Archive for the ‘Cholesterol’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Merck & Co., Inc. received a Not Approvable action letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Company's New Drug Application (NDA) for MK-0524A (ER niacin/laropiprant) for the treatment of primary hypercholesterolemia or mixed dyslipidemia. "We plan to meet with the FDA and to submit additional information ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Two new studies presented at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting suggest that an all-natural dietary supplement made from citrus may help people with type 2 diabetes lower their blood glucose numbers after a meal and their LDL-cholesterol levels.Mal Evans, DVM, MSc, PhD, KGK Synergize Inc's Scientific Director, said, "Our scientifically ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Two new studies presented at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting suggest that an all-natural dietary supplement made from citrus may help people with type 2 diabetes lower their blood glucose numbers after a meal and their LDL-cholesterol levels. Mal Evans, DVM, MSc, PhD, KGK Synergize Inc.'s ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
eFoodSafety.com (OTCBB: EFSF, http://www.efoodsafety.com), a researcher, developer, and marketer of whole food nutraceutical products, has launched an all-natural supplement, called Cinnechol™ (http://www.cinnechol.com), that offers a complementary and/or alternative solution to traditional cholesterol drugs. Cinnechol is designed to reduce total cholesterol levels, LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and triglycerides without adverse side effects ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Tart cherries - frequently sold dried, frozen or in juice - may have more than just good taste and bright red color going for them, according to new animal research from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center.Rats that received whole tart cherry powder mixed into a high-fat diet didn't gain ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Using the Electronic Health Record to actively engage diabetes patients in their own care results in improved blood sugar and cholesterol levels, better vaccination compliance and increased tobacco cessation rates, according to a new Geisinger study.Geisinger Health System launched an Electronic Health Record-driven care program for its 20,000 diabetes patients ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
An article published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicinefindsthat there is a link between coronary heart disease and levels ofinterleukin-6 (IL-6), a protein triggered by inflammation thatattracts immune system cells to an injury site. John Danesh(University of Cambridge) and colleagues also suggest that new drugsdesigned to fight vascular disease may ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
More people suffer from being overweight and have high blood pressure and metabolic disturbances in East Germany than in West Germany. This is the result of a study with almost 36 000 patients, published in the current edition of the Deutsches ?rzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[12]: 207-13).The so-called ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
At the 23rd Annual European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress, results were presented which added evidence that Levitra® (vardenafil HCI) works very well in men with dyslipidemia.(1) The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in about 400 men showed that Levitra® significantly improved the ability of men with erectile dysfunction (ED) and high ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Trans fats are a cholesterol double whammy. Also known as trans fatty acids, trans fats raise low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") cholesterol and lower high-density lipoprotein (HDL or "good") cholesterol.Experts consider trans fat the worst type of dietary fat. Trans fat contributes to heart disease by promoting low-grade inflammation in ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
A daily dose of caffeine blocks the disruptive effects of high cholesterol that scientists have linked to Alzheimer's disease. A study in the open access publication, Journal of Neuroinflammation revealed that caffeine equivalent to just one cup of coffee a day could protect the blood-brain barrier (BBB) from damage that ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday sent a letter to the CEOs of Merck and Schering-Plough that requested additional information about their decision to wait for more than one year to release the results of a study on the cholesterol medication Vytorin, marketed by a joint ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced yesterday, Monday 31st March, it was stopping the JUPITER clinical trial on its cholesterol-busting drug Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) because early findings showed that the drug reduced deaths and risk of heart problems in patients compared to placebo.A press statement on the company's website said that the ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
People with diabetes have the same high risk for heart attack or stroke or cardiovascular death as people who've already had a heart attack, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association."The increased risk was observed in people at all ages with either type 1 or type 2 ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
A study published in JAMA reports that the drugpioglitazone is more effective at reducing the rate of plaque build-upin the coronary arteries than the drug glimepiride. Both medicationsare designed to treat type 2 diabetes (also known as adult-onsetdiabetes).For patients with diabetes, atherosclerosis - the process in whichplaque sticks to the ...
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