Calcium-blocker drug slows artery clogging better than beta blocker
...either lacidipine or atenolol once a day. After a month of treatment, if diastolic pressure didn't drop by at least 5 mm Hg to less than 95 mm Hg both drugs were increased and when necessary, a diuretic was added. Patients underwent ultrasound scanning of carotid arteries to measure the thickness of the ...$2 per dose vs. $1500 per dose: One doctor develops new therapy for macular degeneration
...dy examining injections of anecortave acetate at 6 month intervals showed that a 15mg dose, but not a 3 or 30 mg dose was associated with decreased loss of visual acuity in treated patients as opposed to controls. Treated patients still lost acuity, just less than untreated controls. Of treated patients 18...Epilepsy linked to social deprivation
... in London and south east England over an 18 or 24 month period. All patients were categorised using a standard measure of deprivation, known as a Carstairs score. After adjusting for age and sex, they found that the incidence of epilepsy in the most deprived fifth of the study population was 2.3 times tha...Comparison of HRTs finds progesteron
...a continuous regimen, or more than one episode per month with cyclical treatment. Langer and the study's first author, Etta A. Lindenfeld, M.D., MPH, UCSD assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, noted that the mean number of excess bleeding episodes at each six-month clinic visit varied widely by trea...Hibernating squirrels provide clues for stroke, Parkinson's
...trics Psychoneuropharmacology Award presented this month at the college's annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain. The original insight about squirrels and delta opioid peptide came from work by Dr. Tsung-Ping Su at the National Institutes of Health. In the 1980s, Dr. Su was studying hibernation and found incr...Depression after bypass surgery linked to later problems
Patients who are depressed one month after undergoing bypass surgery are more likely to... findings suggest specifically that depression one month after coronary bypass surgery is an important risk factor for continued cardiac problems, especially...Scripps Research Institute group designs DNA vaccine that inhibits growth of cancerous tumors
...ith the vaccine in an article to be published next month in the journal Nature Medicine. Though not yet tested in humans, their vaccine has the potential to treat many types of cancer, and it may provide a new strategy for the rational design of cancer therapies. Two Approaches to Treating Cancer Cancer...European seal plague may threaten population survival
...ing that the 2002 PDV outbreak started more than a month later than the 1988 event, the authors predict that mortality rates will be more than 50 percent in the Dutch Wadden Sea and the southern Baltic region, with lower mortality rates in the German and Danish parts of the Wadden Sea, and substantially lo...EliTE-Symphony study recruitment begins
...ver to be conducted. Patient enrollment began this month and the study aims to recruit 1300 kidney transplant patients in total, from approximately 100 sites in 17 countries worldwide. The objective of the EliTE-Symphony study will be to demonstrate that a combination of lower toxicity immunosuppressants C...Nation's two largest medical specialty groups issue migraine treatment guidelines
...herapy are patients who have two or more attacks a month producing disability lasting three or more days per month and/or who have tried many NSAIDs, triptans and other medications unsuccessfully. Preventive therapy...Inaccurate arsenic test kits jeopardize water safety in Bangladesh and India
...ly labeled wells. The findings were published this month on the Web site of Environmental Science & Technology , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The print version of the paper is scheduled for the Dec. 15 edition of the journal. Researchers...Terrorist attacks increased dangerous irregular heartbeats
...ore than doubled among New York heart patients the month after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, re...ays before and after the terrorist attack. In the month before the attack, 3.5 percent (seven patients) had heart rhythm disturbances that required electric...Lesson improves rural students' knowledge of farm safety
...igrant farm labor. The findings are published this month in the quarterly Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health. Agriculture can be especially dangerous for children. A previous study by Dr. Liller found that the leading causes of fatal injuries for children on Florida farms were machinery related, ...Making heart surgery more brain-friendly
... to the patient. The findings were presented last month at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions conference in Chicago, Ill. The neurological problems associated with bypass surgery have been widely reported. As much as 6 percent to 10 percent of bypass patients will experience mem...Results of first chronic treatment study with oral EXANTA(TM) (ximelagatran)
...NTA treatment for 18 months following standard six month anticoagulation treatment is highly effective in p...therapy after an initial VTE event prior to the 18 month treatment period with EXANTA. Notably, these long term results demonstrate that the clinical potenti...Study: old age wont boost health-care costs as much as some have predicted
...ed incurred about $590 in health expenses. In the month before death, the cost for people aged 65 to 74 averaged about $7,580, while the cost for those 85 and older was $5,254, the analyses showed. "Our results offers good news in terms of future expenditures being less burdensome than previously though...Soaking in the genius of Mother Nature
...er more than two years of work, Handy's group last month successfully synthesized the molecular skeleton of the lamellarins, an accomplishment that will now allow them to begin looking for ways to simplify it, while maintaining or amplifying its desired abilities. In this process, each new variation of a ...This is your heart on drugs: Study improves ER treatment for cocaine's heart effects
... chest-pain center had heart attacks in that first month -- and all four had kept using cocaine. With cocai...tion about the danger of using cocaine again. One month after the patients were discharged, the team attempted to contact them or their friends or relatives...Study provides new evidence that cranberry juice may help fight heart disease
...xt month, and three glasses a day during the third month of the study. Subjects were not monitored with respect to exercise, diet and alcohol consumption, the researcher says. While there were no changes in overall cholesterol levels, good cholesterol (high density lipoprotein, or HDL) appeared to signific...Drug reduces deaths and hospital stays in heart attack patients with heart failure
...rted on 25 milligrams of eplerenone, and after one month the doses were increased to a maximum of 50 mg; the mean dose was 43 mg. The mean age of patients at baseline was 64 years, and they were on average randomized to treatment or placebo 7.3 days after their heart attack. About a third had diabetes, 60 ...