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

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.