- SUNDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — A new study offers a possible
alternative to heart patients and diabetics who need to keep their blood
pressure under control but who cannot tolerate the standard treatment of
ACE inhibitors.

Reporting at the European Society of Cardiology in Munich on Sunday,
Canadian researchers said they found that the angiogenesis-receptor
blocker (ARB) known [...]

- SUNDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — Daily supplements of omega-3
polyunsaturated fatty acids — the kind found in fish oil — reduced
deaths and hospitalizations of people with heart failure, an Italian study
found.

But a cholesterol-lowering statin drug had no beneficial effect in a
parallel heart failure trial.

“This confirms what we've been seeing for a couple of [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by
editors of HealthDay:

Alcohol to Blame for 12% of Native Americans'
Deaths: Report

An estimated 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska
Natives are due to alcohol, a figure that's more than three times higher
than for the general population.

That's the conclusion of [...]

- SUNDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — A new study has found a
“master switch” in the brain of mice that helps control both body weight
and fertility.

It is well known that body weight and fertility are related to each
other: Women who are too thin, for example, often have trouble getting
pregnant. Now, researchers at the Salk [...]

Assorted medicines. Researchers have broken the code of an enzyme that plays a key role in the growth of most cancers, opening a path that potentially leads to a new class of anti-cancer drugs, according to a study released Sunday.(AFP/File/Jean-Pierre Muller)

PARIS (AFP) -
Researchers have broken the code of an enzyme that plays a key role [...]

This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Teams of doctors on Sunday said they had uncovered genetic flaws that separately boost the risk of a common form of leukaemia and bowel disease in children and may also influence obesity and fertility.(AFP/HO/File)

PARIS (AFP) -
Teams of doctors on Sunday said they had uncovered genetic flaws that [...]

LYON (AFP) - La vaccination contre la fièvre catarrhale ovine (FCO), largement répandue mais ralentie par des problèmes de fabrication des vaccins, devrait devenir obligatoire “à l’automne ou d’ici le tout début de l’année 2009″, a fait savoir le ministère de l’Agriculture dimanche.
La vaccination sera rendue obligatoire “dès que les conditions techniques permettant une vaccination [...]

MUNICH, Germany - Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research released Sunday.
Chronic heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart becomes enlarged and cannot pump blood efficiently around the body.
With few effective options for heart failure patients, [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Une rupture d’approvisionnement en technétium, un isotope utilisé pour réaliser des scintigraphies, va contraindre les services hospitaliers de médecine nucléaire en France à réorganiser certains examens la semaine prochaine, a-t-on appris dimanche auprès du ministère de la Santé.
“Cela ne concerne pas les examens vitaux, il n’y a aucune inquiétude à avoir pour [...]

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday.
The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially deadly disease, against a Kansas meat packer that wants to test all its animals.
Larger meat packers opposed [...]