Takeda diabetes drug slashes risk of second stroke
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Patients with type 2 diabetes who   have already suffered a first stroke have 47 percent less risk   of having a second one if they take Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.   Ltd's drug Actos, researchers said on Sunday.
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Methotrexate, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, may also reduce the risk of atherosclerosis and circulatory diseases affecting the heart and brain, investigators have found.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Lipitor cholesterol reducer, the world&#39;s top-selling drug, cut heart attacks and strokes by more than a third for diabetics who didn&#39;t start out with high levels of so-called bad cholesterol, the British medical ...
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Swedish researchers say men who eat fish more than twice a week may have an increased risk of stroke.
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NEW YORK  - A drug called picotamide  appears to be a more effective blood-thinner than aspirin for  people with diabetes, according to an Italian study.
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Taking tamoxifen to treat breast cancer won&#39;t increase your risk of stroke. However, a report on that finding, which appears in the Oct. 20 issue of the
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A newer drug appeared to delay the progression of the most common form of diabetes a little longer than two older medications but also raised the risk of heart problems, weight gain and fractures, a large study has found.
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Transient ischemic attacks (TIA), short episodes of decreased blood flow to the brain, carry a "not so benign" prognosis, according to a new report in the journal Stroke.
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BusinessWeek Online - The news last week that GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s  popular diabetes drug Avandia may increase the risk of heart attacks is now causing a rift among doctors by specialty, leading to charges by each side that the other is endangering patients. Endocrinologists, who treat diabetics, tend to regard the data, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, with skepticism, pointing to weaknesses in the study, particularly when compared to more rigorous clinical trials. Cardiologists and drug safety experts, foremost among them study author Dr. ...
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NEW YORK  - New findings from a large study  suggest that drinking up to two alcoholic beverages a day does  not significantly increase the risk of stroke.
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Researchers said the increased risk of stroke was due to the reduced blood flow to the brain which occurred during a migraine. Past research had shown that pill-users with a history of migraine have twice
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Stroke survivors who stop taking prescribed daily aspirin triple the risk of another stroke within the month, research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Discontinuing statin treatment after a stroke is associated with an increased risk of death or dependency after 90 days, according to a study in the medical journal Neurology.
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Older, cheaper diabetes drugs are as safe and effective as newer ones, concludes an analysis that is good news for diabetics and may further hurt sales of Avandia, a blockbuster pill recently tied to heart problems.
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The government's own preliminary evaluation of the diabetes pill Avandia confirms the heart risks reported in a study earlier this week and suggests that as many as 60,000 to 100,000 heart attacks might be linked to its use since it came on the market eight years ago, a leading member of Congress...
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It's a tiny vacuum cleaner for the brain: A new treatment for stroke victims promises to suction out clogged arteries in hopes of stopping the brain attack before it does permanent harm
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CHICAGO -- The widely used diabetes pill Actos appears to lower a patient's chances of death, heart attack or stroke, unlike its chief competitor, Avandia, a new analysis shows.