Cardiology
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<ѻý>AHA: FDA Drops Clopidogrel Bomb at AHAѻý>
ORLANDO -- The FDA has issued a public health advisory warning patients and physicians that concommitant use of clopidogrel (Plavix) and omeprazole (Prilosec and Prilosec OTC) blunts the antiplatelet effect of clopidogrel, so the combination should be avoided.
Nov 17, 2009
<ѻý>CT Safety Warnings Follow Radiation Overdose Accidentѻý>
Reports of stroke patients who were accidentally exposed to eight times the normal radiation dose during diagnostic CT scans at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are prompting safety warnings and soul searching in radiology.
Oct 15, 2009
<ѻý>ESC: Peto Analysis Called Short on Proof of Simvastatin/ Ezetimibe Cancer Safetyѻý>
SEATTLE -- Simvastatin/ezetimibe (Vytorin) may increase the risk of cancer after all, concluded a leading American biostatistician who dismissed as prematurely reassuring an analysis by Richard Peto, Ph.D., F.R.S., that found the link with excess malignancy to be overblown.
Sep 04, 2008
<ѻý>Cardiac Arrest Survivors Can Expect Good Long-term Quality of Lifeѻý>
MARBURG, Germany -- Resuscitated cardiac arrest patients treated in an ICU who leave the hospital without severe neurological disabilities may expect a reasonable quality of life over the next five years, a study found.
Jul 17, 2008
<ѻý>ACC: Senate Probe Finds Evidence that Drug Firms Worked to Delay ENHANCE Resultsѻý>
CHICAGO -- E-mails made public today described outrage more than a year ago by the ENHANCE trial's principal investigator because he perceived that a drugmaker was withholding bad results about ezetimibe/simvastatin (Vytorin) for non-scientific reasons.
Mar 31, 2008
<ѻý>ASNC: Caffeine Screens Before Stress Tests Often Miss Positives
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SAN DIEGO -- Routine screening by questionnaire for caffeine intake before pharmacologic cardiac stress testing fails to identify most patients who have detectable serum levels of the stimulant, investigators said here.
Sep 12, 2007
<ѻý>Heartburn Remedy May Help Treat Heart Failureѻý>
SUITA CITY, Japan -- Heart failure patients who added 30 mg of Pepcid (famotidine) to standard therapy significantly improved NYHA functional class and reduced plasma B-type natriuretic peptide levels compared with those given 150 mg of teprenone.
Sep 25, 2006
<ѻý>Blood Clots Linked to Alzheimer's and Vascular Dementias
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MANCHESTER, England — Spontaneous cerebral blood clots were detected at similar rates in patients with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, suggesting a common pathology and a potentially preventable or treatable cause for some dementias, researchers here said.
Apr 28, 2006
<ѻý>ACP: Garlic, Ginseng, Ginkgo Biloba, and Ginger All Bad Actors with Coumadinѻý>
PHILADELPHIA - When it comes to adverse events associated with Coumadin (warfarin) therapy, beware of herbs and many supplements beginning with the letter G, according to a University of Washington investigator.
Apr 09, 2006
<ѻý>ACC: Coronary Artery Disease Patients Should Have Low LDL Goal
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ATLANTA, March 10 - For all patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD), the goal of therapy should be to get LDL cholesterol lower than 70 mg/dL, said Christie Ballantyne, M.D., director of the center for cardiovascular disease prevention at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Mar 22, 2006
<ѻý>Medicare Will Pay for tPA in Stroke Thrombolysisѻý>
WASHINGTON-Medicare is about to announce that beginning in October it will start paying hospitals for use of the thrombolytic drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for treatment of ischemic stroke, according to published reports.
Aug 04, 2005