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If Cheaper is Better to Treat Hypertension Then Why Aren't More Patients Prescribed Low Cost Diuretics

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- An independent study comparing a low cost diuretic to ACE inhibitors, calcium blockers and alpha blockers for the treatment of high blood pressure and hypertension was sponsored by the National Heart, Lung ...





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Doctors embrace social networking

Technology / Hi Tech

created 6 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the waiting room, the patient's family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing.


Popular anti-platelet therapy reduces risk of cardiovascular events in men and women

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study, published in the November 17, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, adds to a growing body of research seeking to evaluate and understand possible sex differences associated with a ...


Computerized support keeps prominence of name brand drugs at bay

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs. A study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine found that when clinicians received comput ...


New TMS clinic offers noninvasive treatment for major depression

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment. TMS therapy is the first FDA-approved, ...


Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug that raises levels of 'good' cholesterol, when taken in addition to standard statin therapy to lower 'bad' cholesterol, can reduce the furring up of arteries in patients with established ...


Statins may worsen symptoms in some cardiac patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Although statins are widely used to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular disorders, new research shows that the class of drugs may actually have negative effects on some cardiac patients. A new study presented ...


Common Pain Relievers May Dilute Power of Flu Shots

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- With flu vaccination season in full swing, research from the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that use of many common pain killers - Advil, Tylenol, aspirin - at the time of injection may blunt ...


Researchers design new strategy to find drugs to treat neglected infection

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, ...


Commentary warns of unexpected consequences of proton pump inhibitor use in reflux disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Despite being highly effective and beneficial for many patients, unexpected consequences are emerging in patients who are prescribed proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for reflux diseases. Physicians are warned to monitor these ...


Iranian scholars share Avicenna's medieval medical wisdom

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

For pulmonary ailments, certain mediaeval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today. One of the fathers of medicine, the great ...



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