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Medication improves health of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

In one of the few studies of the long-term effects of medication in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) disease, a team of researchers found the health and exercise capacity of PAH patients improved after ...


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 ...


Drug industry, nonprofits join forces to fight world's neglected diseases

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug companies and nonprofit organizations are joining forces to develop new drugs and vaccines to target so-called "neglected" diseases that claim millions of lives in the developing world each year. Those hard-to-treat ...


Drug for erectile dysfunction improves heart function in young heart-disease patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Heart function significantly improved in children and young adults with single-ventricle congenital heart disease who have had the Fontan operation following treatment with sildenafil, a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction ...


When seconds count: Interventional radiology treatment for pulmonary embolism saves lives

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis -- an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted image-guided drug delivery with specially designed catheters to dissolve dangerous blood clots in the ...


Treating alcohol-use disorders and tuberculosis together

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The integration of alcohol screening, treatment and referral into primary care and other medical settings is not routinely done. Nor are there any studies evaluating the effectiveness of integrating care for alcohol use ...


Cellular Source of Most Common Type of Abnormal Heart Beat Found

Cellular Source of Most Common Type of Abnormal Heart Beat Found

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While studying how the heart is formed, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine serendipitously found a novel cellular source of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most ...


Study finds mixed results comparing 2 surgical strategies for infant heart defect

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart are more likely to survive to their first birthday when treated with a new shunt procedure — yet it may not be the safest surgery long term, according to research presented ...


Catheter-delivered Valve May Help People with Heart Defects Avoid Multiple Surgeries

Catheter-delivered Valve May Help People with Heart Defects Avoid Multiple Surgeries

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children born with certain heart defects have impaired blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs, requiring implanted devices (known as right-ventricular ...


Medical aid group raises alarm about AIDS funding

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

(AP) -- The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the ...



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