Thursday, February 28th, 2008
David Jones, MP for Clwyd West and Shadow Minister for Wales, challenged Welsh Secretary, Paul Murphy, over difficulties experienced by Welsh patients suffering from muscle disease in obtaining treatment across in hospitals in England. In response, the Secretary of State accepted the "general thrust" of the criticism.
Speaking in the Commons ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Up to 20 percent of patients taking aspirin to lower the risk of suffering a second cerebrovascular event do not have an antiplatelet response from aspirin, the effect thought to produce the protective effect, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.
"Millions of people use low-dose aspirin either for prevention ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
According to an article published in the April edition of The Lancet Neurology, donepezil may improve the executive function of patients who suffer from the CADASIL form of vascular dementia. However, researcher Martin Dichgans of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany and colleagues found that donepezil did not improve patients' cognitive ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
A new study by researchers in the US found that people with advanced dementia are frequently given antibiotics toward the end of life, and has thrown into question whether this practice should be curtailed in view of the increased risk of developing drug resistant superbugs.
The study is the work of ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Patients who prefer to be highly involved in their treatment don't necessarily have better luck managing chronic health conditions, a new study suggests.
A research team based at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Iowa City Health Care System and the University of Iowa surveyed 189 veterans with high blood pressure to determine ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Oxidative stress describes the state level of oxidative damage in a cell, tissue or organ, caused by reactive oxygen species. Alcohol induces oxidative stress in the liver resulting in an imbalance between oxidants and anti-oxidants. Increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and glutathione (GSH) depletion, lead to abnormal breakdown of ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
About 20% CRC patients have a genetic component and HNPCC is the most common autosomal dominant hereditary syndrome. Some Chinese HNPCC pedigrees were recently reported in the World Journal of Gastroenterology because of their great significance for hereditary CRC. This article will undoubtedly bring comfort to many families.
The article describes ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
According to an article published in The Lacnet Neurology, phase III clinical trials of alteplase should now begin. Alteplase is the only licensed therapy for acute ischaemic stroke and is found to have positive effects for some patients, even if administered after the usual 3-hour treatment window.
Acute ischaemic stroke is ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Proposals to address the "health crisis that we all share -- getting good, timely medical service and being able to afford it" -- require physicians and politicians to answer three "critical" questions: "Will you get past your partisanship to talk to one another, will you feel my pain and are ...
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