News tagged with veins
Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids'
(Medical Xpress)—The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn has led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise recovery, and could help explain ...
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Aug 30, 2012 |
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How a protein meal tells your brain you are full
Feeling full involves more than just the uncomfortable sensation that your waistband is getting tight. Investigators reporting online on July 5th in the Cell Press journal Cell have now mapped out the signal ...
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Jul 05, 2012 |
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New research finds statins don't reduce skin cancer risk
(Medical Xpress) -- Murmurings over the past couple of years suggesting that certain statins might reduce the risk for people developing skin cancer, have proven to be unfounded. New research by a team working out of the ...
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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Team finds a new way to inhibit blood clotting and inflammation
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists have identified a group of small molecules that interfere with the activity of a compound that initiates multiple steps in blood clotting, including those that lead to the obstruction of veins ...
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Nov 06, 2012 |
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New blood thinner may help prevent leg clots, study finds
(HealthDay)—The new anti-clotting drug apixaban (Eliquis) appears to help prevent potentially fatal blood clots in patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a new Italian study finds.
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Dec 10, 2012 |
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Study shows 'mind-blowing sex' is a reality
(Medical Xpress) -- The term mind-blowing has been used to describe great sexual encounters for many generations, but for one 54-year-old woman, sex with her husband really was mind-blowing.
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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New risk score spots patients at high risk of serious blood clots
A new risk prediction tool can identify patients at high risk of serious blood clots (known as venous thromboembolism) who might need preventative treatment, says a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
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Aug 17, 2011 |
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Bristol-Pfizer anticlot drug gets key EU approval
European regulators have approved a crucial new anticlotting drug, Eliquis, for preventing strokes and dangerous clots in the circulatory system.
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Nov 20, 2012 |
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Smoking affects heart surgery outcome even a year after quitting
Smoking cessation even a year prior to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery does not fully normalize the changes smoking has made to the saphenous (leg) veins used for the surgery and may lead to later graft failure, ...
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Jan 02, 2013 |
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Medical myth? Crossing your legs is bad for your health
Almost everyone crosses their legs, whether it's conscious or unconscious, for custom, for comfort, for effect, to stop your legs splaying, to take pressure off a foot, or for no reason at all. But is it ...
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Apr 01, 2013 |
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Blood thinner may protect cancer patients from potentially fatal clots
A new type of anti-clotting drug called semuloparin has been found to reduce the development of potentially fatal blood clots in the veins that often occur in cancer patients, doctors at Duke Cancer Institute and elsewhere ...
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Jun 07, 2011 |
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Joint replacement surgery increases risk of blood clot formation in certain patients
When tennis star Serena Williams underwent emergency treatment for a pulmonary embolism earlier this year, the world's attention was drawn to this often fatal medical condition which, although surprisingly not uncommon, is ...
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Jul 27, 2011 |
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Need a C-section? Protection from blood clot urged
(AP) -- New advice for pregnant women: If you're getting a C-section, special inflating boots strapped on your legs may lower the risk of a blood clot.
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Aug 29, 2011 |
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Scientists discover the proteins that control development of varicose veins
A new discovery published in the October 2011 print issue of The FASEB Journal explains for the first time what kicks off the process that causes varicose veins. In the article, researchers from Germany describe a single ...
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Sep 29, 2011 |
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Chance finding reveals new control on blood vessels in developing brain
(Medical Xpress)—Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse.
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Jan 24, 2013 |
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Vein
In the circulatory system, veins (from the Latin vena) are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are the pulmonary and umbilical veins, both of which carry oxygenated blood. They differ from arteries in structure and function; for example, arteries are more muscular than veins and they carry blood away from the heart.
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