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High blood pressure.
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African Americans May Be At Higher Risk Of Stroke Causing Brain Lesions
Published October 7, 2008, 3:09 am, Medical News Today
ZCerebral microbleeds, which are small bleeds within the brain, appear to be more common in African-Americans than in Caucasians, increasing the likelihood of having a stroke, according to a study published in the October 7, 2008, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. These types of brain lesions can be an important indicator for stroke.
Researchers Explore Issues Related To Multiple Myeloma Treatment
Published October 7, 2008, 3:09 am, Medical News Today
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of plasma cells that affects approximately 3 in 100,000 people each year. Although there is no cure for this disease, researchers have developed treatments that help relieve pain, control complications, and slow the progress of MM in many patients.
Health calendar
Published October 7, 2008, 12:53 am, Asheville Citizen-Times
The complete Health Calendar is posted online at www.CITIZEN-TIMES.com . Scroll down to Living and click on Health.
LENTE Clinic Announces First Patients Treated With the Advance(TM) System for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Published October 7, 2008, 12:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
LENTE Clinic announced today that it had successfully treated its first patients with the third-generation Advance System implant for obstructive sleep apnea.
Phase III Study Showed Rituxan in Combination with Chemotherapy Improved Progression-Free Survival in Patients with ...
Published October 6, 2008, 10:41 pm, Centre Daily Times
Genentech, Inc. (NYSE:DNA) and Biogen Idec (Nasdaq:BIIB) today announced that a global Phase III study of Rituxan(R) (rituximab) in combination with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide chemotherapy met its primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival (PFS), as assessed by investigators, in patients with previously treated CD20-positive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) compared to ...
Bayer to start phase III trial of oral agent riociguat
Published October 6, 2008, 9:47 pm, PharmaBiz
Based on positive phase-II trial findings, Bayer Schering Pharma will move into phase-III trials with its oral agent riociguat (BAY 63-2521). Riociguat is the first member of a new class of vasodilating agents called soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) stimulators.
Metabolic Syndrome Ups Colorectal Cancer Risk
Published October 6, 2008, 8:22 pm, Science Daily
In a large US population-based study, metabolic syndrome patients had a 75 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer compared to those without metabolic syndrome.
Grant Allows Researcher to Examine High Blood Pressure in Women
Published October 6, 2008, 5:21 pm, Newswise
Heidi Kluess, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Arkansas, has received funding to study how the sympathetic nervous system controls blood flow and blood pressure in women as they age.
Researchers discover that SLC2A9 is a high-capacity urate transporter in humans
Published October 6, 2008, 5:12 pm, EurekAlert!
An international team of researchers from the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry with Chris Cheeseman at the University of Alberta in Canada and Kelle Moley at the University of Washington in USA, have shown that the SLC2A9 gene, which encodes a glucose transporter, is also a high-capacity urate transporter, and thus possibly a new drug ...
4-Year Old with Bad Kidney Needs Help
Published October 6, 2008, 2:43 pm, WSAV Savannah
A viewer contacts News 3, concerned about a little girl at church, who suffers from polysystic kidney disease. Her kidney's failed, and the family doesn't have insurance for treatment.
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- Medical Information & Answers to Medical Questions - MedHelp: Has some symptom trackers, including a tracker for high blood pressure
- Variation in energy and nutrient intakes among pre-school children: implications for study design: Background: Within- and between-person variation in nutrient intakes has been characterized in adult populations, but little is known about variation in the diet of pre-school-age d children.
- Vitamin C lowers blood pressure: E.mail t.his a.rticle P.rinter f.riendly p.age Get n.ewsletter Got hypertension? It may be time to try intravenous injection of vitamin C. A new Italian study found that vitamin C intravenously delivered can lower blood pressure by acting on an overactive central nervous system.
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- American Society of Hypertension: The American Society of Hypertension is a non-profit organization dedicated to hypertension and other related cardiovascular disease. Web site contains information about the importance of a healthy diet, with respect to controlling and preventing hyperten
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- Vital Step - A Well Being Enhancement Program for Employers in India :: Slidecast on slidesix.com: This presentation describes Wellinformed Health Care's well being program for Employers in India. Please view it with the Speaker Notes open so that you get all the information about the program.
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