Boehringer Ingelheim’s Pradaxa Will Garner Blockbuster Sales of $1.3 Billion by 2018 in the Atrial Fibrillation Drug Market

Positive Results From the RE-LY Clinical Trial Will Help Drive Pradaxa's Uptake, According to New Findings from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa will become one of the leading stroke prevention therapies in the atrial fibrillation drug market, garnering blockbuster sales of $1.3 billion by 2018 in the United...

Genetically-modified mice reveal another mechanism contributing to heart failure

Scientists at the Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario, working in collaboration with researchers in Brazil, have used a unique genetically-modified mouse line to reveal a previously unidentified mechanism contributing to heart failure. The study, led by Marco Prado, Robert Gros and Vania Prado of London, Canada and Silvia Guatimosim of Brazil, shows how the decreased release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, a chemical messenger which slows cardiac activity,...

Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes, Chronic Pain and Depression Share a Major Pathology Factor

For humans, sunlight and vitamin D is critically important for the development, growth, and maintenance of a healthy body, from birth until death. "Humans make thousands of units of vitamin D within minutes of whole body exposure to sunlight. From what we know of nature, it is unlikely such a system evolved by chance," states Dr. John Cannell, Executive Director, Vitamin D Council. According to the Vitamin D Council, current research has implicated sunlight and vitamin D deficiency as a major...

Animal experiments show old antidepressant may reverse heart failure

A team of Johns Hopkins and other researchers have found in animal experiments that an antidepressant developed over 40 years ago can blunt and even reverse the muscle enlargement and weakened pumping function associated with heart...

Researchers revisit pulmonary arterial hypertension survival

Setting out to determine the survival of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center and their colleagues also discovered that an equation used for more than 20 years to predict survival is outdated.read...

Heart attacks peak during winter months, finds research

Research has found that heart attacks peak during the winter months, and the prevailing hypothesis has been that cold temperatures stress the heart. But in 2004, researchers analyzed 12 years of Los Angeles County death certificates and found that heart attack deaths also rise in the balmy Los Angeles...