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Beta-blockers and stroke -- new insights into their use for older people
A University of Leicester-led study may have uncovered the reason why Beta-blockers are less effective at preventing stroke in older people with high blood pressure, when compared to other drugs for h...
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Read moreOlder drivers unaware of risks from medications and driving
The findings, released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, indicate that 95 percent of those age 55 and older have one or more medical conditions, 78 percent take one or more medications, ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreExercise improves quality of life for heart failure patients
The findings, reported in the April 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, go a long way toward addressing concerns about the value of exercise for the nation's five million ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreUIC Center Funds 7 Projects with Potential for Human Therapies
The center's pilot grant program looks for UIC projects that involve human subjects or facilitate human subject investigations and have clear, near-term implications for therapeutics or preventio...
Science Education | Read moreStress may hasten the growth of melanoma tumors
But the same new research that infers this also suggests that the use of commonly prescribed blood pressure medicines might slow the development of those tumors and therefore improve these patients’ q...
Health and Medicine | Read moreThe drug treatment of heart failure is influenced by the gender of the patient and of the physician
In particular, the study found * that female patients were less frequently treated with guideline-recommended medications (such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin r...
Health and Medicine | Read moreMoney motivates doctors to reduce ethnic differences in heart disease treatments
Financial incentives for doctors can improve the management of coronary heart disease (CHD) and reduce ethnic differences in quality of and access to care, according to Dr. Christopher Millett, Consul...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew beta-blocker to offer hope to heart and lung sufferers
In the UK, 2.6 million people suffer from heart disease and most are able to have their symptoms effectively managed with the prescription of beta-blocker drugs which stop adrenaline from making the h...
Life Sciences | Read moreStudy finds link between amphetamine abuse and heart attacks in young adults
In the study, available online in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, researchers examined data from more than 3 million people between 18 and 44 years old hospitalized from 2000 through 2003 in ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreEuropean study reveals “worrying” variations between countries and doctors in the treatment of heart failure
European study reveals “worrying” variations between countries and doctors in the treatment of heart failure patients. A second study, a meta-analysis of more than 30,000 patients, shows statins signi...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreGenes and drugs team up to lower blood pressure
Sharon Kardia from the University of Michigan together with a US team drawn from the University of Texas, Houston and the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, studied siblings with hypertension participating in a ...
Life Sciences | Read moreOnset Of Diabetes Higher In Patients Who Have Had Heart Attacks
Dr Dariush Mozaffarian, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA, Dr Roberto Marchioli, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Italy and colleagues studied 8291 Italian patients who...
Health and Medicine | Read moreHypertension: uncontrolled and taking over the world
The Editorial, which ties in with a Seminar on hypertension, says: “Despite very effective and cost-effective treatments, target blood pressure levels are very rarely reached, even in countries where ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreHerbal extract extends life for heart failure patients
An herbal medicinal substance, Crataegus Extract WS®1442, safely extends the lives of congestive heart failure patients already receiving pharmacological treatment for the disease, according to a stud...
Health and Medicine | Read moreMERLIN TIMI-36 study provides new safety and efficacy data for unique anti-anginal therapy
The most recently approved new pharmaceutical approach to treat chronic angina is a novel drug called ranolazine, which was approved in 2006 for use as second line therapy in patients who continue to ...
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