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• Clue to foetal blood vessel failure found

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Dec 7 (ANI): Making a big breakthrough, researchers have uncovered why a foetal blood vessel can fail to close shortly after birth, causing serious health problems.A German team showed that if the ductus arteriosus fails to close babies develop high blood pressure in the lungs and heart failure. Researchers at ...
  18 hours ago

• Dog Heart Murmur Symptoms and What to Do

  
  Self Love Tips — Authority: 147
  Dog Heart Murmur Symptoms and What to Do Post from: Self Love Tips . Looking for intuitive awareness in the world today? Bring ancient wisdom translated in the Mayan Daily Insights . When a dog has a heart murmur, what this indicates is that there is abnormal blood flow within the dogs heart. This can be caused ...
  21 hours ago

• What’s up Doc? Why your prescription could be making you ill?

  
  Health 2 u — Authority: 131
  This is exactly one of the questions you need to ask when you find out that your prescription medication you are taking to manage cholesterol is causing nutritive disequilibria in the body, which in turn may make you feel drained, forgetful and pretty lousy, without knowing why? If you’ve been feeling this way for ...
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• Metformin vs. Sulfonylureas for Diabetes

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  Researchers report that diabetes patients who used sulfonylureas had a higher risk of death from all causes and a higher risk of heart failure than diabetes patients who used the most widely prescribed diabetes drug -- metformin.
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• NormOxys Emerges from Stealth with New Class of Oxygen Drugs for Cancer, Heart Failure

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , People. Startups , cancer Luke Timmerman wrote: Everyone needs oxygen, and major health problems can pop up when certain tissues get too little or too much. Now a small biotech company based in Wellesley, MA, co-founded by a Nobel Laureate, says it has discovered a new class of drugs that ...
  3 days ago

• Popular diabetes drugs could elevate risk of heart failure and death

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Dec 4 (ANI): Sulphonylureas, a type of drug widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, has a greater risk of causing heart failure and death as compared to metformin, another popular antidiabetes drug, according to a study.The findings suggest that clinically important differences in the cardiovascular safety ...
  3 days ago

• Sulfonylureas Linked to Higher Risks of Death and Heart Failure (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 163
  Sulfonylurea monotherapy for type 2 diabetes was associated with increased risks of all-cause death and congestive heart failure compared with metformin, a large, retrospective study showed.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Popular diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of heart failure and death

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  Sulphonylureas, a type of drug widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, carries a greater risk of heart failure and death compared with metformin, another popular antidiabetes drug.
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• “Wake Up, Wake Up, Wake Up. ‘Cuz It’s Da First of Da Month…”

  
  Thereafterish. — Authority: 116
  Yesterday was the First. Did everyone have a good First of the Month?I’m a bit late, yes. I know.I got a new camera from my Husby. Well, New to Me kind of “new.” A Nikon D70s. So I’ve been playing around with it and learning to shoot then edit in Aperture. Mostly taking a lot [...]
  5 days ago

• Glue-like injections saving lives of sick babies

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 446
  Injections of a glue-like substance are saving the lives of babies suffering from a rare vascular condition. Dafi Evans, of Talgarreg, Ceredigion, was born with Vein of Galen malformation, a rare condition that causes a rush of blood from the brain to the heart, overwhelming the heart and typically leading to ...
  5 days ago

• ICDs Not as Effective for Women

  
  Healthy Hearts with Heartstrong — Authority: 501
    An implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) is a small device that is implanted in the chest to help correct irregular life threatening heart rhythms (ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation).  When the heart starts beating abnormally the ICD delivers an electrical impulse to the heart to shock it ...
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• Future Medical Insurance Premiums Lowered If We Look After Our Hearts

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  Medical insurance companies are often paying out for treatment for heart conditions. In fact, it is up there at the top with cancers in being one of the biggest factors that will bring down British people. Without medical insurance , sufferers are often subjected to lengthy waits for treatment on the National ...
  5 days ago

• Study links heart failure to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): Patients with high blood pressure who carry a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin D activation are twice as likely as those without the variant to suffer congestive heart failure, a new study has found.Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to increased risk of heart ...
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• Michael Jackson ‘This Is It’ Gets DVD & Blu-ray Release Date!

  
  Backseat Cuddler — Authority: 593
  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has given the late Michael Jackson’s This Is It a release date for the DVD and Blu-ray version of the film.  They aren’t dishing it out for the holiday season so don’t get too excited.  You will have to wait until after the New Year.  January 26, 2010 is the official [...]
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• Heart failure: implantable devices in Europe

  
  SALUTE DOMANI ? IL PORTALE DEL BENESSERE — Authority: 151
  The use of implantable devices for the treatment of heart failure increased "enormously" in Europe between the years 2004 and 2008, but there still remain large differences between countries, according to a study reported today (30 November) in the  European Journal of Heart Failure  (1). The findings suggest ...
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• 2009/11/30

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 437
  Getting it wrong the first time : Almost one-fourth of Medicare heart patients are readmitted within 30 days. Almost one in ten surgeons have made “major” errors recently . Study: Meditation reduces heart attacks and strokes .
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• 10 Things about Bariatric Surgery You Should Know …

  
  All Women Stalk — Authority: 440
  Have you been declared morbidly obese? If so, there are 10 things about bariatric surgery that you should know. While there are a number of options that will help you get down to that desired weight, we understand why you are looking through this form of surgery. I know at times, it may seem like [...]
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• CPR is successful without mouth-to-mouth, but not without oxygen

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- People can survive cardiac arrest if they receive only chest compressions during attempts to revive them -- as advised by the current American Heart Association guidelines. But they cannot survive without access to oxygen sometime during the resuscitation effort, research suggests.
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• New tool may help assist pediatric heart surgery

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): Scientists from University of California, San Diego and Stanford University have developed a novel tool that may help surgeons plan for a life-saving operation called the “Fontan” surgery, which is performed on babies born with severe congenital heart defects. Babies who get this surgery ...
  1 week ago

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