Researchers from Berlin, Germany have identified variations in a gene, which contributes to heart failure in the presence of hypertension. The gene, Ephx2, encodes an enzyme (soluble epoxide hydrolase) that normally degrades specific epoxides. In this case, the epoxides can be cardioprotective in the setting of heart failure but not necessarily relevant for healthy individuals. In Read more…
Although maternal suicide after giving birth is a relatively rare occurrence, suicide attempts often have long-lasting effects on the family and the infant. In a study published in the August 2008 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers compared two populations of mothers and found that a history of psychiatric disorders or substance abuse was a strong predictor of post-partum Read more…
Boehringer Ingelheim announced that a new formulation of its powerful blood pressure lowering drug, telmisartan (Micardis®) with hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ), is now available in the UK. The fixed dose combination of 80mg telmisartan and 25mg HCTZ, which will be marketed as MicardisPlus® 80/25mg, is licensed for the treatment of essential hypertension Read more…
Pharmacopeia
(Nasdaq: PCOP), an innovator in the discovery and development of novel
small molecule therapeutics, announced that results from the
company’s Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating PS433540, its first-in-class
Dual Acting Receptor Antagonist (DARA), will be presented as a
late-breaking clinical trial at the American Society of Hypertension (ASH)
Twenty-Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition Read more…
Men’s Health News
Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol. Read more…
New research findings suggest that some food-allergic children may not be equipped with enough potentially life-saving medication to reverse a severe allergic reaction.
According to research to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, a second dose of epinephrine - the drug of Read more…
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Genetic changes during the initiation and progression of prostate cancer have eluded scientists to date. Now for the first time researchers have identified a specific gene expression profile of prostate cancer stem cells, with important implications for future treatments.
The findings, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Biology, revealed 581 genes that are differentially expressed in certain prostate cancer cells, highlighting Read more…
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS) explores the mechanisms behind the common cold virus and how it causes asthma attacks.
The research, funded by the British Lung Foundation, Asthma UK, the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust, is good news for the five million asthma sufferers in Read more…
AstraZeneca announced a European decentralized procedure (DCP) submission seeking approval for two new dose strengths of Atacand Plus, for those hypertensive patients not optimally controlled by monotherapy. The reference member state for the procedure is Sweden, and the submission incorporates data from three studies. Read more…
The Medicines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO) announced that the results of ESCAPE -2, a pivotal Phase 3 efficacy trial of its investigational agent Cleviprex™ Read more…
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Buy lasix pills Heart attacks kill more than 100,000 people annually in the UK and cost the NHS more than ?3billion every year.
Scientists know that heredity plays an important role in causing heart attacks. However the exact genetic mechanisms that transmit the Read more…
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If you’re fishing for ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, you might start with the seafood-rich diet typically served up in Japan. According to new research, a lifetime of eating tuna, sardines, salmon and other fish appears to protect Japanese men against clogged arteries, despite other cardiovascular risk factors.
The research, published in the August 5, 2008, issue of Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), suggests Read more…
The trial is an
eight-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, exploratory study being
conducted in 20 sites in the United States. It will assess the efficacy and
tolerability of rufinamide in up to 230 patients with general anxiety
disorder, as measured by multiple psychometric assessment tools. Patients
randomized to rufinamide will receive 250mg twice a day for one week
followed Read more…
Prescriptions filled for antidepressant drugs increased from 154 million in 2002 to 170 million in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Among the prescriptions (not including refills) which were written after patients Read more…
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Dr. Tom Lue discussed autologous stem cell use for ED. He discussed that ability for the planarian species to regenerate any part of its body, but the salamander can only regenerate a limb. In man there are also stem cells, which are undifferentiated cells that have potential to also regenerate.
In adipose tissue there Read more…
UroToday.com - In this very important and unique study, the authors note that at 19.2 years average follow-up after percutaneous stone removal (PCNL), the incidence of hypertension (34.1%) is no different than after shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) (36.4%).
Of note, the incidence of diabetes (23.5%) at first appeared to be higher than after SWL (16.8%) but in a multivariate Read more…
New research published by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme has assessed methods for predicting and preventing pre-eclampsia, to help guide clinical practice and future research in this area. Pre-eclampsia is part of a group of conditions which cause high blood pressure in pregnancy. It accounts for complications in up to eight per cent of all Read more…
Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say they are the first to provide pre-clinical evidence that pregnancy-induced high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia may be an autoimmune disease. Their research could provide novel diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities for this intractable disease. Findings appear online in Nature Read more…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing the first device made from a new form of natural rubber latex, guayule latex. The product, the Yulex Patient Examination Glove, is derived from the guayule bush, a desert plant native to the Southwestern United States.
Traditional latex gloves are made from the milky sap of a rubber tree, Hevea braziliensis. Read more…
Real or perceived threats can trigger the well-known "fight or flight response" in humans and other animals. Adrenaline flows, and the stressed individual’s heart pumps faster, the muscles work harder, the brain sharpens and non-essential systems shut down. The whole organism responds in concert in order to survive.
At the molecular level, it has been widely assumed that, in single-celled organisms, each Read more…
Primary care has the lead role in easing the burden of common mental disorders in Australia, according to an editorial in the supplement to the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. Read more…
Dementia is one of the major challenges of the 21st century due to the enormous burden these disorders impose on health care systems.
Recently, common pathways of the two most frequent causes of dementia, Alzheimer??s disease and vascular dementia have been suggested.
Today there is tremendous interest in developing effective treatments that will interfere with some step in the disease cascade or Read more…
An article published in The Lancet finds that
cancer patients who received a care package called "Depression Care for
People with Cancer" (DCPC) had Read more…
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Pregnancy rates decrease and miscarriages increase when a father is over 35 years of age, a scientist will tell the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Monday 7 July). Dr. Stephanie Belloc, of the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction, Paris, France, will say that this is the first time that such a strong paternal effect on reproductive outcomes Read more…