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• Hidden Danger…Who Else With Rheumatoid Arthritis Has Anemia?

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 137
  Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory, systemic, autoimmune disease for which there is no known cure. It is a common disorder and affects more than 2.1 million Americans. Because it is a systemic condition, it affects more than joints. Like other inflammatory conditions, RA causes anemia. The anemia is ...
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• Drugs to treat anemia in cancer patients linked to thromboembolism

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  (Columbia University Medical Center) Medications frequently given to cancer patients to reduce their risk of anemia are associated with an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, according [...]
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• Anemia Drugs May Cause Deadly Blood Clots

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 545
  TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- New research on cancer patients adds to the controversy surrounding anemia drugs such as Procrit and Aranesp, concluding that they increase the risk of venous thromboembolism, potentially fatal blood clots . read more
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• Drugs to treat anemia in cancer patients linked to thromboembolism

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  NEW YORK -- Medications frequently given to cancer patients to reduce their risk of anemia are associated with an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, according to new res
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• U.C.L.A. engineer adapt cellphones to substitute Microscopes

  
  WhoInnovated.com — Authority: 152
  Microscopes are tools used in identifying blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. An engineer at U.C.L.A. Read the original here: U.C.L.A. engineer adapt cellphones to substitute Microscopes
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• Mobiles as microscopes

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 500
  Nuwan Waidyanatha’s RTBP project at LIRNEasia examines how mobiles can be used to communicate epidemiological information from the field for analysis through data mining. Here , the mobile can be used to directly gather data from patients. MICROSCOPES are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when ...
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• How to Cure a Vitamin B12 Deficiency

  
  Health and Medic — Authority: 140
  Pernicious anemia is a type of anemia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency. The deficiency of vitamin B12 is due to the inability of the digestive tract to absorb this vitamin. Vitamin B12 is seen in abundantly in fish, meat and dairy products and is essential for healthy nervous system and the production of red blood ...
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• Sex Watch: Tyra Banking On “Woman With Two Vaginas”

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 803
  So get this: a woman with two vaginas — that’s right, TWO VAGINAS — that’s right, vaginas, which is a naughty word — is appearing on The Tyra Show today , presumably to talk about the fact that she has two vaginas. Wait, why is this not-actually-all-that-rare condition getting so hyped up? From the ...
  5 days ago

• Hospitalized: Some Answers

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 429
  OK, this is day three, and the hospital is starting to get old.  However, the answers are coming in. And as I write this, two nurses are setting me up for my first-ever blood transfusion, and I just learned that my blood type is A-positive. (I should have known that, but Id forgotten.) So this is what I know so ...
  6 days ago

• Will New Anemia Drug Top Current Treatments?

  
  Pharmamics — Authority: 128
  A new drug designed to treat patients with a rare form of anemia could possibly have wider applications, perhaps replacing other anemia treatments that have been linked to an increased risk of death, cancer and stroke, experts say.The drug, Hematide, was successful in treating patients who have pure red-cell aplasia, ...
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• Ian Poulter, Camilo Villegas: Caddy for a Cure

  
  Celebrity Athletes Charity Gigs & Gossip — Authority: 122
  Ian Poulter, Camilo Villegas: Caddy for a Cure Congratulations to the flashiest golf cat on the greens, Ian Poulter, for winning the 2009 Singapore Open…but its not his victory on the golf course that’s got me smiling today, its his recent participation in Caddy for a Cure . In case you’ve been under a ...
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• Insurance Company Profits

  
  Health Choices — Authority: 146
  In Assosiated Press reports said that health insurance has a profit margin of 2.2 percent, so the top industry 500th place on the list of Fortune. Like other health sector is not much better as well services and medical products above 10 so that Calvin Woodward reported. Networking and communications equipment have ...
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• ASN: Statin Does Not Enhance Sensitivity to Anemia Treatment (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) Although statins get credit for many benefits besides lowering lipids, they don’t increase sensitivity to anemia treatment in patients on hemodialysis, a post hoc analysis [...]
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• Aranesp Increases Risk of Stroke for Some Patients: Study

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 552
  New research suggests that side effects of Aranesp , an anemia drug, could increase the risk of stroke in some patients. According to a study published Friday in the online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine , diabetes patients on Aranesp faced nearly twice the risk of stroke when compared to those ...
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• 15 States Including California Are Suing Amgen – Alleging Kickbacks and Overfill Billings to Boost Sales of Aranesp

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The drug, Aranesp is used with chemotherapy and chronic renal failure to increase red blood cells and was approved by the FDA in 2001. We are hearing more about drug marketing today and now it’s spilling over to the “biotech” drug companies for investigation. The suit states that providers were bribed and ...
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• Study finds stroke risk from anemia drug Aranesp

  
  Pharmamics — Authority: 128
  A new study raises fresh safety concerns about widely used anemia medicines, finding that the drug Aranesp nearly doubled the risk of stroke in people with diabetes and chronic kidney problems who are not yet sick enough to need dialysis.The study is the largest ever of these blood-boosting drugs and the only one that ...
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• Anemia Drug May Raise Stroke Risk in Kidney Patients

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 545
  SATURDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) -- A drug designed to fight anemia appears to double the risk of stroke in patients with diabetes and kidney disease without substantially improving their quality of life, a new study finds. Image:  read more
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• Why does Kim Zolciak wear a wig? She blames anemia, thyroid condition for hair loss / wig use

  
  starcasm.net — Authority: 594
  On The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 2 Reunion Special, Part 1 Andy Cohen brought up Kim’s odd story at last year’s reunion about how not having cancer made her hair fall out. Basically, Kim delivered the story with the word “cancer” upfront to make everyone feel shocked and sad for her, until she later ...
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• Study finds stroke risk from anemia drug Aranesp

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  A new study raises fresh safety concerns about widely used anemia medicines, finding that the drug Aranesp nearly doubled the risk of stroke in people with diabetes and chronic kidney problems who are not yet sick enough to need dialysis....
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• Amgen Sued By New York, 14 Other States

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 561
  Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen is the subject of a lawsuit being filed by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, along with 14 other states, claiming that the biotech firm created a kickback scheme to boost drug sales. According to Cuomo, the lawsuit, filed today in federal court, claims that Amgen, ...
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