Decaffeinated Coffee May Not be Good for Your Heart

January 29th, 2007 A large study, conducted by Dr. James M. Brophy and his colleagues, from the McGill University Health Center in Montreal, confirms that selective COX2 inhibitors - Vioxx (rofecoxib) and Celebrex (celecoxib) are both associated with increased risk of repeat heart attack.

May 7th, 2005 Cranberries are long known for beneficial effects on UTI (Urinary Tract Infection). Diabetic and immunosuppressed patients (after kidney or heart transplant) are more susceptible to recurrent UTI problems, women much more then men.

September 27th, 2005 Pfizer Inc. said U.S. regulators (FDA) have approved its cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor. Lipitor is used to reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack in diabetic patients.

May 11th, 2005 Scientists at University of Florida discovers that beta-blockers are not suitable for certain group of patients, which can be determined by their genetic makeup. In fact for this group beta-blocker therapy actually worsens the heart enlargement problem.

March 23rd, 2005 "Positron Emission Tomography is being installed at AIIMS next month, through which we will get the final proof of our work on heart patients. All the patients would be screened for finding how viable our work was and would also study various heart tissues of the patients metabolically," Dr P Venugopal, director AIIMS, said.  "We also plan to inject stem cells directly into the pancreatic arteries of patients suffering from diabetes," he says.

October 7th, 2005 I have moved the coverage of all Health related news to a separate blog - Consanesco. Here is the summary of important news from this week: Cervical Cancer Preventable with Vaccination Repeat Angioplasty Increases Heart Attack Risk NSAID Lowers Oral Cancer Risk in Smokers; Increases Heart Disease Risk Why Babies of Diabetic Women with are 2-5 Times more Likely to Develop Birth Defects And How to Prevent it

November 15th, 2006 A few bits of dark chocolate a day can have the same benefit as aspirin in reducing blood clots and preventing heart attacks, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine concluded in a study of chocolate lovers. "What these chocolate 'offenders' taught us is that the chemical in cocoa beans has a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack," lead researcher Diane Becker from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine told the annual conference of the American Heart Association, in Chicago.

July 23rd, 2005 A doctor told jurors yesterday in the nation's first Vioxx lawsuit that the drug contributed to the death of a Texas man, aged 59, who had an arrhythmia linked to a heart attack in 2001. ''His taking of Vioxx caused and/or contributed to his heart attack," Dr.

February 24th, 2005 It can now be announced that AIIMS has marked a global first in pioneering stem cell medicine by the "injection method", placing the institute right at the top of the world's medicine map. This is very exciting news for diabetics and heart transplant patients.

July 8th, 2005 Merck tried to patent a drug that would reduce heart attack risks for Vioxx (COX-2 selective inhibitors) users, three years before the company withdrew the painkiller drug from the market because of safety concerns. According to government records, the company applied for the patent in 2001.

July 18th, 2005 You may be a genius but that doesn't assure you of living happily when it matters most, when you are old and vulnerable than ever before. Not so intelligent people take heart.

May 18th, 2005 Valsartan, commercially known as Diovan, a drug that controls blood pressure and reduces heart risk, also appears to protect against diabetes, especially in high-risk people, according to new research presented at the American Society of Hypertension's Twentieth Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2005) by a University of Michigan physician who helped lead the study. The randomized trial involved 15,313 patients at 942 sites in 31 countries, of whom 9,995 did not have diabetes at the start of the study.

April 11th, 2005 It is not how obese you are but the location of obesity that matters according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Where adults carry their fat, rather than how much of it they have, might be a better indicator of their risk for metabolic syndrome, a disorder that causes high blood pressure and insulin resistance in 22 percent of U.S.

April 13th, 2005 News-Medical-Net reports In an Australian first, UNSW researchers have developed three clones of cells from existing human embryonic stem cells. The breakthrough could lead to new treatments for conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury.

August 23rd, 2007 That has to be bad, isn't it? As per the definition I am really really obese, way beyond regular fat guy. Let's see what the heck is BMI.