MONDAY, March 30 — Physical fitness programs in schools improve many aspects of children’s health, but they don’t appear to combat obesity, a new study in the Canadian medical publication CMAJ shows.
Improvements in blood pressure, muscle mass,…
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MONDAY, March 30 — In people with severe angina, injecting their own stem cells into the heart muscle appears to reduce pain and improve their ability to exercise, say U.S. researchers.
“The results from this study provide the first evidence that…
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MONDAY, March 30 — The Novartis drug Afinitor (everolimus) has been approved to treat advanced kidney cancer in people whose cancer has progressed despite treatment with other therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday.
The most…
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MONDAY, March 30 — Even babies born near their due date have an increased risk of developmental delays when they reach kindergarten, new research shows.
Once thought to have little to no risk of long-term problems, healthy babies born between 34…
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MONDAY, March 30 — Patients receiving optimal drug therapy after suffering a heart attack do not gain any additional benefit from taking supplemental omega-3 fatty acids, a new study finds.
In a study of almost 4,000 people who suffered heart…
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MONDAY, March 30 — Create a single pill that contains a statin, three blood pressure drugs and aspirin, and you have an inexpensive medication that can reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems.
Or so researchers…
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MONDAY, March 30 — Japanese herbal medicines may help people with gastrointestinal disorders — such as constipation and indigestion — that don’t respond to conventional treatments, a new study suggests.
Many drugs used for these gastrointestinal…
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MONDAY, March 30 — Giving statins just before artery-opening angioplasty procedures reduces the incidence of heart attacks and other problems, even for people who already have been taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs, Italian trials show.
It’s…
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MONDAY, March 30 — In addition to dramatically reducing the incidence of heart attacks and stroke, the cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor appears to have another important benefit: reducing the rate of blood clots in the veins, new research has…
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MONDAY, March 30 — Using a catheter-based technique to deactivate nerves in the kidneys — a process called renal denervation — could help people with tough-to-treat high blood pressure, a new study suggests.
About 30 percent to 40 percent of the…
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