Posts Tagged 'Beyaz'

Report links depression to stroke risk

A CNN report says that depression is a risk factor for stroke, although a relatively minor one.

The report cites research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which suggests that as many as 4 percent of the estimated 795,000 strokes that occur in the United States each year can be attributed to depression.

Lead researcher An Pan, Ph.D., said the depression might add to stroke risk because people with ...

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Office workers at particular risk of blood clots

According to a study from New Zealand, workers who spend long periods of time immobile at their desks could be putting themselves at risk for potentially fatal blood clots.

A BBC report says researchers found that a third of patients hospitalized with deep vein thrombosis were office workers who spent extended periods of time at a computer.

The report says the condition is commonly called “economy class syndrome,” because passengers sitting in ...

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Activist questioned corporate-funded Yaz studies

A former board member of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a nonprofit women’s advocacy group, publicly questioned why industry-funded studies were the only ones that appeared to show no higher risk of blood clots from the Yasmin line of contraceptives, compared to other types of birth control pills on the market.

An entry in the organization’s blog mentions testimony that Pamela Bridgewater presented at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel’s December ...

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Study says infection a risk factor in blood clots

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System are publishing a study this month in the Journal of Circulation indicating that older adults who get infections are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized for a blood clot in their deep veins or lungs.

The study shows that recent exposure to an infection of any kind — including urinary, skin, or respiratory tract infections – is the most common ...

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Op-ed says more accountability needed for drug approvals

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times calls for more public access to the clinical data that government agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration use for making policy about medications.

Authors Peter Doshi and Tom Jefferson write that drug or medical device manufacturers are required only to share their data with regulators, who treat the data as secret, and not with independent researchers or academics.

That ...

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Bayer expecting more lawsuits over Yasmin

Officials with pharmaceutical giant Bayer said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that they expect more lawsuits over the company’s Yasmin line of birth control pills, Bloomberg reports. More than 11,000 lawsuits have already been filed over injuries allegedly caused by the drugs.

Last week, the company announced a settlement for about 500 lawsuits related to the contraceptives, which were the first batch of suits scheduled to go ...

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