Heart-failure patients benefit from pharmacist care
...or received their pills in a bottle marked with an ace of hearts sticker. A corresponding information sheet, designed to be easy to read and understand, was also marked with the ace-of-hearts....Cause of gender differences in blood pressure, kidney damage under study
...tructive action: angiotensin receptor blockers and ace inhibitors. Interestingly, clinical studies already have shown these drugs don't work as well in women. "A lot of women are on these drugs too and I'm not sure it's doing them a lot of good," she says. One of her goals is to find out. When she look...Northwestern chemists develop new method for synthesizing anti-cancer flavonoids
..., green tea and citrus fruits. Mother Nature is an ace at making them, producing different ones by the thousands, but no chemist has figured out a good way to synthesize a special class of these chemicals in the laboratory. Until now. Karl Scheidt, assistant professor of chemistry in the Weinberg Colle...... total, 95 percent of these patients with SHF used ace inhibitors, 96 percent used beta-blockers, and 65 percent obtained their medications via the MAP. Researchers conclude, that as a result of Medicare Part D payments and copayments, a considerable amount of patients with SHF may lose access to medicat...