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Pfizer Introduces New Treatment And Support Plan For Patients With Overactive Bladder
Pfizer Inc announced today that Toviaz™ (fesoterodine fumarate) extended release tablets and the YourWay™ plan (http://www.ToviazYourWay.com), a comprehensive, customizable support plan for overactive bladder patients, are available in the United States. Toviaz is a once-daily prescription treatment for patients with symptoms of overactive bladder, which include frequent and sudden urges to urinate and wetting accidents. Toviaz works by helping to calm the bladder muscle that causes frequent, sudden urges to urinate.

Lap-Band Weight-Loss Surgery Can Reverse Metabolic Syndrome In Obese Teens
A new study of obese adolescents has shown that laparoscopic gastric banding surgery -- the "Lap-Band" procedure -- not only helps them achieve significant weight loss but can also improve and even reverse metabolic syndrome, reducing their risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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Medtronic Demonstrates Positive Results On First Pacemaker Designed For Use With MRI
New data announced at Heart Rhythm 2009, the annual congress of the Heart Rhythm Society, demonstrate that patients implanted with the investigational EnRhythm MRI™ SureScan™ pacing system experienced no complications related to the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Sponsored by Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), the study confirms that the pacing system can help cardiac device patients benefit from the use of MRI, a critical imaging technique commonly used in disease diagnosis. Currently, due to safety considerations, there are no implantable pacemakers or defibrillators approved for use with MRI in the United States. Commercially released in Europe last fall, the EnRhythm MRI SureScan system is the world"s first and only pacing system designed and approved for use with MRI.
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Police Search Offices Of Michael Jackson's Doctor For Evidence Of Manslaughter

Police detectives searched the offices of one of Michael Jackson"s doctors for evidence of manslaughter on Wednesday, according to various US media reports. Dr Conrad Murray, who is 51, and was at Jackson"s Los Angeles home when the pop star died on 25 June, has offices in Houston, Texas. In a written statement issued by Murray"s laywer Ed Chernoff on Wednesday and reported by CNN, Houston police officers, accompanied by detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department, and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents presented a search warrant that "authorized law enforcement to search for and seize items, including documents, they believed constituted evidence of the offense of manslaughter". Chernoff said the search finished at about 12.30 pm and the officers took a copy of a computer hard drive and 21 documents. Tammy Kidd, a spokeswoman at Chernoff"s office told CNN that the raid took them by surprise. They had not expected it because "we"ve had open lines of communication this whole time," she said. Gus Villanueva, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, told the press that the search warrant "services part of the ongoing investigation into the death of Michael Jackson". According to his lawyer, Murray has been interviewed twice by the police and they are not aware of any plans to interview him again. Chernoff said that based on Murray"s itemized minute by minute description of Jackson"s last days, he should not be a target of criminal charges. He said his client appeared to be attracting all the "fury" over the singer"s death because he was the "last doctor standing" when Jackson died. Murray now has a bodyguard with him day and night, and is very "frustrated by negative and often erroneous media reports", said Chernoff. In the meantime, in another investigation into Jackson"s death, the Los Angeles County Coroner is awaiting the results of toxicology tests to determine the cause of death. A spokesman for the coroner said results of the autopsy are likely to be released in a week or so. A report in the Los Angeles Times said the coroner"s office has requested another interview with Murray and wants more information from him. None of the information taken during the search at his premises on Wednesday had been requested before, neither by the police nor the LA coroner"s office, said Murray"s lawyer. William Bratton, Chief of Los Angeles Police told CNN they would wait for the coroner to determine cause of death and then consider if they were dealing with a homicide or an accidental overdose. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Murray found Jackson unconscious in the bedroom of his rented Holmby Hills home and performed CPR on him until the paramedics arrived. The paper said police questioned him in the presence of his laywer at UCLA Medical Center, where Jackson later died. Murray said through his lawyer that he did not give Jackson any narcotics or other medications that "should have" caused his death and was puzzled as to what may have caused it. s: CNN, Los Angeles Times. Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD Copyright: Medical News Today Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today


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