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• Anemia Drugs Procrit And Aranesp May Increase Twofold The Risk Of Potentially Fatal Blood Clots

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 110
  Results From Large Long-Term Study Show Association Between These Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents And Venous Thromboembolism (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) In late October 2009 we learned that the results from the Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Events with Aransep Treatment ...
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• Aranesp Associated With Increased Risk For Stroke In Patients With Diabetes And Chronic Kidney Disease

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 110
  TREAT Study Revealed, Also, That This Amgen Anemia Drug Was No Better Than Placebo In Reducing Deaths Or Cardiovascular Problems (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) The anemia drug Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa) might cause an increased risk for stroke in patients with diabetes and ...
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• Women and Heart Disease

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 148
  My husband and I were visiting my 80-year-old mother-in-law, Eileen, in the hospital the other day after her open-heart surgery. She showed me the incision running down her chest and looked at me ruefully. She said, “I guess I need to throw out all of those bikini tops I have.” I said, “No way! We can sew some ...
  6 days ago

• VIDEO: Dr. Aklog - What Is The Ross Procedure?

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 545
  Dr. Aklog describes the Ross Procedure, a specialized aortic valve replacement surgery. Embed Code:  Transcript:  Dr. Aklog: The Ross Procedure is a fairly complex operation that can be offered to ...
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• Heart Valve Surgery Shines In 2009

  
  Submit Press Release — Authority: 506
  If there is one field of cardiac care that flourished in 2009, it is undoubtedly heart valve surgery. While only 250,000 heart valve operations are performed each year, the news specific to this growing segment of cardiac treatment was extraordinary. First, there were the much-publicized heart valve operations of ...
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• Nigerians Venture to India for Healthcare

  
  PlacidWay - Destination For Health & Wellness Tourism — Authority: 124
  by PlacidWay Middle-class Nigerians are venturing beyond African borders for affordable and quality healthcare services in destinations such as India, where family members may benefit from excellent, quality, and affordable treatments in a multitude of medical fields, including eye care, dental care, ...
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• Coming soon, the Hips and Knees that will Never Wear Out

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 134
  Replacement body parts that never wear out could become a reality within a few years as the  scientists say. Dodgy knees and hips will be repaired using tissue engineering , while donor heart valves from animals are being specially treated to last indefinitely. Longer-lasting artificial joints are already being ...
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• Yasmin And Yaz Birth Control Pills Are Under Scrutiny By Drug Regulators In Europe

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 110
  Bayer Confirms To German Newspaper There Are 129 Yasmin / Yaz Lawsuits In U.S. As Of Mid-October 2009 (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) From an October 21, 2009 article, "Bayer under pressure as birth control pills linked to blood clots" , published by the German newspaper ...
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• Some Of The Drospirenone (DRSP) Progestin Used In Yaz And Yasmin Pills May Have Been Of Bad Quality

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 110
  August 2009 FDA Warning Letter Sent To Bayer Relates To Quality Control Problems Found In March 2009 At German Facility Where DRSP Was Made (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) By means of a September 15, 2009 Associated Press ( AP ) news article, "FDA Warns Bayer Over ...
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