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...other well-established risk factors, is an important marker of heart disease. But while it was clear that inflammation was a key player in disease, there was no real data to prove that reducing inflammation, as measured by lower levels of the CRP marker in the blood, could prevent future cardiovascular disease in otherwise healthy patients...
...results of the study not only shift the state of the evidence but also herald new guidelines for the prevention of heart disease and redefine the traditional at-risk population. Many people who, for example, lack outward signs of heart disease may have high CRP levels, which could put them at silent risk for heart attack or stroke. According to the study, published also in the New England Journal of Medicine, at least 250,000 heart attacks, or about 20% of the total heart attacks suffered per year in the U.S., may be prevented by controlling inflammation. Indeed, nearly half...
...cautionary tale, an example of how the world failed to react at a time when it could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Chastened by that experience, every time a humanitarian crisis erupts in Africa, a kind of collective cry goes up urging action - any action - to prevent a comparable atrocity from happening again. The current crisis and the fighting around it are apt to push more buttons than most. First, it is evocative. The Congolese town of Goma that is the center of the crisis was also where the world first had its clearest glimpse of the Rwanda...
...provinces of North and South Kivu this summer and reported back that Hutu armed groups as well as members of the country's armed forces were profiting from the trade in cassiterite, or iron ore. The group wants to exert more pressure on Western governments and companies to prevent profits from ending up in the pockets of combatants. The most important mineral being extracted from the region is tin ore but gold and a substance known as coltan, which is a key mineral used in the making of cell phones, are also being exported from conflict areas...
According to Olsen, anti-VEGF treatments already approved by the Food and Drug Administration for other conditions, including other cancers, could be used to prevent or limit the development of the infantile hemangioma tumor tissue...