manatees cannot see each other, slow speed zones exacerbate the risks of collisions, by making these boats inaudible to manatees and increasing the transect times through manatee habitats. Gerstein and his l...

BioScience tip sheet, November 2008

...ces are rarely traded in markets, but are declining because of over-consumption of common-pool resources. Current economic incentives and property law exacerbate the trend. Reform in these areas and the development of ecosystem service districts could remedy this social trap. Seeing the Wood for the Trees: ...

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CEL-SCI Developing Immune-Based Treatment Against Swine and Other H1N1 Flu Viruses Using Proprietary L.E.A.P.S. Technology

...ed a cytokine storm. While normally many cytokines play a key role in preventing and treating swine flu, in some cases excessive cytokine amounts may exacerbate the disease as it appears that, unlike the normal flu which affects the very young and very old most severely, swine flu may be more like the avian fl...

CEL-SCI's L.E.A.P.S. Technology Shows Potential to Treat Swine Influenza in Preclinical Studies

... around that problem. While normally cytokines may play a key role in preventing and treating swine flu, in some cases excessive cytokine amounts may exacerbate disease as it appears that, unlike the normal flu which affects the very young and very old most severely, swine flu may be more like the avian flu wh...

Sirion Therapeutics Supplemental New Drug Application for Durezol(TM) to Treat Uveitis is Accepted for Review by the FDA

...cterial infections of the eye or ocular structures. Prolonged use of corticosteroids may increase the hazard of secondary ocular bacterial infections, exacerbate the severity of ocular viral infections, and increase the development of fungal infections of the cornea. It is important to monitor intraocular press...

Cardiovascular Side Effects of Pioglitazone and Rosiglitazone Linked to Vascular and Energy Pathways by Genomas Clinical Study

...n observed to have side effects of weight gain and abdominal obesity, which exacerbate the diabetic condition itself, and to cause edema and exacerbate congestive heart failure in certain patients. Individuals vary in their ris...

FDA Approves AstraZeneca's SEROQUEL XR(R) for the Treatment of Bipolar Depression and Bipolar Mania

...than in hypomania.(11) Bipolar disorder is often misdiagnosed as major depressive disorder. This misdiagnosis can lead to unfocused treatment that may exacerbate the disease. In fact, many patients face up to ten years before a correct diagnosis is made.(12) Up to 50 percent of patients with bipolar disorder at...

Lilly to Acquire ImClone Systems in $6.5 Billion Transaction

... event continued beyond 28 days - Monitor patients receiving ERBITUX for dermatologic toxicities and infectious sequelae - Sun exposure may exacerbate these effects ERBITUX plus Radiation Therapy and Cisplatin -- The safety of ERBITUX in combination with radiation therapy and cisplatin has not be...

Video: ASMANEX(R) TWISTHALER(R) 110 MCG (Mometasone Furoate Inhalation Powder) is Now Available Nationwide for the Maintenance Treatment of Asthma in Children Ages 4 to 11

...ing asthma with a maintenance inhaler, it is also important for parents to work closely with their child's doctor to identify asthma triggers that can exacerbate a child's asthma symptoms during school.(5) For example, classrooms may contain indoor allergens like dust mites and molds, as well as irritants inclu...

GlaxoSmithKline Responds to JAMA Article on the ICES Thiazolidinediones and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Older Patients with Diabetes

...e results of this study do not reproduce what is already known about the risk of CHF in TZD users. TZDs can cause fluid retention which can lead to or exacerbate heart failure. TZDs also have a similar increased risk of CHF. Yet, in this analysis, pioglitazone is not associated with an increased risk of CHF (Ad...

Medical simulations identify potential problems before they can pose a real threat

... according to Chapman, is that communication technology alone cannot solve problems. Indeed, new technology and the transition associated with it can exacerbate problems if the fundamental issues of enterprise structure are not also addressed. The key is to address the overall manner in which communication be...

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Colchicine

... amyloidosis , and scleroderma . Side-effects include gastro-intestinal upset and neutropenia . Starting the drug early during an attack of gout can exacerbate the symptoms. High doses can also damage bone marrow and lead to anemia . It's not used in the treatment of cancer , as the dose required would le...

Dialysis

... care staff believes represents what the patient should weigh without fluid built up because of kidney failure. Removing this much fluid can cause or exacerbate low blood pressure. Monitoring is intended to detect this before it becomes too severe. Low blood pressure can cause cramping, nausea, shakes, dizzi...

Marine biology

...e normal. Some reefs are recovering, but scientists say that 58% of the world's coral reefs are now endangered and predict that global warming could exacerbate this trend. Deep sea and trenches The ocean is deep, very deep in some places. The deepest recorded measure to date is the Mariana Trench , ne...