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  • Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000: Antidepressant Escitalopram Helps Heart Problem Caused By Stress - Health News from Medical News Today
    Researchers at Duke Medicine have revealed that a commonly prescribed antidepressant - escitalopram (Lexapro) - could be used to treat a heart condition caused by stress among people suffering from stable coronary heart disease. The findings of the study, published in the May 22/29, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that people with stable coronary heart disease and mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia (MSIMI) taking escitalopram - a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) used to treat depression and anxiety - experienced lower rates of MSIMI...
  • Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000: New Drug May Decrease Asthma Attacks By 87% - Health News from Medical News Today
    A novel, lab-made molecule was able to stick to certain inflammatory proteins and decrease and minimize acute breathing issues among people with moderate-to-severe asthma, according to new research by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and were also presented in Philadelphia at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society. Nearly 24.6 million Americans suffer from asthma, and 10 to 20% of them do not have good control of their symptoms even when taking medications...
  • Wed, 22 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000: Radioactive Bacteria Dramatically Reduce Spread Of Pancreatic Cancer In Mice - Health News from Medical News Today
    Using bacteria to ferry radioisotopes commonly used in cancer therapy directly into pancreatic cancer cells in mice, researchers in the US were able dramatically to reduce the number of secondary tumors that arise when the cancer spreads to other parts of the body (metastases). Claudia Gravekamp and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, write about their successful experiment in a paper that was published this week in the print issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
  • Wed, 22 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000: Vitamin C Can Kill Drug-Resistant TB Bacteria - Health News from Medical News Today
    Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture, according to a new, surprising discovery by experts at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The research, published in Nature Communications, indicates that adding vitamin C to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy. The finding calls attention to a novel area for drug design. TB results from infection with the bacterium M. tuberculosis. About 8.7 million people were affected by TB in 2011, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), while approximately 1...
  • Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000: Life Expectancy Gap Widens Between Those With Mental Illness And General Population - Health News from Medical News Today
    But majority of deaths are due to physical conditions, not suicide The gap between life expectancy in patients with a mental illness and the general population has widened since 1985 and efforts to reduce this gap should focus on improving physical health, suggest researchers in a paper published today on bmj.com...