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Last news: August 28, 2007 08:00:00

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Last news: August 31, 2007 03:00:00

Inexpensive pill box organizers are an easy, successful, and cost-effective tool to help patients take their medications as prescribed, according to a new study of low-income urban residents living with HIV infection by authors from the Berkeley School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). - [Read more]

A survey of convenience stores in the south west section of Rochester has revealed that 95% offer little or no healthy foods. - [Read more]

Sleep disorder and ear, nose and throat specialists at Thomas Jefferson University are examining an innovative procedure to treat obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. - [Read more]

IDM Pharma, Inc. ( NASDAQ:IDMI ) announced today that it received a not approvable letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after completing the review of the new drug application (NDA) for the investigational drug mifamurtide (L-MTP-PE), formerly known as Junovan, for the treatment of non-metastatic osteosarcoma, a rare and often fatal bone tumor that typically affects children and young adults. - [Read more]

Rasilez (aliskiren), the first new type of high blood pressure medicine in more than a decade, has been approved for use in the European Union. Nearly half of all adults in Europes largest countries, such as Germany, Italy and the UK, suffer from this potentially life-threatening condition5. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A large new Japanese study suggests that middle aged men who drink heavily could see their blood pressure rise, regardless of whether their levels of "good" cholesterol also go up.Study author Ichiro Wakabayashi also found that the older men who participated all in their 50s were more susceptible to the blood pressure-boosting effects of heavy drinking than younger men. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

British scientists say they have found a new way to regulate hypertension (high blood pressure). - [Read more]

According to the insurance company Standard Life, Brits are drinking themselves to obesity. - [Read more]

A nanoparticle drug delivery system designed for brain tumor therapy has shown promising tumor cell selectivity in a novel cell culture model devised by University of Nottingham scientists. The project, conducted jointly in the Schools of Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences and Human Development, will be featured in the September issue of the Experimental Biology and Medicine. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Avastin (bevacizumab), Roches innovative anti-cancer drug, was approved today in Europe for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy. - [Read more]

The first comprehensive, nationally representative survey on the prevalence of sexual activity among older Americans provides a portrait of the intimate lives of people ages 57 to 85. - [Read more]

A novel way of regulating blood pressure has been discovered by British scientists. This breakthrough could lead to innovative drugs that fight heart attacks and stroke. One quarter of UK adults suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure). Despite being treated with potent medication, many never manage to get their blood pressure levels back to normal. Scientists at Kings College London have found a pathway which involves oxidation. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, remains the most common reason for office visits to physicians for non-pregnant adults in the United States. Some 50 million Americans are believed to have hypertension. Despite its prevalence and the complications associated with it, control of the disease is far from adequate. As a result, hypertension will likely remain the most common risk factor for stroke, heart failure, and kidney disease for years to come. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Practising physicians are nowadays presented with official guidelines on the treatments they should give their patients. In an article published in PLoS Medicine, researchers have attempted to grade the quality of evidence used in drawing up the recommendations contained in guidelines for the treatment of patients with diabetes, high blood pressure and dyslipidemia (abnormal levels of fats in the blood). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

In a study of children and adolescents with hypertension, only about one in four had been previously diagnosed with the condition, according to a study in the August 22/29 issue of JAMA . - [Read more]

According to a study by researchers in the United States, children and adolescents with high blood pressure are not being diagnosed. - [Read more]

A new study found that only about one quarter of all children and adolescents with high blood pressure (hypertension) seem to have been diagnosed with the condition. You can read about this study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), August 22/29 issue. About 2%-5% of children/adolescents suffer from hypertension. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

High blood pressure (hypertension) is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, and the frequent use of drugs known as NSAIDs, for example to treat individuals with rheumatoid arthritis, can cause hypertension. Exactly why NSAIDs cause hypertension is not clear because they inhibit the generation of several soluble factors (known as prostaglandins) that can affect blood pressure and the effects of inhibiting the individual receptors for prostaglandins are not known. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Exercise cannot reduce a sodium-retaining hormone in African Americans known to potentially cause hypertension, found Michael D. Brown, Ph.D., the senior author of a study in the September issue of Experimental Physiology. Brown is an associate professor of kinesiology at Temple Universitys College of Health Professions. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Dr Isabel Lee of The Stroke Association comments: "Every five minutes someone in the UK has a stroke - thats 150,000 every year. Yet, over 40 per cent of these strokes could be prevented by the control of high blood pressure. "Whilst it is important to get your blood pressure measure regularly, it is equally important that people who are prescribed blood pressure medication, continue to take it even once their blood pressure is back under control. [click link for full article] - [Read more]