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ForumMedical: Physicians Offer Practical Tips On Preventing Strokes And Their Lasting Effects
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Physicians Offer Practical Tips On Preventing Strokes And Their Lasting Effects. On Minggu, 17 Mei 2009. It takes less than a minute for a stroke to change a person's life forever, but taking the time to make a few simple lifestyle adjustments and finding out how to recognize an attack when. it happens can save thousands of lives. These few lifestyle changes can greatly reduce anyone's chances of having a stroke:. Eat a heart-healthy diet. Maintaining a healthy balance between your good cholesterol (...
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ForumMedical: Oktober 2008
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Long-term aspirin and death risk for women: new study. On Senin, 13 Oktober 2008. Women who took low to moderate daily doses of aspirin had a reduced death rate, especially from heart disease, according to decades-long research. The research, based on data from a major trial that has tracked almost 80,000 women since 1976, found women who reported using aspirin on a regular basis had a 25% lower risk of death from any cause than women who didn't take the drug. Therefore, Baron said, the new findings "can...
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ForumMedical: September 2008
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3rd Annual Cardiometabolic Health Congress, Boston. On Senin, 22 September 2008. The management of diabetes is evolving quickly, with new therapeutic agents and several landmark studies reporting this year," said John Buse, MD, PhD, CDE, chief of the Division of Endocrinology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. "Discussing these advances in the context of cardiovascular risk management is critical for establishing best practices in patient care.". The CMHC late-breaking...
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ForumMedical: New Therapy Improves Chances Of Living Disease-free With Difficult-to-treat Childhood Cancer
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New Therapy Improves Chances Of Living Disease-free With Difficult-to-treat Childhood Cancer. On Minggu, 17 Mei 2009. The therapy targets a specific glycan (a complex sugar chain found on the surface of cells) on neuroblastoma cells called GD2, which inhibit the immune system from killing cancer cells. The antibody - ch14.18 - binds to this glycan, enabling various types of immune cells to attack the cancer. Yu noted that the two-year mark is especially important because past trials have shown that those...
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ForumMedical: April 2009
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New Method For Detection Of Phosphoproteins Reveals Regulator Of Melanoma Invasion. On Kamis, 23 April 2009. Current strategies to identify phosphorylated proteins require purification techniques to enrich phosphorylated from non-phosphorylated proteins and metabolic labeling procedures to quantify changes in phosphorylation. Unfortunately, these methods are not readily applied to all sample types. Dr. Ahn and colleagues developed a method for analyzing phosphorylated proteins in human cell e...Using the...
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ForumMedical: Agustus 2008
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A study of the 2006 Chikungunya epidemic outbreak in Mauritius. On Minggu, 10 Agustus 2008. KEY WORDS: Chikungunya, Modeling, Herd Immunity, Epidemic Control. Pharmacokinetic Study of Frusemide in Healthy and Cirrhotic Indian Subjects. KEY WORDS: Pharmacokinetic, Frusemide, Liver cirrhosis. Association of Helicobacter pylori with gastric carcinoma. Email: smriti agnihotri@yahoo.co.uk. The news headlines shown above for Sexual Health / STDs. Are provided courtesy of Medical News Today.
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ForumMedical: Maret 2009
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New SIGN Guidelines On Stroke Upgrade Plavix (clopidogrel) Recommendation For Secondary Stroke Prevention. On Rabu, 11 Maret 2009. The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have issued new guidelines for the treatment of stroke, giving clopidogrel (Plavix) a Grade A recommendation as a monotherapy alternative to the combination of aspirin and dipyridamole in the secondary prevention of vascular events.(1). The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published their most ...
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ForumMedical: Juli 2008
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GE Healthcare Announces Phase I Results With Amyloid Imaging Agent GE-067. On Kamis, 31 Juli 2008. Don Black, Head of R&D, Medical Diagnostics at GE Healthcare said: "We were excited to see the results from this Phase I study with GE-067 and as a result have initiated a larger study with manufacturing and scanning centres across Europe. We also plan to extend our studies to the United States of America.". 2 Post-mortem correlates of in vivo PIB-PET amyloid imaging in a typical case of Alzheimer's disease...
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ForumMedical: UVA Study Shows Early Success In Treating Deadly Brain Tumors
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UVA Study Shows Early Success In Treating Deadly Brain Tumors. On Minggu, 17 Mei 2009. New research from the University of Virginia Health System shows that, when combined, two emerging medical technologies hold significant promise for treating the most deadly and. devastating form of brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Many drugs that kill GBM cells in vitro prove ineffective in living organisms because they are not able to penetrate the blood brain barrier," noted Sheehan. "These new techno...
