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Preventing a second stroke is focus of study at Rush University Medical Center

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created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rush University Medical Center is participating in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study to determine the best course of treatment to reduce the risk of stroke patients suffering another stroke. The study will determine ...





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Abbott expanding study of its popular Xience stent

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created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Abbott Laboratories Inc. is expanding a study of its top-selling heart stent by more than 2,000 patients, who may also be put in a second, landmark stent study meant to find the best way to prevent potentially fatal ...


FDA says heartburn drugs can interfere with Plavix (AP)

FDA says heartburn drugs can interfere with Plavix

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack ...


Team-based care involving a pharmacist improves blood pressure control

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patients whose hypertension is managed by a physician-pharmacist team have lower blood pressure levels and are more likely to reach goals for blood pressure control than those treated without this collaborative approach, ...


FDA OKs heart valve made from human tissue

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created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first replacement heart valve made from donated human tissue in which the cells have been removed.


Newer Anti-Clotting Medication Found to Be More Effective

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created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A large head-to-head study of two anti-clotting medications for heart patients has found that the investigational compound ticagrelor (Brilinta) was more effective at reducing cardiovascular death than the ...


Kidney disease affects response to blood thinner

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

Patients with reduced kidney function require lower doses of the anticoagulant drug warfarin, and may need closer monitoring to avoid serious bleeding complications, suggests a study in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of ...


Migraine raises risk of most common form of stroke

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pooling results from 21 studies, involving 622,381 men and women, researchers at Johns Hopkins have affirmed that migraine headaches are associated with more than twofold higher chances of the most common kind of stroke: ...


More pills, less quality of life for kidney patients

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

The more pills a dialysis patients takes, the worse their health-related quality of life, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findin ...


The risk of developing deep vein thrombosis during a flight is often overestimated

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The risk of developing deep vein thrombosis during a long flight is often overestimated. According to the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), this condition is very unlikely in healthy travellers.


Doctors' tests often miss high blood pressure in kids with kidney disease

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who show normal blood pressure readings at the doctor's office have high blood pressure when tested at home, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of ...



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