Mixing Ginseng and Blood Thinners Might Be Dangerous
New research shows mixing warfarin with ginseng, one of the best-selling herbal supplements, could have significant consequences. Researches say // anyone who takes both ginseng and warfarin, also known as Coumadin, should tell his or her doctor. They also urge doctors prescribing the anti-clotting drug to ask their patients if they regularly take ginseng. Specialists say warfarin has a...New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years
Warfarin, originally developed as a rat poison, was first used as a blood thinner in the 1950s. It is still the only oral blood thinner available to protect against clots that can block blood vessels. It is widely prescribed after //strokes, heart attacks and orthopedic surgery and is also given to prevent recurring clots in the legs or lungs.But warfarin, which takes time to kick in, interacts...Thinner Women Are More Healthy
Women may be able to protect themselves from heart diseases by maintaining a small waistline. This has been revealed by a research conducted by the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Women with waistlines of 35 inches or more are at greater risk of heart disease //than thinner women, according to the study. Of more than 6,000 women without known heart disease whose waistlines were measu...Blood Thinners Linked To Osteoporotic Fractures
A new study conducted by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis says that elderly individuals who take the blood thinner// warfarin are at increased risk of suffering osteoporosis-linked bone fractures. "We did a retrospective study of Medicare records for about 15,000 patients hospitalized with atrial fibrillation, and we identified fractures related t...Ordinary Heparin as Effective as Expensive Blood Thinner
Top selling expensive blood thinners are only as effective as injections of the blood thinner heparin to treat blood clots, according to researchers on Tuesday.// Deep vein thrombosis that appears most often as blood clots in the legs, is treated with injections of low-molecular weight heparin like Sanofi-Aventis’ blockbuster Lovenox and Pfizer’s Fragmin. These are often seen as more c...Cortex Area Thinner in Youth with Alzheimers-Related Gene
BETHESDA, Md., April 23, 2007--A part of the brain firstaffected by Alzheimers disease (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/">http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/ )is thinner in youth with a risk gene for the disorder, a brainimaging study by researchers at the National Institute of MentalHealth (NIMH), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), hasfound. A t...