Topic: United States
(Reuters) - Elderly men with naturally higher levels of testosterone may be less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those men with lower levels of the hormone, according to a study.Findings published in the Journal of the American College ...
(Reuters) - Vermillion Inc said its experimental blood test showed promise in identifying patients with risk of blood vessel clots, sending its shares up 10 percent in morning trade.The company found that the test Vasclir showed statistically significant different levels of three ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Failing erections may be a harbinger of heart disease in some men, according to a review of a number of studies -- but heart-healthy lifestyle changes or cholesterol-lowering drugs could have a positive impact on men's sexual health.Scientists ...
Increasing the time spent administering CPR to cardiac arrest patients won't increase their chances of survival, researchers said Wednesday, putting to rest one of the raging debates in emergency medicine."Our study definitively shows that there is no advantage to a longer period ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Chocolate may be good for the heart but cardiologists are not giving you a license to indulge.New research presented at Europe's biggest medical meeting Monday suggested chocolate consumption might be associated with a one third reduction in the risk ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new, highly effective class of psoriasis drugs did not appear to raise the risk of heart problems in a review of published studies, but the analysis may not have been big enough to detect rare cases, U.S. researchers ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Stem cell researchers in Hong Kong and the United States are trying to grow spare parts for the human heart that may be ready for tests on people within five years, they said on Thursday.Scientists have already made ...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Edwards Lifesciences Corp's heart valve for patients deemed too sick to have open-heart surgery was approved by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Wednesday, despite concerns that it could increase the risk of stroke.After deliberating on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drug reviewers said Edwards Lifesciences' heart valve "demonstrated superiority" in a trial that also showed the device's safety and effectiveness for patients considered too sick to have open-heart surgery.The trial, however, also showed people were at a high risk ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who've suffered cardiac arrest usually get a shot of adrenaline to help their heart back on track, but in a controversial study from Australia the hormone did little to increase patients' survival.Researchers did find, however, that ...
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