The Times of India recently published advice for avoiding blood clots. The story notes that a clot can be deadly if it travels through the veins and reaches the lungs, heart or brain.
It also notes that deep vein thrombosis — or blood clots in the large veins of the legs — mostly affect individuals with sedentary lifestyles, but can happen to anyone with an injury, heart problems or varicose veins.
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A new study shows a likely link between chronic stress and stroke risk, ABC News reports.
The report cites a study, published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, in which Spanish researchers evaluated 450 people. They found strokes were more common among those with stressful lives and high-strung personalities, even after controlling for risk factors like smoking and diabetes.
A stroke occurs when a blood vessel in the brain becomes ...
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Researchers at the University of Utah have received a $16 million grant from the National Institute of Health to study blood clots and their tendency to affect people with diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a story in the Deseret News.
According to the story, blood clots represent a major public health threat in the United States. The U.S. Surgeon General issued a call to action on the issue in ...
continue reading...According to a report in ScienceDaily, a hormone skin gel is showing promise as a form of male birth control.
At The Endocrine Society’s 94th Annual Meeting in Houston, scientists unveiled preliminary research indicating that an application of both testosterone and a synthetic progestin hormone called Nestorone to the skin significantly lowered the sperm counts in men tested.
The report quotes principal investigator Christine Wang, MD, professor at Los Angeles Biomedical Research ...
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The current issue of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ QuarterWatch report lists Yaz/Yasmin birth control pills as the drug with the second-highest number of adverse events reported in connection with lawsuits in 2011.
Quarterwatch says 8,354 Yaz/Yasmin-related cases were reported in 2011. That puts the contraceptive second only to anti-nausea drug Metoclopramide, which was the subject of 11,450 such reports.
The report says Yaz ...
continue reading...A drug developed as a cancer treatment proved to be an effective form of birth control for male mice, according to a Bloomberg report.
Scientists don’t intend to test that particular compound, called JQ1, in humans. But they hope their findings may eventually point the way toward male birth control.
The report quotes James Bradner, the senior author on the study and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, as saying: “These ...
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