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Health
February 2008
Ginny Graves |
5 Ways to Prevent a Stroke The link between high blood pressure and strokes is strong. Here's how to lower it.   |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2004 |
Initial Evaluation of Hypertension Treating hypertension and new categories for this disease. |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
FDA OKs Study Design on Medtronic Product That Firm Is Bullish On The product is the Simplicity catheter-based system to treat hypertension, or high blood pressure. |
American Family Physician
June 1, 2006
Wexler & Aukerman |
Nonpharmacologic Strategies for Managing Hypertension Hypertensive therapy interventions in the US, such as lifestyle and dietary modification, often are overlooked. Although some lifestyle modifications may seem to offer only minimal blood pressure-lowering effects, they should not be discounted. |
American Family Physician
May 1, 2006
Luma & Spiotta |
Hypertension in Children and Adolescents The prevalence and rate of diagnosis of hypertension in children and adolescents appear to be increasing. Most childhood hypertension, particularly in preadolescents, is secondary to an underlying disorder. |
American Family Physician
June 1, 2006 |
High Blood Pressure: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is high blood pressure?... What if I have heart or kidney problems or diabetes?... What can I do to help lower my blood pressure?... etc. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2006 |
Type 1 Diabetes: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is type 1 diabetes?... What should I do if I have type 1 diabetes?... How do I control my blood sugar level?... What if my blood sugar level gets too low or too high?... etc. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Gilead: Helping Investors Cope With the Market Diversifying seems to be paying off for the drugmaker. |
Managed Care
September 2004
Tony Berberabe |
Can Physician and Health Plan Get Together Over Guidelines? Physicians are not the only problem. Health plans too often view guidelines as rigid routines rather than flexible aids to good practice. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Everyday Ways To Lower Blood Pressure The following drug-free high blood pressure treatments have been scientifically proven and can really pay off if you take the time to explore them. |
Wired
September 25, 2007
P. D. |
How to: Make Fake Blood As Halloween fast approaches, here is a tip to get the right consistency of blood for your costume. |
Chemistry World
September 20, 2006
Victoria Gill |
`Silent Killer' as Treatment for Heart and Lung Disease Carbon Monoxide (CO), a gas once dubbed the `silent killer' by the UK's health and safety executive, could provide a life-saving treatment for an incurable lung and heart condition, report researchers. |
Food Processing
June 2005
David Feder, R.D. |
Bad science slams salt Again this year, salt was slammed by both the USDA and the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- in reports that had all of the trappings of legitimate science, but little, if any, substance. |
Reason
July 2004
Caroline Waters |
Bloody Shame Unnecessary regulations are making American blood banks run dry. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Intel Has RFID Technology in Its Blood A new blood bank RFID program in Malaysia could lead to big opportunities for investors. |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2003
Magill et al. |
New Developments in the Management of Hypertension Advances in the management of hypertension have refined our understanding of systolic blood pressure, nutrition, medication selection, and hypertension in special populations. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2008
Mark Peplow |
vCJD filter for blood could be in use 'by summer' ProMetic's prion filter, attached to a blood pack, is being marketed by French medical equipment company MacoPharma to clean blood of the proteins responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). |
Chemistry World
May 1, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
Blood Substitutes Pose Worrying Risks Oxygen-carrying blood substitutes currently in clinical trials are associated with a much higher likelihood of serious adverse events such as heart attack and death. |
American Family Physician
April 15, 2006
Mark H. Ebell |
Outpatient vs. Inpatient Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia What is the role of clinical prediction tools in helping physicians decide on inpatient or outpatient treatment for patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)? |
Chemistry World
January 21, 2011
Jennifer Newton |
Early lung cancer diagnosis Patients with lung cancer have elevated levels of a specific protein in their blood that could be used as a biomarker for the disease, say scientists from South Korea. |
Chemistry World
July 14, 2011
Holly Sheahan |
No More Oxygen for Artificial Lung US scientists have mimicked the structure of a lung to make a device that can use air as a ventilating gas instead of pure oxygen. The invention could mean that implantable devices could be a step closer. |
Chemistry World
May 4, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Blood type testing for a few pence 'Our technique prints a microfluidic circuit containing the three antibodies (A, B and D) directly onto paper,' says Gil Garnier, who led the research at Monash University in Melbourne. |
Managed Care
June 2001
Darcy Lewis |
National Guideline Clearinghouse: Extensive Resource Underused It's there on the Web, highly convenient. What keeps physicians away? |
Chemistry World
December 18, 2013
Sarah Kenwright |
Excess glucose limits blood transfusion success Reducing the level of glucose in solutions used to process blood donations could benefit patients receiving blood transfusions, new research shows. |
Chemistry World
October 2010 |
Artificial blood Synthetic alternatives to donor blood have been stuck in development for decades. Nina Notman reports on recent promising progress |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2007
Michael Gross |
Blood Transfusion Risk Explained Two research groups have discovered that nitric oxide disappears rapidly from banked blood -- a finding that may explain recent medical studies showing that blood transfusions can sometimes increase a patient's chances of dying from a lack of oxygen. |
Nursing Management
July 2010
Lois Welden |
Transfusion confusion Over the past decade, literature has indicated that liberal use of blood transfusions results in poor clinical outcomes in the majority of critically ill patients. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2010
Jason Moser |
A Bloody Good Stock for Investors Haemonetics' business might be a little messy, but it's the kind of company you should invest in. Haemonetics is in the business of management; blood management, that is. |
Popular Mechanics
December 16, 2008
Michael Milstein |
Bringing Stem Cells to War: Meet the Blood Pharmers Fresher blood is better than stale: It carries more oxygen and, when transfused into patients, speeds recovery. |
Health
January 2007
Scott Westcott |
9 Secrets to a Healthier Heart They all help cut your risk of heart disease, the top cause of death among women. Are you ready to drink milk and groove to jazz? |
Managed Care
February 2002
Alan M. Muney |
Evidence-Based Medicine Needs To Be Promoted More Vigorously This means using a carrot-and-stick approach with physicians. Those who respect the evidence should be rewarded; others should face penalties... |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2013
Rowan Frame |
Nanomagnets clean blood Nanoparticles that never have to enter the body can capture harmful components in blood, scientists in Switzerland have shown. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2002
Konzem et al. |
Controlling Hypertension in Patients with Diabetes Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are common diseases in the United States. Patients with diabetes have a much higher rate of hypertension than would be expected in the general population. Regardless of the antihypertensive agent used, a reduction in blood pressure helps to prevent diabetic complications. |
Chemistry World
November 14, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Novartis sells off blood diagnostics division Swiss-based company Novartis has agreed to sell off its blood transfusion diagnostics unit to Spanish blood products specialist Grifols for $1.7 billion. |
Chemistry World
November 7, 2014
Katrina Kramer |
Smartphone delivers rapid blood group test The test is simple enough to be used by non-experts and the smartphone link could help users at remote medical facilities. |
Managed Care
March 2001
John A. Marcille |
Should That Apple a Day Be Red, Green, or Golden? So if everyone's at least in agreement that preventing illness should be a common goal, why is a mutual understanding of "prevention" so elusive? |
American Family Physician
June 1, 2003
Marchiando & Elston |
Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring: Clinical Utility in the Family Practice Setting Discriminate use of this technology in specific clinical circumstances assists in identifying patients at risk for hypertension and may result in improved outcomes in a subset of patients. |
Chemistry World
May 21, 2014
Kirsty Muirhead |
Immunocamouflage lets donor blood cells go undetected Chinese scientists are developing a new approach to create "universal" blood: red blood cells that can be transfused into any patient, regardless of the patient's or recipient's blood group. |
