11/22/2008
Mechanisms Of Cardiovascular Disease And Cancer Give Clues To New Therapies (Medical News Today)
Cardiovascular conditions leading to heart attacks and strokes are treated quite separately from common cancers of the prostate, breast or lung, but now turn out to involve some of the same critical mechanisms at the molecular level.
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11/21/2008
Mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and cancer give clues to new therapies (PhysOrg)
Cardiovascular conditions leading to heart attacks and strokes are treated quite separately from common cancers of the prostate, breast or lung, but now turn out to involve some of the same critical mechanisms at the molecular level. This in turn provides clues to more effective therapies for both cancer and cardiovascular diseases, but requires researchers in these distinct fields to come ...
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11/18/2008
More than a nagging sprain (Miami Herald)
Q: I am 14 and twisted my right ankle playing soccer. I had X-rays in the emergency room and was told that I had a sprain and that nothing was broken. However, my ankle stayed sore and has only gotten a little better in the last two months. Last week I saw a sports medicine doctor who diagnosed a condition called osteochondritis dissecans. He said that this would need surgery and was the source ...
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11/13/2008
B•R•A•H•M•S Announces New Blood Test Better Predicts Heart Failure Outcomes In Emergency Setting (Medical News Today)
B•R•A•H•M•S today announced positive results from the company's BACH (Biomarkers in Acute Congestive Heart Failure) Multinational Study comparing its new blood test, MR-proADM (Mid-Regional pro-Adrenomedullin) to BNP (B-type Natriuretic Peptide) and NT-proBNP (N-Terminal pro-B-type Natriure
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11/10/2008
Beijing plans to offer free bicycles rental (People's Daily)
Within one year, "free bicycle rental stations" will be established in all communities across the city of Beijing, according to news recently released from the 96156 Community Service Center. This type of rent arrangement, known as the "microcirculation system of public bicycles", has already been put in place at the Maizidian Community in Chaoyang District, with the trial period to commence by ...
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11/11/2008
B--R--A--H--M--S Announces New Blood Test Better Predicts Heart Failure Outcomes in Emergency Setting (Centre Daily Times)
B--R--A--H--M--S today announced positive results from the company's BACH (Biomarkers in Acute Congestive Heart Failure) Multinational Study comparing its new blood test, MR-proADM (Mid-Regional pro-Adrenomedullin) to BNP (B-type Natriuretic Peptide) and NT-proBNP (N-Terminal pro-B-type Natriuretic Peptide), the current industry standard tests used in acute care settings worldwide, as a ...
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11/11/2008
B--R--A--H--M--S Announces New Blood Test Better Predicts Heart Failure Outcomes in Emergency Setting (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW ORLEANS----B·R·A·H·M·S today announced positive results from the company’s BACH Multinational Study comparing its new blood test, MR-proADM to BNP and NT-proBNP , the current industry standard tests used in acute care settings worldwide, as a prognostic indicator in patients with heart failure.
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10/27/2008
Researcher to provide new insight for treating vascular disease (EurekAlert!)
( University of Missouri-Columbia ) University of Missouri researcher Steven Segal has received the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's prestigious Method to Extend Research in Time Award for his work in defining the signaling processes that control blood flow in the smallest, microscopic blood vessels, the microcirculation. Understanding these events could help researchers find novel ...
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10/28/2008
Preventing venous ulceration (Journal of Community Nursing)
A venous ulcer is a wound, usually on the lower leg, that fails to heal within six weeks and is caused by superficial venous hypertension (Peter, 1998) (Figure 1). Leg ulcers are a big problem for both patients and health service resources (Moffatt et al., 1992; Simon et al., 1996; Ruckley, 1997). Most ulcers are associated with venous disease, but other causes or contributing factors include ...
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10/28/2008
New Insight For Treating Vascular Disease (Medical News Today)
The blood circulates through the body in an intricate process that researchers are only beginning to understand.
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