Wrap Up: New Drugs in 2008
Published on Tuesday 30 December 2008 - 13:20 - http://www.basilandspice.com/Suzy Cohen, R. Ph., is a licensed pharmacist with nearly 20 years of clinical experience. The author of The 24-Hour Pharmacist (HarperCollins, July '07) and Drug Muggers; she is "America's Most...
Study: Gastric Bypass Reverses Diabetes In Obese Teens
Published on Monday 29 December 2008 - 20:21 - http://www.injuryboard.com/LEARN MORE' ' Pediatrics 12/29/08' Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens' InjuryBoard on Diabetes' American Diabetes Association' Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation' Children with Diabetes...
'Podginess' raises heart risk
Published on Tuesday 23 December 2008 - 12:26 - http://www.nhs.uk/“Being just a little overweight dramatically raises the risk of heart attacks,” reports the Daily Express. It claims that it is not only the obese who have a higher risk of heart attacks, but that...
Neurology Scans - a new Flesh & Stone feature
Published on Tuesday 23 December 2008 - 02:16 - http://www.fleshandstone.net/The field of neurology intersects with so many aspects of research, culture, business and politics that it seems important to pass along some of the interesting finds that might not have received a...
Good heart news: Death rates down
Published on Wednesday 17 December 2008 - 13:26 - http://www.leadertelegram.com/Like their counterparts throughout the United States, fewer patients in northwestern Wisconsin appear to be dying from heart attacks and strokes, an improvement local medical experts attribute to...
Genzyme, Abbott score FDA approvals
Published on Tuesday 16 December 2008 - 16:44 - http://www.fiercebiotech.com/A pair of developers won significant new approvals from the FDA today.'Genzyme got a green light from the agency to start marketing Mozobil, a drug that lures blood-forming stem cells from the bone...
Madison, St. Clair counties remain on 'Hellhole' watch list; St. Louis named, too
Published on Tuesday 16 December 2008 - 16:00 - http://www.madisonrecord.com/WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Madison County may have moved off the American Tort Reform Foundation's annual list of judicial hellholes, but it -- and surrounding areas -- are still being...
FDA Approves Abbott s Cholesterol Medicine TriLipix
Published on Tuesday 16 December 2008 - 15:02 - http://www.efluxmedia.com/Federal regulators approved Abbott s''TripLipix for stand-alone treatment and combo use to lower...
Death rate from heart attacks at decline
Published on Tuesday 16 December 2008 - 13:15 - http://www.freshnews.in/American Heart Association said on Monday that deaths from heart attacks and strokes declined by about 30% since 1999.''It’s being said as an improvement that may be due to more aggressive...
Deaths from heart attacks, strokes drop
Published on Tuesday 16 December 2008 - 05:34 - http://www.pantagraph.com/MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Deaths from heart attacks and strokes declined by about 30 percent since 1999, an improvement that may be due to more aggressive treatment with cholesterol and blood-pressure...
