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Managing Angina Without Surgery
Blockages in the heart?s arteries commonly cause chest pains called angina. Cardiologists possess ever-improving invasive tools for restoring blood flow, including angioplasty (blowing up balloons to expand the artery at sites of plaque), stenting (insertion of cylindrical props of metal mesh), and ...
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Sleeping Too Much Or Too Little May Boost Stroke Risk in Women
Older women who regularly sleep too little or too much are up to 70 percent more likely to have a stroke, a study found. Postmenopausal women who regularly slept nine hours or more were 70 percent more likely to have a stroke, compared with women who slept seven hours a night, according to a study o ...
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Drug Combo Improves Remission of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Patients with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis benefited from combining the drugs methotrexate and Enbrel (etanercept), new research found. The combination improved both remission and radiographic non-progression rates within one year compared with the standard treatment of methotrexate alone ...
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Amgen's Enbrel Drug Works in Early-Stage Arthritis, Study Finds
Amgen Inc.s Enbrel anti- inflammatory drug reduces the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis when given with a standard therapy early in the disease, a study found. Treatment with Enbrel and the generic drug methotrexate led to disease remission in about 50 percent of patients with moderate-to-severe art ...
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Physical Fitness Linked to Brain Health, Alzheimer's Study Says
People with Alzheimers who exercise regularly had less brain damage, a finding researchers said may one day lead to development of a treatment to slow the disease. Physically fit patients with mild cognitive impairment had less brain shrinkage than those who werent so well conditioned, according to ...
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Diet and exercise can delay diabetes for years
Drinking less alcohol, eating more vegetables and exercising can prevent or delay the onset of diabetes, researchers said on Friday in a study showing that lifestyle changes can make a big difference.Diet and exercise reduced the incidence of diabetes by about 43 percent over 20 years among 577 high ...
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Vitamin D may lower breast cancer risk
Breast cancer patients with lower levels of vitamin D were far more likely to die and far more likely to have their cancer spread than women with normal levels, Canadian researchers reported on Thursday.Women deficient in the "sunshine vitamin" when they were diagnosed with breast cancer w ...
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Too much alcohol damages heart and arteries
Heavy drinking causes high blood pressure, stiff arteries and rigid heart muscles in men and enlarged hearts in women, boosting their risk of having heart attacks and strokes, researchers said on Wednesday.They defined heavy drinking as more than 21 drinks a week for men and more than 14 per week fo ...
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Erectile dysfunction predicts heart problems: study
Problems with maintaining an erection may foretell heart trouble ahead for men with type 2 diabetes, two new studies show.A number of past studies have found a connection between erectile dysfunction (ED) and heart disease. But the new findings, published in the Journal of the American College of Ca ...
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Multivitamins Linked With Breast Density
Breast density, which is increasingly used as a marker of breast cancer risk, is associated with the use of multivitamins, a new study shows.The report, published this month in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, raises questions about advice routinely given to women to take a multivitamin. ...
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Reducing Your Risk for Breast Cancer
GO for regular checkups, do breast self-exams and get your mammograms on time, and chances are you?ll detect breast cancer early on, when it is most treatable. But what about prevention? Short of radical surgery, are there steps you can take to reduce the risk?Turns out there are.True, immutable fac ...
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Drug Approved for Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation
On April 29, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Amitiza (lubiprostone) for the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation (IBS-C) in adult women aged 18 and over. With this approval, Amitiza becomes the only FDA-approved medical treatment for IBS-C available in the Un ...
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Americans still unclear about stroke warning signs
Fewer than half of Americans can recognize the top five warning signs of stroke, information that could help save thousands of people from death and disability, the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention said on Thursday.Their report uncovered significant disparities in awareness, with ...
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Half of diabetics in U.S. have arthritis, CDC says
People with diabetes are twice as likely to have arthritis, putting them in a double bind as the pain in their joints keeps them from getting the exercise they need to keep both diseases at bay, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.They found that more than half of U. ...
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Alzheimer's Disease Risk Factors May Be Gender-Specific
Depression in women and stroke in men are critical factors in the development of Alzheimers disease, French researchers report. They analyzed data from almost 7,000 people over the age of 65 in three French cities. None of them had dementia, but about 40 percent had mild cognitive impairment at the ...
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Aspirin seen cutting risk of type of breast cancer
A daily aspirin may give women modest protection against the most common type of breast cancer, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday.The finding reinforced earlier research indicating regular use of aspirin might reduce the risk of so-called estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, which m ...
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FDA Approves Relistor for Opioid-Induced Constipation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Relistor (methylnaltrexone bromide) to help restore bowel function in patients with late-stage, advanced illness who are receiving opioids on a continuous basis to help alleviate their pain.Opioids are often prescribed on a continuous basis for pa ...
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Viruses May Increase Lung Cancer Risk
Although smoking is the No. 1 cause of lung cancer, viruses may also contribute to the development of this fatal disease, new research suggests.Dr. Arash Rezazadeh and colleagues from the University of Louisville, Kentucky presented their findings at the 1st European Lung Cancer Conference, jointly ...
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New Test to Detect Sleep Apnea before Surgery
Anesthesiology researchers from University of Toronto have come to the aid of people suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), as they are at high risk for respiratory complications during and after surgery. Taking the new test, these patients will be able to know for sure if they have sleep apn ...
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Cimzia Sanctioned to Treat Crohn's Disease
Cimzia (certolizumab pegol) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat adults with moderate-to-severe Crohns disease who havent responded to conventional therapies. Crohns, an inflammatory bowel disease, has no known cause or cure. Affecting more than 1 million people worldw ...
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