Topic: Western Europe

Medicare publicly reports each hospital's death and readmission rates for patients with several conditions. At the recent American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, two studies of patients with heart failure provided a striking negative verdict on remote monitoring. First, a study from ...
Medicare publicly reports each hospital's death and readmission rates for patients with several conditions. At the recent American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, two studies of patients with heart failure provided a striking negative verdict on remote monitoring. First, a study from ...

Diabetes drug 'may have killed 500 in France'

Drug safety body Afssaps urged patients who used Mediator, a drug for overweight people with diabetes that was also used as an appetite suppressant, to see their doctors if they had taken it for more than three months."Analyses by expert epidemiologists estimate ...

Drug-coated stents safe for large heart arteries

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drug-coated heart stents are as safe as the old bare metal variety for patients with narrowed large coronary arteries, a large European study showed, alleviating concerns about their long-term use.There was no increase in the number of deaths or ...

Papaverine

Papaverine (Papaverine - EverydayHealth.com ) is an opium alkaloid used primarily in the treatment of visceral spasm , vasospasm (especially those involving the heart and the brain ), and occasionally in the treatment of erectile dysfunction . Papaverine may also be used ...

Carberry out of Australia trip

Hampshire's Michael Carberry has been ruled out of the England Performance Programme's trip to Australia.. Instead he was selected as part of the EPP, who will shadow the senior side until December 17.. Carberry's club-mate Jimmy Adams will travel with the EPP, ...
Working as an editor and learning a lot made my eyes very sensitive. In Hungary I used to swim outside but since I live here in the UK I have opportunity only for indoor swimming. I found that this antifog protection doesn?t ...
Globally, about 20,000 people die each year as a direct result of sitting in cramped conditions in an airplane. Airlines have known for some years that there is a serious risk of developing a fatal Deep Vein Thrombosis (or DVT) on long ...
The article reports on the important contributions to Ulster medicine of Irish Cardiologist Professor James Francis " Pantridge is the inventor of the portable defibrillator, better known as the Pantridge defibrillator, which transformed the cardiac ambulance. Patrick J Morrison INTRODUCTION It is ...
The article presents abstracts of papers on medical topics discussed during the 81st meeting of Ulster Society of Internal Medicine in Portadown, Northern Ireland on May 15, 2009, which include the prognosis of basilar artery occlusion due to atrial fibrillation, the efficacy ...