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A stroke is a medical emergency. Strokes happen when blood flow to your brain stops. Within minutes, brain cells begin to die. There are two kinds of stroke. The more common kind, called ischemic stroke, is caused by a blood clot that blocks or plugs a blood vessel in the brain. The other kind, called hemorrhagic stroke, is caused by a blood vessel that breaks and bleeds into the brain. "Mini-strokes" or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), occur when the blood supply to the brain is briefly interrupted.

Women's Health Congress to explore mammography controversy

The ongoing controversy about the appropriate age, frequency, and patient benefit of mammography will be explored at the upcoming 19th Annual Congress on Women's Health, April 1-3, 2011 in Washington DC.

18 Jan 2011

New guideline recommends plasmapheresis usage to treat people with severe relapses in MS, neuropathies

A new guideline from the American Academy of Neurology recommends using plasma exchange to treat people with severe relapses in multiple sclerosis and related diseases, as well as those with certain kinds of nerve disorders known as neuropathies.

18 Jan 2011

Health Canada approves Eli Lilly's BYETTA for treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes

Eli Lilly Canada is pleased to announce the Health Canada approval of BYETTATM for the treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes.

18 Jan 2011

Painkillers and heart attack risk

A new study has shown that taking certain commonly used painkillers for long periods or in high doses increases the risk of heart attacks or strokes. The study comes from researchers from Bern University and is published in the British Medical Journal.

16 Jan 2011

First Round Table Meeting on Metabolomics & Diabetes takes place in Vienna

Metabolomic biomarker research is a young research area that carries great hopes for both medicine and the nutritional sciences, particularly for the early detection of genetically determined diseases.

14 Jan 2011

Merck announces changes in vorapaxar clinical studies

Merck today provided the following statement on the changes to the clinical studies for vorapaxar, one of the Company's investigational cardiovascular medicines, following an announcement from the two academic centers leading the studies of vorapaxar.

14 Jan 2011

American Heart Association urges public to reduce salt intake

The American Heart Association today issued a call to action for the public, health professionals, the food industry and the government to intensify efforts to reduce the amount of sodium Americans consume daily.

14 Jan 2011

Patients on dialysis may face risk of death from atrial fibrillation: Study

The abnormal heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation, is increasingly common in patients on dialysis and is linked to a sharp rise in death, in an already at-risk population, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

14 Jan 2011

American Heart Association proposes new metrics to monitor quality of stroke care

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has proposed metrics that healthcare professionals can use to monitor the diagnosis and treatment of patients at stroke centers to help improve the quality of care stroke patients receive.

14 Jan 2011

Medtronic acquires Ardian

Medtronic, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Ardian, a developer of catheter-based therapies to treat hypertension and related conditions.

13 Jan 2011

Video submissions invited for the 2011 Neuro Film Festival competition

People who have loved ones affected by a brain disorder or have been affected by a disorder themselves still have the opportunity to share their story by submitting a short video to the 2011 Neuro Film Festival(SM) competition at http://www.neurofilmfestival.com. The deadline for entries is February 15, 2011.

13 Jan 2011

Genetic information from Guthrie cards may serve as valuable resource to diagnose infant diseases

Van Andel Research Institute researchers have developed a method that can yield more information from archived newborn blood that has implications for a vast array of research, including population health studies and answering questions about diseases in infants and children.

13 Jan 2011

Brain cell destroying genetic mechanism responsible for development of AD

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered that the genetic mechanism which destroys brain cells is responsible for early development of Alzheimer's Disease in people with Down Syndrome and for development of Alzheimer's Disease in general population - providing a potential new target for drugs that could forestall dementia in people with either condition.

13 Jan 2011

BP-lowering medications provide long-term benefit of reducing death risk from cardiovascular disease

In a study published in December 2010, in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association, investigators have shown that early treatment with blood pressure-lowering medications provides a long-term benefit of reducing the risk of death from cardiovascular disease.

13 Jan 2011

NIH awards VistaGen and NuPotential $500,000 grant to advance iPS stem cell technology

VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. and NuPotential, Inc. today announced that the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded to the companies a grant of approximately $500,000 to accelerate development of novel and safer approaches to generate patient-specific induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for regenerative medicine, drug discovery and drug rescue.

13 Jan 2011

Researchers launch estrogen therapy trial to study depression, cardiovascular illness in women

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have launched a new clinical trial to determine if estrogen replacement therapy may help prevent depression and cardiovascular illness in women between the ages of 45 and 55.

13 Jan 2011

Emotional stress can affect motor coordination and other cerebellum-dependent cognitive functions: Study

Research conducted by Iaroslav Savtchouk, a graduate student, and S. June Liu, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has shown that a single exposure to acute stress affected information processing in the cerebellum - the area of the brain responsible for motor control and movement coordination and also involved in learning and memory formation.

13 Jan 2011

UCLA imaging system could help reveal 'miscommunications' in autism, schizophrenia

Some disorders of the brain are obvious - the massive death of brain cells after a stroke, the explosion in the growth of cells that marks a tumor. Other disorders, such as autism, schizophrenia and mental retardation show no physical signs of damage and are believed to be caused by problems in how brain cells communicate with one another.

13 Jan 2011

Study indicates disease's underlying causes in mice, finds compounds that normalize Alzheimer's brain

A Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience reveals underlying causes for the degeneration of synapses in Alzheimer's Disease and identifies promising pharmaceutical solutions for the devastating condition that affects more than 5 million people in the United States.

12 Jan 2011

NSAIDs raise risk of heart disease: Study

A new study published online in the British Medical Journal explores the relative safety of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs), commonly used to treat joint and muscle aches and pain and concludes that NSAIDs significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular events in patients who take them regularly.

12 Jan 2011

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Women's Health Congress to explore mammography controversy

New guideline recommends plasmapheresis usage to treat people with severe relapses in MS, neuropathies

Health Canada approves Eli Lilly's BYETTA for treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes

Painkillers and heart attack risk

First Round Table Meeting on Metabolomics & Diabetes takes place in Vienna

Merck announces changes in vorapaxar clinical studies

American Heart Association urges public to reduce salt intake

Patients on dialysis may face risk of death from atrial fibrillation: Study

American Heart Association proposes new metrics to monitor quality of stroke care

Medtronic acquires Ardian

Video submissions invited for the 2011 Neuro Film Festival competition

Genetic information from Guthrie cards may serve as valuable resource to diagnose infant diseases

Brain cell destroying genetic mechanism responsible for development of AD

BP-lowering medications provide long-term benefit of reducing death risk from cardiovascular disease

NIH awards VistaGen and NuPotential $500,000 grant to advance iPS stem cell technology

Researchers launch estrogen therapy trial to study depression, cardiovascular illness in women

Emotional stress can affect motor coordination and other cerebellum-dependent cognitive functions: Study

UCLA imaging system could help reveal 'miscommunications' in autism, schizophrenia

Study indicates disease's underlying causes in mice, finds compounds that normalize Alzheimer's brain

NSAIDs raise risk of heart disease: Study

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