Slicing certain pills in half could slice a hefty amount off of America?s prescription drug costs. While only some types of pills can be split safely, the practice could be used by millions of Americans ? including many of those who take popular cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Look at the clock. In the next three minutes, 10 people in America will suffer a coronary event or stroke, and only six of them will survive. According to a recent report by the American Heart Association (AHA), coronary heart disease (CHD) affects more than 15 million Americans; over five million more are affected by stroke.
Adding to a growing body of evidence, new research shows that a daily dose of pistachios may offer protective benefits against cardiovascular disease, according to a study published in the Volume 26, No. 2 issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) and Bayer HealthCare today announced that ZETIA(R) (ezetimibe), a novel cholesterol-lowering agent that inhibits the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine, is now available in Japan for use in patients with hypercholesterolemia, familial hypercholesterolemia or homozygous sitosterolemia.
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has awarded two Get With the Guidelines Annual Performance Achievement Awards to Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester Medical Center for meeting its high standards for coronary artery disease and stroke care.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional arm of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), called for the elimination of industrial trans fats from food supplies throughout the Americas in order to prevent heart attacks.
There is no good reason to deny insurers access to genetic information, argues a Professor of Ethics in a debate published in this week?s BMJ.
Blocking a single protein with an experimental drug prevented and treated both type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis in laboratory mice that had been fed unhealthy diets and were genetically predisposed to these common killers, according to an article published online at Nature on June 6, 2007.
The relative amount of protein, carbohydrate, and fat that people choose to eat may be influenced by genetics, according to new research. Jose Ordovas, PhD, director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA), and colleagues found that the apolipoprotein A-II gene (APOA2) is associated with proportions of fat, carbohydrate, and protein in the diet, along with total calories and, therefore, with body-mass-index (BMI).
Epidemiologists at the University of Liverpool and the Heart of Mersey have found that approximately half the recent fall in coronary heart disease deaths in the US is due to positive life style changes and a further half to medical therapies.