Archive for November, 2006
Introducing The British Medical Blogs
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Just in time for Christmas
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
A simple image of the earth - but fill it with a coffee or another hot beverage and watch the coastlines disappear! When the mug cools off, the coastlines the earth returns to pre-global warming shorelines.
Hat tip: bookofjoe
From The PharmSide
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Drug eluting stents - more negativity
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Back story here.
Blood clotting is four to five times more likely to occur in patients who have drug-coated heart devices known as stents, compared with the older bare- metal variety, according to a large data analysis by the Cleveland Clinic released Wednesday.
The analysis comes one week before a FDA panel of experts meets to discuss late stent thrombosis, or potentially fatal blood clotting, long after the devices, also known as drug-eluting stents, are implanted.
The Cleveland Clinic analysis of 14 studies with 6,675 patients will likely fuel a growing debate about the safety of drug-coated stents, the tiny wire-mesh devices used to prop open surgically cleared arteries.
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Blood clotting is four to five times more likely to occur in patients who have drug-coated heart devices known as stents, compared with the older bare- metal variety, according to a large data analysis by the Cleveland Clinic released Wednesday.
The analysis comes one week before a FDA panel of experts meets to discuss late stent thrombosis, or potentially fatal blood clotting, long after the devices, also known as drug-eluting stents, are implanted.
The Cleveland Clinic analysis of 14 studies with 6,675 patients will likely fuel a growing debate about the safety of drug-coated stents, the tiny wire-mesh devices used to prop open surgically cleared arteries.
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