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IOL, South Africa: Aspirin dangerous for elderly?
Cape Town :: South Africa | 3 months ago
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The authors said the findings raise questions as to whether patients with cerebral microbleeds who also take aspirin or similar drugs are at increased risk for even more severe symptomatic brain hemorrhaging. While for many heart attack and stroke patients,...
Tags: heart attack, South Africa, daily aspirin, IOL
Regulatory questions for Astra, Boehringer drugs
Barcelona :: Spain | 3 months ago
Credibility AstraZeneca (AZN.L) and Boehringer Ingelheim both unveiled strong results for new heart drugs at the European Society of Cardiology congress at the weekend -- but neither is guaranteed a home run with regulators. Experts said questions remained about...
Tags: heart attack, AstraZeneca, binge drinkers, Boehringer Ingelheim, Brilinta, blood thinners
Study shows experimental drug cuts stroke risk
Barcelona :: Spain | 3 months ago
Credibility Patients taking the new drug dabigatran etexilate, made by German pharmaceutical Boehringer Ingelheim, also were slightly more likely to have heart attacks or stomach pain, according to the research presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting...
Tags: heart attack, taking aspirin, blood clots, Brilinta, blood thinners, prevents blood, experimental drug
Brill Building songwriter Ellie Greenwich dies
Greenwich :: CT :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Ellie Greenwich, who co-wrote some of pop music's most enduring songs, including "Chapel of Love," "Be My Baby" and "Leader of the Pack," died Wednesday, according to her niece...Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, where she had been admitted a few days earlier...
Tags: Ellie Greenwich, Jessica Weiner, Da Doo Ron Ron, Phil Spector, heart attack, songwriters dead, pack songwriters, greenwich died, New York
Why heart attacks, chest pain seem to hit women harder
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Women are almost twice as likely to die within 30 days of a heart attack compared with men, but the difference disappears when age, medical history and disease severity are taken into account. Researchers found 9.6 per cent of women died within a month...
Tags: heart attack, ACS
Low-carb diets may impair vascular health
Boston :: MA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility U.S. researchers say low-carbohydrate, high protein diets increased atherosclerosis in mice. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found mice fed the 12 percent carbohydrate, 43 percent fat, 45 percent protein diets...
Tags: carb diets, blood vessel, protein diets, heart attack, percent fat, percent carbohydrate, best option, percent protein
Heart attack victims 'lack ongoing support'
York :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
Credibility Plans to provide follow-up care for heart attack victims have fallen drastically short of government targets, with two thirds of sufferers failing to receive proper treatment to help their rehabilitation. New figures accounting for 83,540 people found...
Tags: heart attack, West Midlands, rehabilitation programmes, attack victims, attack patients, cardiac rehabilitation, heart patients
Musician Knechtel part of '70s Bread
Yakima :: WA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Larry Knechtel, a member of the 1970s soft-rock group Bread who had a wide-ranging career as a studio musician, died Thursday in Yakima, Wash., of an apparent heart attack...Knechtel played keyboards, bass guitar and harmonica as a member of the Wrecking...
Tags: Larry Knechtel, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, Yakima Herald-Republic, heart attack, rock group, group bread, studio musician
Smokeless tobacco 'ups risk of heart attack, stroke'
Stockholm :: Sweden | 3 months ago
Credibility Smokeless tobacco products like snus can higher a persons risk of having a fatal heart attack or stroke, says a new study...To reach the conclusion, the research team, led by Dr Paolo Boffetta at International Agency for Research on Cancer in France,...
Tags: North America, smokeless tobacco, heart attack, tobacco products
John Hughes mourned at private service in Illinois
Manhattan :: KS :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Filmmaker John Hughes is being remembered by family and friends who gathered in a Chicago suburb for a private funeral. The director of "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" died of a heart attack Thursday during a walk in Manhattan...In...
Tags: John Hughes, Matthew Broderick, Ben Stein, Vince Vaughn, Ferris Bueller, hughes mourned, heart attack, North Shore, private service, filmmaker john
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