Meditation may reduce heart disease risk
... of twice-daily transcendental meditation steadily lowered the blood pressure of 156 black, inner-city adolescents and their pressures tended to stay lower. This new study, being presented during the 63rd Annual Scientific Conference of the American Psychosomatic Society held March 2-5 in Vancouver, focused ...Statement on the findings of the Women's Health Study
...omen. Low-dose aspirin (100 mg on alternate days) lowered the incidence of a first major cardiovascular event (nonfatal heart attack, non-fatal stroke, or death from cardiovascular causes) by 9 percent. This was not statistically significant. Stroke was 17 percent lower in the aspirin group, a statistical...News briefs from the journal CHEST, March 2005
...ment with metoprolol and propranolol significantly lowered provocative concentration of methacholine, causing a 20% decrease in lung function when compared to celiprolol or placebo, and increased AHR. Propranolol was the only b-blocker class studied that deteriorated lung function and reduced the bronchodila...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
...said. "However, the greatest risk occurred when we lowered the threshold to a score of eight or greater. In our study, patients scoring seven or higher had a 51 percent higher risk of dying. "This adverse association of depression and increased long-term mortality was independent of other factors, including ...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...searchers adjusted the device's pacing program and lowered MRI sequence energy levels to see if the scan affected the settings or caused any other kind of problem, such as heating of the electrical leads and surrounding tissue. All patients and devices were closely monitored during the scans, some of which ...Vaccine against childhood pneumonia shows promise
... types of pneumococcus bacteria in the vaccine was lowered by 77% and overall child mortality by 16%. The vaccine also had a good safety profile. Professor Cutts comments: "The trial results are highly promising, and provide us with a clearer picture of the pneumococcal disease burden in Africa. In the cont......timulation also had no effect, but low frequencies lowered increased blood pressure by as much as 40 to 50 percent. Overall, the researchers found that a 30-minute treatment reduced blood pressure rates in these test rats by 25 mmHg -- with the effect lasting almost two hours. "This type of electroacupunctur...