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Safety of Mixing Hawthorn Supplements With Heart-Failure Meds Questioned
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Title Safety of Mixing Hawthorn Supplements With Heart-Failure Meds Questioned
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/576131?src=rss
Description Adding the widely used herbal medicinal to evidence-based drug therapy seemed to worsen HF progression almost immediately in a retrospective analysis of a randomized trial. Heartwire
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Date Jun 17, 2008
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