In England, Scotland and Wales, patients with angina, valvular heart disease, a heart murmur or heart failure do not have to tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and can continue to drive a car a month after an episode as long as their doctor says they are fit to.
Doctors may not recommend them for people with liver disease or congestive heart failure or for those taking certain medications.
In one, researchers followed 4, 493 Medicare patients with either terminal cancer or congestive heart failure.
After two and a-half years, the people in the exercise group were slightly less likely to be hospitalized for any cause or for heart failure.
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Within the Medicare program, 10 million of the current 44 million beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, such as diabetes or congestive heart failure, and these 10 million cost the program 68% of the budgeted dollars.
Previous studies have suggested that fish oil capsules could lower heart risks in people with heart failure or who have already suffered a heart attack.
But there are no parallel laws that compel diabetics or people in heart failure who prefer using natural herbs to take their medications.
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Under ObamaCare, the government has begun imposing financial penalties on hospitals deemed to be readmitting too many Medicare patients within 30 days for pneumonia, heart failure, or myocardial infarct (heart attack).
Then, in November 2008, another study of nearly 15, 000 participants indicated that taking vitamins C or E had no impact on the incidence of heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure or angina.
There was, however, no significant reduction in the proportion of people who had a heart attack or kidney failure subsequently.
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However, statin pre-treatment had no influence on the risk of dying, stroke, heart attack or kidney failure around the time of the operation.
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It's important to note, however, that Kadcyla is not the same as Herceptin and could cause serious side effects including liver problems and heart problems such as congestive heart failure or even death.
Tight budgets are leading more states to turn to managed care, and Amerigroup is ready with physicians, nurses, nutritionists and active outreach which is especially for pregnant women and young mothers and people with chronic diseases like congestive heart failure or diabetes.
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But those taking Avandia were more likely to have strokes, develop heart failure, or die.
Dronedarone should not be used in patients with permanent AF, heart failure, or left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
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Abbott shares were down 3.9% in morning trading on mixed results for the heart-failure drug, levosimendan or Simdax, and another drug, Tricor, which was aimed at further reducing heart problems in diabetics on top of conventional therapy.
Abbott (nyse: ABT - news - people ) shares were down 3.9% in morning trading on mixed results for the heart-failure drug, levosimendan or Simdax, and another drug, Tricor, which was aimed at further reducing heart problems in diabetics on top of conventional therapy.
But other medicines do, particularly when there is a new entrant being sold by a drug company that is better or, as has happened in heart failure, when evidence about medicines has emerged after they have gone off patent.
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It came up with tests, to be used primarily in hospital emergency rooms, that determine within 15 minutes if a patient has had a heart attack, has congestive heart failure, bacterial or parasitic infection, or has used illicit drugs.
They are frail, often suffer from multiple chronic diseases (such as heart failure, dementia, or diabetes), and are impoverished.
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"Once you are in your 70s, 80s or 90s, or if you have chronic disease like heart failure, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic lung and kidney disease, a larger body size gives you longevity, " he said.
In our view, the key question now is, are these heart failure cases with tofacitinib drug-related or not?
The article presents a study that compares different ways of using water pills, or diuretics, for the treatment of patients hospitalized with heart failure.
At admission, women were older (74.2 percent of women were older than 75 years, compared with 61.4 percent of men) and had a higher CHADS2 (congestive heart failure, hypertension, age 75 years or older, diabetes mellitus, prior stroke or transient ischemic attack) score than men.
Or a wireless scale can notify a nurse when a congestive heart failure patient gains weight indicating dangerous fluid retention.
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It warns they cause "intolerable pain" and may exacerbate the risk of heart failure in people under the influence of drugs or with some health problems.
And he doesn't dwell on what the episode might mean to U.S. residents on the donor-organ waiting list or to foreigners applying for legal immigration who might have congestive heart failure and dream of treatment in America.
If a person receives too much or too little fluid this can lead to problems such as fluid in the lungs, dangerously raised or lowered levels of potassium, sodium or nutrients such as glucose, and in some cases, heart failure.
Lee and Yun theorize that anti-inflammatory drugs counteract the body's self-destructive response to heart failure by decreasing the body's fight-or-flight response.
Conversely, several heart-failure medicines are now in use to treat altitude sickness or help with acclimatization, researchers say.
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