Archive for 2007/03


Fish Oil Helps Statins Reduce Coronary Events In Japanese Patients

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), found naturally in fish oil, could be additionally cardioprotective for people taking statins to lower cholesterol, according to an Article in this week's issue of The Lancet.Epidemiological and clinical evidence suggests that the increased intake of long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially EPA and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)-found in fish and fish oil-protects against mortality from coronary artery disease. [click link for full article]
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03/31/2007 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Life-threatening Effects From Mixing Supplements, Herbs, Over-the-counter Medications And Prescription Drugs

People are mixing supplements, herbs and over-the-counter medications and prescription drugs to cure themselves of ills, unaware that they could be making themselves sicker, says George Grossberg, M.D., director of the division of geriatric psychiatry at Saint Louis University.Dr. Grossberg is about to change all that. [click link for full article]
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03/31/2007 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Why Better TB Care In Africa Is In European Interests

The recent outbreak of a lethal combination of HIV and TB in southern Africa has prompted Britain to pledge an extra US$ 3.15 million (£1.6 million) to the World Health Organization's Stop TB partnership. The fact that all G8 countries admit the presence of TB strains that are extremely resistant to drugs (so-called Extensively Drug-Resistant TB or XDR-TB) brings home the WHO's unsettling message for World TB Day - 'TB anywhere is TB everywhere'. [click link for full article]
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03/31/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

European Medicines Agency Recommends Restricted Use And Strengthened Warnings For Ketek

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended restrictions on the use of Ketek (telithromycin) in three of its four approved indications. For the treatment of bronchitis, sinusitis and tonsillitis/pharyngitis, Ketek should only be used for infections caused by bacterial strains that are suspected or proven to be resistant to or cannot be treated with macrolide or beta-lactam antibiotics. [click link for full article]
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03/30/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

High Concentrations Of Inorganic Fire Gases Can Cause Serious Lung Injury With Only Brief Exposure

High concentrations of nitrogen dioxide gas - inhaled for even very brief periods following fires, explosions of military munitions or detonations of terrorist devices - could cause serious lung damage, scientists reported today at the 233rd national meeting of the American Chemical Society.Dr. Zengfa Gu, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Md. [click link for full article]
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03/29/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

New Drug Free Heat Treatment Helps To Control Asthma

An international study has shown that a new heat treatment called bronchial thermoplasty can help moderate to severe asthma sufferers control their condition for up to 12 months.The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and was conducted in 11 hospitals in the UK, Brazil, Canada and Denmark. [click link for full article]
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03/29/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Xdr-Tb): The Facts

What is XDR-TB? TB can usually be treated with a course of four standard, or first-line, anti-TB drugs. If these are misused or mismanaged, multidrugresistant TB (MDR-TB) can develop. MDR-TB takes longer to treat with second-line drugs, which are more expensive and have more side-effects. If these drugs are also misused or mismanaged, extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) can develop. [click link for full article]
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03/29/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Bacteria From Patient’s Dental Plaque Causes Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Patients admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) already are seriously ill, so the last thing they need is a new infection. Unfortunately, statistics show that as many as 25 percent of all patients admitted to the ICU and placed on ventilators develop pneumonia, which can be fatal. [click link for full article]
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03/29/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Two New Human Cases Of Avian Influenza, Egypt

The Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratory and the US Naval Medical Research Unit Number 3 (NAMRU-3) have confirmed that two more people have become infected with the avian influenza A(H5N1) virus. -- A girl, aged 6, was hospitalized on March 25th with bird-flu-like symptoms. She is from Qena Governorate. -- A boy, aged 5, was hospitalized with bird-flu-like symptoms, also on March 25th. He is from Menia Governate. [click link for full article]
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03/28/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Kamada Begins Phase III Clinical Trial In The U.S. With Its Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Product Indicated For Congenital Emphysema

Kamada (TASE: KMDA, www.kamada.com), an Israeli bio-pharmaceutical company which develops, manufactures and markets prescription drugs, announced that it is beginning the third and last stage of clinical trials before licensure of its flagship product Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT), also known as Alpha-1 Proteinase Inhibitor (API). The clinical trial, which follows FDA-approved protocol, will include 50 patients from the U.S. [click link for full article]
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