Blood pressure treatment could cut risk of strokes and heart attacks
...sults for those patients on the new treatment. The newer treatment strategy using the calcium channel blocker, amlodipine, and the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, perindopril was compared with the older treatment strategy based on the beta-blocker, atenolol and the thiazide diuretic, bendroflumeth...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
..." Stratta's research, however, found that by using newer methods to match the kidney with the recipient, th...ger group. Stratta said a key to success is using newer methods to match donated kidneys to recipients. In the past, kidneys were matched exclusively by blo...Brain imaging studies investigate pain reduction by hypnosis
...osis-induced pain reduction, and he hoped that the newer generation of fMRI machines would be capable of providing more answers. "Imaging studies like this one improve our understanding of what might be going on and help researchers ask even more specific questions aimed at identifying the underlying mecha...Depression may explain higher risk of heart attack associated with antidepressants
...eased risk of a first heart attack with either the newer or older class of antidepressants within the first...rescribed these drugs. And patients prescribed the newer class of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were over twice as likely to have a heart a...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...cision of "inflammation testing" by exploring even newer biomarkers or using combinations of tests is a ripe area for investigation. The latter will probably require pooled data from multiple studies to achieve precise risk estimates that can be translated into practice."...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
...er and safer for patients as we move forward, with newer radiation techniques allowing treatment to exclusively target tumors, while sparing healthy tissue." Giordano believes that this study will encourage patients in need of radiation therapy for breast cancer to proceed with treatment without fear. "A s...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...re less likely than whites to receive expensive or newer evidence-based treatments, according to a report i...e of recommended treatment options. These include newer recommended medications, heart catheterizations, and discharge recommendations for non-ST-elevation ...New studies show mixed results on epilepsy drugs and birth defects
...s of epilepsy drugs taken during pregnancy. With a newer drug, lamotrigine, the risk of birth defects was s... the study of lamotrigine, which is one of several newer epilepsy drugs introduced after 1990. Few studies have been done on these drugs' effects on human fe...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...cannot be crossed. 2. The addition of stents and newer adjunctive medications has improved PCI outcome. The decision to recommend PCI or CABG surgery will be guided by technical improvements in cardiology or surgery, local expertise and patients' preference. 3. Until proven otherwise, PCI should be used...