Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Atherosclerosis, Carotid Artery Disease, Cerebral Artery Disease/Stroke, Coronary Artery Disease, Peripheral Artery Disease and Hypertension
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Times Watch by tristero Frank Rich has a great column on the importance of Owens' win in NY-23 as well as the resurgent banksters. Speaking of banksters, Rich linked to a Business Week article which informs us that some of the worst of them are getting first dibs on the H1N1 SWINE FLU vaccine because, you know, they're too big to ail. Nick Kristof has been columning recently on food and health issues....
Curing Death by Curing Aging (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
A mathematical model constructed by researchers at Imperial College London predicts the risk of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, stroke) associated with low background levels of radiation. The model shows that the risk would vary almost in proportion with dose. Results, published Oct. 23 in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, are consistent with risk levels reported in previous...
Fitness Watch (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Still think they have any idea what they are talking about? "The use of aspirin to ward off heart attacks and strokes in those who do not have obvious cardiovascular disease should be abandoned, researchers say. The Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) study says aspirin can cause serious internal bleeding and does not prevent cardiovascular disease deaths." Well, they don't.
Food &Health Skeptic (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Risks of daily aspirin may outweigh the benefits Taking a low-dose aspirin every day can help prevent heart attacks in people who've already had one. But if you've never had a heart attack (or stroke), the risks of taking a daily low-dose aspirin outweigh the benefits, according to a U.K. report published in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. About 50 million Americans take low-dose (325 milligrams per...
HEALTH IS REAL WEALTH (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Experts weigh in on the pros and cons of each plan. The key to losing weight—and keeping it off—is to find the eating plan that fits your personality and lifestyle. To help, we've rounded up expert opinions on the pros and cons of the 10 most popular diets in America. "All the popular diets can help you lose weight because they provide almost identical calorie intakes," says...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Filed under: News , Politics , President Obama , Race and Civil Rights The debate over health care in this country is all wrong. The question being debated should be how are we going to provide coverage for millions of uninsured Americans, not if we should do so. It's ironic that the richest country in the history of mankind lets millions of people walk around without decent health coverage and allows...
Motor City Liberal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Think Progress The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that the overwhelming majority of Americans would remain uninsured and continue paying higher premiums under the Republicans’ health care alternative. In fact, it’s unlikely that any of the members of the Republican House Leadership would be able to find affordable insurance under their own proposal, should they chose to give...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A new study finds a link between cardiovascular disease and hip fractures.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A new study indicates dentists can play a potentially life-saving role in health care by identifying patients at risk of fatal heart attacks and referring them to physicians for further evaluation.Published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association, the study followed 200 patients (101 women and 99 men) in private dental practices in Sweden whose dentists used a computerized...
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Merck CEO Richard Clark ( photo ) went to some pains yesterday to make it clear that the merger with Schering-Plough in no way diminishes the pharma giant's appetite for biotech deals. If anything, he says, the bigger company has only grown more hungry. Over the past six years Merck has averaged 50 deals a year, Clark tells the AP . And it has $8 billion in the bank for the planned deal-making spree....
jdach | 11/05/2009
Low Testosterone Could Be Killing You by Jeffrey Dach MD Forty Per Cent More Likely to Die Two reports published in the recent medical literature showed that low testosterone is associated with increased mortality.(1)(2)(3) One study published in 2008 tracked nearly 800 men, 50 to 91 years old, living in California. Their testosterone level was measured at the beginning of the study, and their health
shaunwatsonhrv | 11/05/2009
It is believed that Heart Rate Variability will become as common as pulse, blood pressure or temperature in patient charts in the near future. In the last ten years have been written about Heart Rate Variability . Heart Rate Variability has been used as a screening tool in many disease processes. Heart Rate Variability various medical disciplines are looking at Heart Rate Variability . In diabetes
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
GENEVA, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world's leading semiconductor companies, and Mayo Clinic, a premier health-care organization, are collaborating on a novel platform for remotely monitoring patients with chronic cardiovascular disease. The platform will provide a comprehensive and unobtrusive solution that monitors person-specific data and physiological...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
New research shows that patients with atherosclerosis receiving statin therapy had a significantly reduced risk of developing venous thromboembolism -- a collective term for DVT (blood clot) and pulmonary embolism -- than patients not on statin therapy.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Searching for a needle in a haystack may seem futile, but it's worth it if the needle is a hard-to-detect protein that may identify a person prone to a heart attack. Researchers have taken the first steps toward standardizing the measurement of a blood protein whose presence in higher-than-normal levels may predict an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease.
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jdach | 11/05/2009
Low Testosterone Could Be Killing You by Jeffrey Dach MD Forty Per Cent More Likely to Die Two reports published in the recent medical literature showed that low testosterone is associated with increased mortality.(1)(2)(3) One study published in 2008 tracked nearly 800 men, 50 to 91 years old, living in California. Their testosterone level was measured at the beginning of the study, and their health
shaunwatsonhrv | 11/05/2009
It is believed that Heart Rate Variability will become as common as pulse, blood pressure or temperature in patient charts in the near future. In the last ten years have been written about Heart Rate Variability . Heart Rate Variability has been used as a screening tool in many disease processes. Heart Rate Variability various medical disciplines are looking at Heart Rate Variability . In diabetes...
biocomtechhrv | 10/14/2009
Biocom Technologies is the global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of Heart Rate Variability products. The company was founded in 1996 as a Research and Development Company. Specifically, Biocom develops biomedical software and hardware products designed to monitor physiology for research and educational purposes. Currently our focus is on developing state of the art Heart Rate...
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