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Vitamin Supplementation - The 5 Basic Truths

November 16th, 2008

Truth #1: Price
Don’t ever select a vitamin based on price. There is a reason in a significant number of cases why one vitamin is cheaper than the other. When you decide on what is an acceptable quality, then compare price for that same quality of vitamins so you are comparing oranges with oranges and apples with apples. Watch out for companies with well recognized names who have purchasing power. Read t…

Whole Food Vitamin Supplements: What You Must Know

November 13th, 2008

If quality and natural matters to you, then make sure the source of your vitamins is whole foods. Is your supplement a synthetic (made up in lab) vitamin? If it is a whole food vitamin then the company will usually be proud to advertise as such and list the source of the vitamin. Here are the critical points you should know about whole food vitamins.
Don’t ever select a vitami…

Healthy Years - Warfarin better than aspirin in preventing strokes in elderly

November 9th, 2008

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Nursing - Herbal products recalled; health risks cited

November 4th, 2008

SPES and PC SPES Recalled
BotanicLab, an herbal product company based in Brea, California, has recalled two of its leading products, SPES and PC SPES, after the California Department of Public Health (CDHS) found the products contaminated with pharmaceutical drugs. PC SPES was found to be contaminated with a form of the anti-coagulant medication coumadin (Warfarin), while SPES was contaminated with th…

Atrial Fibrillation Information

November 2nd, 2008

Atrial fibrillation describes an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm. Atrial fibrillation is a disorder found in about 2.2 million Americans. Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia; risk increases with age, with 8% of people over 80 having AF. During atrial fibrillation, the heart’s two small upper chambers (the atria) quiver instead of beating effectively. Atrial fibrillation is often caused by changes in your heart that occur as a result of heart disease or high …

Heart Advisor - Genes provide key to dosing formulas for blood thinner

October 29th, 2008

Getting the right dose of the common stroke-prevention blood thinner warfarin (Coumadin) should become easier thanks to researchers who developed dosing formulas based on variations in two key genes, VKORC1 and …

HealthDay - New Anti-Clotting Pill Works Well in Trials

October 26th, 2008

A new anti-clotting drug that could be one of the long-sought alternatives to commonly used blood thinners has performed well in hip and knee replacement patients, physicians report.
The drug, rivaroxaban, was more effective at reducing potentially fatal blood clots than heparin, with no increas…

Medical Laboratory Observer - Hitting the target with antithrombotic therapy

October 25th, 2008

Every day, millions of women take a blood thinner called warfarin (Coumadin) to reduce their risk of stroke. It’s commonly prescribed for people with atrial fibrillation (AF), an abnormal heart rhythm that causes the upper chambers of the heart (atria) to quiver ineffectively rather than contract normally, allowing blood to pool and potentially form clots. Although warfarin can cut the risk of stroke by more than 60 percent, it can also increase the chance of hem…

HealthDay - Finding May Allow Some Women to Stop Blood Thinners

October 23rd, 2008

A new study identifies some women — but not men — who might be able to stop taking blood-thinning medication for the clotting condition called venous thromboembolism.
Current guidelines call for indefinite use of a clot-preventing drug, most often warfarin (Coumadin), for …

Keystone Therapeutics, Inc. Selected to Provide DoseResponse

October 19th, 2008

Keystone Therapeutics, Inc. has signed an agreement with The Cleveland Clinic Health System of Cleveland, Ohio to provide their community hospital-based coumadin clinics with DoseResponse anticoagulatio…