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The Million Hearts program, which led to February being named American Heart Month, and Wear Red Day, established by the American Heart Association to focus attention on women's heart issues, are both intended to reduce the toll of cardiovascular disease.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Jentadueto, a type 2 diabetes treatment that combines two drugs (linagliptin and metformin) in a single pill.

More effective management of rheumatoid arthritis with medication may be contributing to a decline in the need for joint surgery in patients with the condition, Mayo Clinic researchers have found.

Stroke victims are not getting to the hospital any faster than they did in 2005, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's International Stroke Conference, held from Feb. 1 to 3 in New Orleans.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease experience more travel-related illness when visiting industrialized, but not developing, countries than healthy individuals, according to research published in the February issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

For men with low-risk prostate cancer, prostate size is an independent predictor of Gleason score upgrading, according to a study published in the December issue of The Journal of Urology.

Patients with Barrett's esophagus who currently smoke have twice the risk of developing esophageal cancer compared with never smokers, according to a study published in the February issue of Gastroenterology.

Malaria kills more people each year than previously recognized -- nearly 1.2 million people worldwide -- with more than 40 percent of deaths occurring in older children and adults, according to research published in the Feb. 4 issue of The Lancet.

A once daily oral dose of rivaroxaban (Xarelto) significantly lowers the risk of intracranial hemorrhage in patients with atrial fibrillation at moderate to high risk of stroke, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's International Stroke Conference, held from Feb. 1 to 3 in New Orleans.

Most Web sites advertising statins directly to consumers contain poor levels of information relevant to safe use of the medicine and side effects, according to a study published online Feb. 2 in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.

Words can be reconstructed from neural activity in the superior temporal gyrus, according to a study published online Jan. 31 in PLoS Biology.

Liver-like cells produced from an individual's own cells can support the entire life cycle of hepatitis C virus, potentially making it possible to study why people respond differently to the virus, according to a study published online Jan. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Apixaban is more effective than aspirin in reducing the risk of repeat stroke and systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation who are unsuitable for vitamin K antagonists therapy, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's International Stroke Conference, held from Feb. 1 to 3 in New Orleans.

Rates of restenosis and occlusion do not differ between patients who received carotid artery stenting or carotid endarterectomy for the treatment of carotid stenosis, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's International Stroke Conference, held from Feb. 1 to 3 in New Orleans.

Having anemia can triple the risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's International Stroke Conference, held from Feb. 1 to 3 in New Orleans.

Rare variants of the melatonin receptor 1B gene are associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study published online Jan. 29 in Nature Genetics.

Heart failure is associated with loss of gray matter in the brain and worse cognitive function, according to a study published online Jan. 31 in the European Heart Journal.

Local implementation of national suicide recommendations reduces suicide rates, particularly in deprived catchment areas, according to a study published online Feb. 2 in The Lancet.

Two Lyme disease risk foci have been identified in the Northeast and upper Midwest of the United States, according to a study published in the February issue of The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The occasional use of hard drugs in middle age is linked to significantly increased risk of all-cause mortality, according to a study published online Jan. 25 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.