A study confirms that medication-releasing stents reduce scar tissue formation in saphenous vein grafts, and patients receiving them have lower short-term incidence of vessel re-narrowing, heart attack and death. The study is described in the November 2005 issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions: Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.
Research presented at the American Dietetic Association's (ADA) annual meeting revealed that tea provides more flavonoid antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the U.S. diet. Other studies presented at the conference indicated that tea flavonoid antioxidants might provide a myriad of health benefits, including reduced risk for heart disease, control of metabolic syndrome and blood glucose regulation as well as emerging neuroprotective effects.
Researchers have developed a human nephron filter (HNF) that would eventually make possible a continuously functioning, wearable or implantable artificial kidney. This study is published in the latest issue of Hemodialysis International.
Survey of U.S. teachers finds classrooms crawling with infectious 'bugs'. American children miss 22 million days of school each year due to colds, flu and other infections, experts say.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Higher daily doses of some commonly used non-aspirin pain-relievers increase the risk of high blood pressure in women, the results of two studies suggest. "Our results have substantial public health implications," the researchers write, "and suggest that these agents be used with greater caution."
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) announced today that it is halfway toward realizing the first phase of a multi-year campaign to build upon the university's groundbreaking stem cell research and lead the effort to fully realize the therapeutic potential of stem cells. Of the $50 million goal for the first stage of the campaign, $25 million has been raised from the private sector, specifically for diabetes and neural stem cell research.
Medical errors kill nearly 100,000 American each year, with lethal drug interactions accounting for most of these deaths. Computerization -- which hospitals have been
slow to embrace -- was supposed to eliminate most problems, but new research published Wednesday indicates that even the best computer system can
MICHAEL Ridley is a walking advertisement for the benefits of modern health care: he had his fourth hip replacement last December.
With the cost of a full hip replacement now running at about $25,000, such care does not come cheap. But then again, had the artificial hip not been developed this affable regional doctor would possibly, by now, not be walking at all.
