Article: Fed: Heart failure patients not given life-saving drugs: Study

Article: Relypsa Initiates Phase 2b Clinical Trial of RLY5016 for the ...
Heart Disease Weekly;  October 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... arrhythmia and sudden death. Heart failure patients are at particular ... prevention of hyperkalemia in heart failure patients. The study is being ... enhancing the use of life-saving drugs for heart failure patients. To date, we have ...

Article: Best Treatments: Managing Heart Failure.(Cover ...
Newsweek;  October 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... an echocardiogram. Heart failure can be caused either ... this out. If you have heart failure due to a weakened left ... most underused life-saving drugs in medicine--only ... percent of patients with heart failure take them. If you ...

Article: Age-related underutilization of angiotensin-converting enzyme ...
Southern Medical Journal;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... inhibitors for all heart failure patients with systolic ... inhibitors in older heart failure patients (9-14 ... underutilization of these life-saving drugs has not been well studied ... 15) the number of heart failure patients in that age ...

Article: Life saving drugs: the elusive magic bullet.
Chemistry and Industry;  September 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Life saving drugs: the elusive magic bullet John Mann Cambridge: Royal Society of ... constituents, digitoxin and digoxin are current drugs for congestive heart failure. Another important current drug relates its history to South American ...

Article: Life-saving drugs carry heart risk.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  November 21, 2002 ;     437 words ... ... Britain may be at risk of death from heart failure brought on by the drugs given by their ... drugs could cause an "epidemic" of heart failure. Statin drugs are taken by one million ... levels of this vital nutrient results in heart failure and death, the new research suggests ...

Article: Mum in fight for life-saving drugs
Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  March 11, 2008 ;     634 words ... ... blood pressure in the arteries in the lungs to elevate, putting pressure on the heart. The condition can often lead to heart failure. It is so rare that only about five children are diagnosed with it in the UK a year. Before Oliver was diagnosed, Mrs ...

Article: Heart failure; The hospitals that missed crucial ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  June 17, 2005 ;     630 words ...Byline: By MARK HOOKHAM HEART attack victims in North Wales failed to get life-saving drugs within crucial government targets, new figures showed yesterday. Just 16% of patients treated at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, were ...