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Healthy eating stalls elderly's cognitive decline
Older people who eat healthily may be less likely to experience declines in thinking and memory over time, according to an international study.
Phase-3 anticoagulation trial terminated
A novel therapy that allowed blood-clotting to be turned off and on in a more controlled way showed similar efficacy to established anticoagulants in angioplasty patients, without improvement in major bleeding, according to data from a Phase-3 trial terminated due to an excess of severe allergic reactions.
Anti-platelet medication with aspirin
Anti-platelet medication ticagrelor, added to aspirin for one year in patients after their heart attack, reduces risk of cardiovascular death, another heart attack, or stroke by 15%.
Alternative to statins 'dramatically' cuts cholesterol
A Brigham and Women's Hospital study claims a drug called evolocumab could be much more effective than statins. It reduced cholesterol levels so dramatically that patients' risk of cardiovascular events - such as heart attack and stroke - fell by more than half.
Moderate coffee drinking benefits arteries
A South Korean meta-analysis found that people consuming three to five cups of coffee a day had the least risk of coronary calcium in their arteries.
NSAIDs link with cardiovascular events
In patients receiving antithrombotic therapy after a heart attack, the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was associated with an increased risk of bleeding, heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death, even in short-term treatment, according to a large Danish study.
WISH-list of how to do health innovations
Research looking at eight case studies of how different countries successfully implemented health innovations was released at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH). The studies were from Argentina, England, Nepal, Singapore, Sweden, the United States and Zambia.
Nano 'drones' to target atherosclerosis
In mouse models, Harvard Medical School scientists have developed nanomedicines that can deliver drug packets directly to lesions in diseased arteries, acting like nano-sized 'drones' to target atherosclerosis, a major risk factor for deaths caused by heart attack or stroke. Fondaparinux reduced bleeding and death
The anticoagulant fondaparinux was associated with reduced major bleeding events and improved survival compared to heparin in a large randomised Swedish clinical trial.
Health dangers of smoking far worse than thought
A massive study, drawing on the data of nearly a million people over 10 years, adds at least five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco in the US. Previously, smoking was already blamed for nearly half a million US deaths from 21 diseases, including 12 types of cancer.
* Smokers were about twice as likely to die from infections, kidney disease, respiratory ailments not previously linked to tobacco, and hypertensive heart disease.
* Smokers were six times more likely to die from a rare illness caused by insufficient blood flow to the intestines.
Other recent research:
* A major British-Canadian study shows new evidence that long-term smoking could cause thinning of the brain's cortex.
* Smoking impairs the response to drugs used to treat inflammatory arthritis affecting the lower back, found a Swiss study.
* A University of California study found that children exposed to tobacco smoke while in the womb are predisposed to developing diabetes as adults.
Summary drawn from New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, Science Daily, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, and the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease