Simpler blood thinning medication effective for preventing blood clots and stroke
...in/warfarin. All-cause death was not significantly different between the 2 groups. A total of 9.6 percent of patients in the ximelagatran group had alanine aminotransferase levels (a measurement in the blood used as an indicator of possible liver damage or disease) increase to greater than 3 times the upper li...Abandoned bones suggest TB wiped out leprosy in battle of killer diseases
...ents from leprosy. However, our findings suggest a different explanation. "A weakening of the immune system following infection by leprosy, coupled with the stress, poverty and malnutrition associated with the social isolation and stigma of living with the disease, could have paved the way for opportunistic c...Patients with cancer have highly increased risk for blood clots
...ancer with an increased thrombotic risk, evaluated different tumor sites, the presence of distant metastases, and carrier status of gene mutations. The study (Multiple Environmental and Genetic Assessment [MEGA]) included 3,220 patients, aged 18 to 70 years, with a first deep venous thrombosis of the leg or p...Carrot component reduces cancer risk
... They divided them into three groups and fed them different diets. The team found that, after 18 weeks, rats ...hers, as there are many varieties in existence, of different shapes, colours and sizes. "We could also expand our research to include other vegetables. For cons...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...stroke by 65 percent. Unfortunately, patients have different sensitivities to warfarin, so it's difficult to adjust the dose, especially when initiating the drug. While they're on warfarin, patients' blood clotting has to be monitored often, and patients find that inconvenient. Warfarin also interacts with var...Sex hormone metabolite reduces stress, anxiety in female rats
... of Spelman College, compared how female rats with different levels of the sex hormones, estrogen and progesterone, reacted to loud noises after injections of CRF into the brain's lateral ventricles. CRF injections usually increase the "acoustic startle response" in this test used to gauge stress and anxiety,...New math model of heart cell has novel calcium pathway
... interactions. In heart cells, for instance, many different kinds of ion channels interact to generate the act...es that break the heart's synchrony in a number of different scenarios. The largest killer of Americans is heart disease, claiming one million Americans annuall...News briefs from the journal CHEST, February 2005
...d asthma and current wheeze may be associated with different risk factors than bronchial hyperresponsivenes (BHR), according to a new study. Researchers at the David Hide Asthma & Allergy Research Centre, St. Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK, compared multiple environmental and genetic factors affe...Why North America is not a rhythm nation
...ion of whether our seeming inability to dance to a different tune should be chalked up to nature or culture. Ne...flexible than adults when it comes to categorizing different types of rhythms, but can lose this ability if they are exposed to only one type of rhythm when they...New brochure helps explain treatment for gynecologic cancers
...an overwhelming experience and making sense of the different treatments available isn't an easy task," said Lou... brochure will help patients better understand the different types of treatments available and allow them to make the best, most informed decision about which tr...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...of their need to rethink their roles and switch to different kinds of activities and working practices. A main focus of this new way of working is the sharing with others of information perhaps previously restricted to those in a particular specialist field, with an expert understanding of its language and pra...New surgical procedure could save millions
... in the hospital. In the procedure this week, two different lasers were used: a carbon-dioxide (CO2) laser delivered by a newly developed hollow-core optical fiber, and a pulsed-dye laser delivered by standard solid optical fiber. Each is guided by a high-resolution video-endoscope, and the entire system is d...Infectious agent linked to mad cow disease found in organs other than the brain
...ree of prions: liver, pancreas and kidney, in five different mouse models of chronic inflammation. After the mice were infected with prions, the team detected prion accumulation in the inflamed organs. They concluded that the spectrum of organs containing prions might be considerably increased in situations of...Migraine-sparked vision loss may increase stroke risk in women; Migraine
...ve pill use, wine intake and smoking habit was not different between the groups. Analysis showed that those with migraine had 2.7 times the risk of stroke compared to the controls. When migraine was combined with high blood pressure, the stroke risk increased nine-fold, said Massimo Camerlingo, M.D., head o...Opportunity missed: TIA patients receive less aggressive attention than those with stroke
...A. Dandapani plans to extend this TIA research to different regions of the country and to different types of hospitals. A new unit at Holmes Regional Medical Center will meet the needs of TIA patient...Rheumatoid arthritis patients have double the risk of heart failure
...d women with rheumatoid arthritis. "This is quite different from what you'd find in the general population, where rates of heart failure are significantly higher among men than in women," says Dr. Nicola. "This suggests that whatever protects women from heart failure compared with men in the general populatio...Alcohol: Global burden on health similar to tobacco and high blood pressure
...ssure. Alcohol is causally related to more than 60 different medical conditions, including breast cancer and coronary heart disease. In most cases alcohol has a detrimental effect on health. The comprehensive review on alcohol and public health is particularly timely as from February 7, 2005 new legislation i...Early supported discharge services can reduce long term dependency for stroke patients
... of hospital stay seen in the ESD group could have different causes. Dr Meijer concludes: "To clinically interpret Langhorne and colleagues' latest results, admission to ESD services will be the optimum choice for patients who no longer need medical and nursing treatment that only a hospital can provide; have ......the problems of entrenched poverty or is something different needed? Can benefits be made more flexible so that lone parents and long-term unemployed can carry part of their benefits with them into their often short-term jobs as the new pilot programmes for disabled people in England are successfully exploring...