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Date Set For Stroke Survivors' Singing Group Concert

The 'Singing in the Rain' Aphasia Chorus are holding their first ever concert on 25 November in Cuckfield, West Sussex.

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Related Topix: Medicine, West Sussex County, England, United Kingdom

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Medical News Today

Merck Announces Completion Of Patient Enrollment In Phase III Trial...

Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Heart Disease Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 22:00 PST Merck announced the completion of patient enrollment in the TRA 2P-TIMI 50 clinical trial, a Phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multinational study of SCH 530348, the company's ...

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicine, Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Health, Food and Drug Administration

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Local Tech Wire

Pozen enrolling for Phase III study of heart drug

Pozen Inc. said Friday that it has begun enrolling 1,000 patients across the country for two Phase III studies for its experimental drug for use in the secondary prevention of heart attacks and strokes in patients at risk for associated gastric ulcers.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Pozen, Healthcare Industry, Health

Health Scout

Study: Migraine Raises Risk of Stroke

Migraine headaches more than double the chances of the most common kind of stroke, which occurs when blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off by a blood clot or plaque buildup.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Migraine, Migraine Headache, Headache, Johns Hopkins University

Thu Nov 19, 2009

OfficialWire

FDA: Don't Use Plavix Along With Prilosec

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning patients against using the stomach acid reducer Prilosec with the anti-clotting drug Plavix.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Food and Drug Administration, Prilosec, Omeprazole (generic), Health

WLNS-TV Lansing

Heart health landing page

An aspirin a day: is it right for you? Some people may be able to take aspirin every day to lower heart attack or stroke risks.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Medication

Bioscience Technology

Clopidogrel (marketed as Plavix) and Omeprazole (marketed as Prilosec) - Drug Interaction

FDA notified healthcare professionals of new safety information concerning an interaction between clopidogrel , an anti-clotting medication, and omeprazole , a proton pump inhibitor used to reduce stomach acid.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Medication, Prilosec, Omeprazole (generic), Health, Drug Testing

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Drug Store News

FDA: Anti-clotting drugs, PPIs may adversely affect each other

ROCKVILLE,A Md. Patients taking an anti-clotting drug should avoid the use of a drug for gastroesophageal reflux disease, the Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Medication, Prilosec, Omeprazole (generic)

HealthDay

Newer Blood Thinners May Outperform Old Standbys

After years of little progress, three new trials suggest that the latest generation of blood thinners may outperform the old standbys warfarin and clopidogrel .

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Related Topix: Circulation, Medicine, Health, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Medication, Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Sweden, World News

EDGEonthenet.com Health/Fitness Feed

Small firms scrapping, scaling back health plans

Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack and stroke.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Medication, Health, Kiss, Pop/Rock

PhysOrg Weblog

Investigational neurostimulation device aims to reduce stroke damage

Stroke researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute in Houston are the only ones in Texas to offer a novel device that might extend the acute stroke treatment window from three hours to 24.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Tue Nov 17, 2009

WNOL-TV New Orleans

FDA warns that heartburn drug Prilosec can block benefits of blood thinner Plavix

Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular heartburn medication can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack and stroke.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Medication, Heartburn, Health, Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, Bristol Myers Squibb, Healthcare Industry

EurekAlert!

Drug therapy more cost-effective than angioplasty for diabetic patients with heart disease

Many patients with diabetes should forego angioplasties for heart disease and just take medicine instead, according to a new National Institutes of Health study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Mark Hlatky, MD.

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Related Topix: Circulation, Medicine, Health, Diabetes

Mon Nov 16, 2009

MedlinePlus

AstraZeneca Drug Tops Plavix in Sickest Patients

Heart attack patients in need of emergency procedures were less likely to suffer further serious cardiovascular events, including death, when given AstraZeneca's experimental Brilinta blood clot preventer than those who used Plavix, according to a study presented on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Medication, Health, Healthcare Law, Law

Medical News

Migraine headaches linked with increased risk of common kind of stroke

Pooling results from 21 studies, involving 622,381 men and women, researchers at Johns Hopkins have affirmed that migraine headaches are associated with more than twofold higher chances of the most common kind of stroke: those occurring when blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off by the buildup of plaque or a blood clot.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Headache, Migraine Headache, Migraine, Harvard University

Newswise

New Mechanism Identified for Beneficial Effects of Aspirin in Cardiovascular Disease

On Sunday, November 15, 2009, Florida Atlantic University researcher Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., the first Sir Richard Doll Research Professor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science will present at the American Heart Associationa s Annual Scientific Sessions meeting in Orlando, FL, the first data in humans to show that all doses of ...

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Related Topix: Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Medication, Florida Atlantic University, Circulation, Health, Orlando, FL

Sun Nov 15, 2009

India eNews

Exercise lowers stroke risk

Climbing stairs daily helps to lower the risk of suffering a stroke, according to the German Stroke Foundation.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Earth Times

American Heart Association Late-Breaking Clinical Trial Report: New...

Acutely ill heart attack patients who received both aspirin and a new reversible oral anti-platelet medication had fewer cardiac events than patients on aspirin and the most commonly used, irreversible anti-platelet drug, researchers reported in a late-breaking clinical trial presentation at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Medication, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Health, France, World News,

Fri Nov 13, 2009

IcWales

Cynon Valley: Better service for stroke survivors

STROKE patients are receiving better and more efficient care from hospitals in Rhondda Cynon Taff.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicine, Rhondda Cynon Taff County, Wales, United Kingdom

Wed Nov 11, 2009

The News

Ending Aspirin Therapy may triple stroke risk

Thursday, November 12, 2009 When stroke survivors who are prescribed daily aspirin stop taking the drug, they may triple their risk of a having another stroke within days, research shows.

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Related Topix: Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Medicine, Health, Medication

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