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New Way To Predict Drug Side Effects

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Predicting the side-effects of a drug is not simple task. The human body has more than 1,500 molecules that are known to be involved in various diseases, and often a drug designed to hit one of these targets will also hit ...


ACC/AHA revised guidelines for the perioperative use of beta blockers to minimize cardiac risk

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cardiac complications around the time of noncardiac surgery are relatively common and can be serious. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) today release a Focused Update to the ...


Beta-blockers and stroke -- new insights into their use for older people

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created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A University of Leicester-led study may have uncovered the reason why Beta-blockers are less effective at preventing stroke in older people with high blood pressure, when compared to other drugs for high blood pressure.


Doctor-pharmacist partnership reduces hospitalization for heart failure

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created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thinking "outside the medicine cabinet" is paying off in Australia, where a doctor-pharmacist partnership is reducing hospitalizations for heart failure — one of the most expensive conditions to treat — researchers report ...


Heart disease patients with previous blockages more likely to die

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created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Heart disease patients with previous atherosclerosis (fat deposits in the walls of the arteries) are more likely to die in the hospital and less likely to be treated with recommended therapies, researchers report in Circulation: Jo ...


Chronic kidney disease profoundly impacts quality of life

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created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can significantly lessen patients' quality of life, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Certain types of pati ...


Migraine prevention by targeting glutamate receptors?

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When migraine strikes, because of severe pain, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound, sufferers are effectively disabled for up to 72 hours. Since they are forced to stop what they are doing until ...


New asthma research opposes current drug treatment

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created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just when the Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering the use of stimulants to treat asthma, a new research study offers further evidence to support a University of Houston professor's theory that an opposite approach ...


Angina: New drug gets right to the heart of the problem

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created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A compound designed to prevent chest pains in heart patients has shown promising results in animal studies, say scientists. In the second issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology to be published by Wiley-Blackwell, resear ...


Two beta blockers found to also protect heart tissue

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created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly discovered chemical pathway that helps protect heart tissue can be stimulated by two of 20 common beta-blockers, drugs that are prescribed to millions of patients who have experienced heart failure.




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