News tagged with blockages
Related topics: heart attack , coronary artery , american heart association , blood vessels , heart disease
Magnetic fields drive drug-loaded nanoparticles to reduce blood vessel blockages in an animal study
Scientists and engineers have used uniform magnetic fields to drive iron-bearing nanoparticles to metal stents in injured blood vessels, where the particles deliver a drug payload that successfully prevents ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Excessive cola consumption can lead to super-sized muscle problems warn doctors
Doctors have issued a warning about excessive cola consumption after noticing an increase in the number of patients suffering from muscle problems, according to the June issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Pr ...
May 19, 2009 |
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Chemists find secret to increasing luminescence efficiency of carbon nanotubes (Animation)
Chemists at the University of Connecticut have found a way to greatly increase the luminescence efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes, a discovery that could have significant applications in medical ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Study explains how exercise helps patients with peripheral artery disease
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects 5 million individuals in the U.S. and is the leading cause of limb amputations. Doctors have long considered exercise to be the single best therapy for PAD, and now a new study helps ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Potential new strategy to reduce catheter blockage
Bacterial genes that make urine less acidic could be good targets to prevent catheter blockage, according to research presented at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Harrogate. The ...
Apr 13, 2011 |
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New hope for hard-to-treat heart patients with balloon angioplasty
In some heart patients, coronary arteries become so clogged that they are difficult or impossible to reopen with conventional balloon angioplasties.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Carotid stents associated with greater risk of stroke or death than carotid endarterectomy surgery
For patients with blockages in the carotid artery that supplies blood to the brain, carotid artery stenting (a non-surgical treatment) appears to be associated with an increased risk of both short- and long-term adverse outcomes ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Vacuum cleaner sucks up strokes
A clot vacuum cleaner that sucks out stroke-producing blockages from blood vessels in the brain sounds like science fiction.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
(AP) -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 10, 2010 |
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New assessment quantifies risks and benefits of warfarin treatment for atrial fibrillation
Warfarin therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation - the most common type of significant heart rhythm disorder - appears to be most beneficial for the oldest patients, those who have had a prior stroke and for patients ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Gene may 'bypass' disease-linked mitochondrial defects, fly study suggests
By lending them a gene normally reserved for other classes of animals, researchers have shown they can rescue flies from their Parkinson's-like symptoms, including movement defects and excess free radicals produced in power-generating ...
May 05, 2009 |
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Benefits from upper airway surgery for sleep apnea found to equal CPAP
Adults who struggle with CPAP treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) should be considered candidates for reconstructive surgery on the upper airway, because it holds the same quality-of-life (QOL) benefits but with more ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 01, 2009 |
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