Catherine Demers Recombinent human growth hormone has achieved clinical responses when used for treating heart failure. Catherine Demers of McMaster University told the American...
November, 2005
Diabetic Patients: Some Benefits from Fibrates+
Anthony Keech Among nearly 10 000 patients with maturity onset diabetes the use of fenofibrate to lower cholesterol produced a 24 per cent statistically...
NSAIDs Raise Death Risk post-MI+
Gunnar Gislason As the dust continues to settle on the Vioxx issue, there is naturally a desire to look further at potential cardiovascular risks...
Lytics before PCI: ASSENT Denied+
Frans van der Werf Near-complete data from the ASSENT-4-PCI trial investigating facilitated PCI (combining both thrombolysis and primary PCI after acute myocardial infarction) has...
Withholding Abciximab Infusion After Stenting+
Olivier Bertrand The use of abciximab perfusion after stenting was questioned at the American Heart Association meeting in Dallas. The EASY study found bolus...
Levosimendan Improves Heart Failure Progression+
Milton Packer In the REVIVE trial the inotropic agent levosimendan has improved short-term outcome in acutely decompensated heart failure. Milton Packer from the University...
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Gordon Tomaselli Gordon Tomaselli commented on Milton Packer’s findings at the Dallas meeting of the American Heart Association. Click here for all the interviews...
Hypertension: Pressure Different at the Centre+
Bryan Williams Bryan Williams, University of Leicester Measuring blood pressure with a cuff around the arm does not always give a clear picture of...
REPAIR-AMI: Progenitor Cells Regenerate the Heart after Infarction+
Volker Schächinger Regeneration of the heart has been achieved by using bone-marrow derived stem cells after myocardial infarction among 200 patients. Volker Schächinger, University...
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Gordon Tomaselli Gordon Tomaselli, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Gordon Tomaselli commented on Volker Schächinger’s findings at the Dallas meeting of the American Heart...
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Judith Hochman from New York University told Audio Medica that patients taking aspirin need to take it half an hour before any NSAID in...