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Digitalis
Digitalis (foxgloves; family Scrophulariaceae) A genus of tall
herbs that have alternate leaves and attractive, drooping, 2-lipped, bell-like flowers. They are cultivated for their flowers and for the
alkaloid digitalis, used for heart stimulation. There are about 20 species, found in Europe and Central Asia.
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Digitalis Media Ltd Appoints Mark Wood Chairman.
M2 Presswire; 11/3/2009; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-3 November 2009-Digitalis Media: Digitalis Media Ltd Appoints Mark Wood Chairman(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:03112009 Digitalis Media Ltd,(http://www.digitalismedia.co...
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Amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis reveals three distinct taxa in Carex digitalis sect. Careyanae (Cyperaceae).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Botany; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...revealed the presence of three taxa within Carex digitalis Willd. (var. digitalis, var. floridana, var. macropoda). Even when...Clades or clusters corresponding with vars. digitalis and floridana were well supported in all analyses...
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DIGITALIS SAFE IN PATIENT WITH COMMON FORM OF HEART FAILURE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...following news release: The heart drug digitalis is safe to give to patients with diastolic heart failure, a new study has found. Digitalis is the oldest and one of the least expensive...heart failure management conducted by the Digitalis Investigation Group in the United States...
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Stubborn digitalis debate continues. (digitalis drug reduces risk of hospitalization due to heart failure, but not death)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 3/15/1997; ; 684 words
; ...value of a commonly used heart medicine, digitalis. Advocates of the drug have praised...avoided. To resolve the dispute, the Digitalis Investigation Group, made up of doctors...largest carefully controlled trial of digitalis in heart patients. The results appear...
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Digitalis Curbs Hospitalizations
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/20/1997; 387 words
; Digitalis, a drug used for more than two centuries...keep them alive, a large study found. Digitalis is widely prescribed, but it's so...were randomly assigned to take either digitalis or a dummy pill. They were followed...
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Digitalis impairs healthy neutrophil function.
Newspaper article from: Heart Disease Weekly; 11/16/2003; 700+ words
; ...net) -- The anti-arrythymia drug digitalis impairs healthy neutrophil function...evaluated the in vitro influence of digitalis and furosemide on the phagocytic function...expressed as median and extreme values." "Digitalis reduced the number of yeasts ingested...
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A WILY OLD FOXGLOVE; delight: Digitalis purpurea, known as the common foxglove, stands to attention beautifully.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...wildand vigorous woodland breed, the Digitalis grows happily in the privacy of ourplots...silently. Part of the magic surrounding the Digitalis is due to the plant's unusualability...canariensis) one example. Like the Digitalis, it prefers to grow in dappled shade...
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Digitalis revisited.
Newspaper article from: CHF Disease Management; 4/1/1999; 700+ words
; Digitalis revisited Still helpful, after all these years Digitalis has a longer clinical history than the stethoscope...that point, experts say it was good enough to know digitalis could help. Details such as how much was most effective...
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Digitalis Education Solutions Offers Digital Planetarium System.
Magazine article from: Entertainment Close-up; 9/5/2008; 571 words
; ...ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-5 September 2008-Digitalis Education Solutions Offers Digital Planetarium...CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Digitalis Education Solutions announced the Digitarium...multimedia display software is controlled with Digitalis' backlit remote control that works from...
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Digitalis's anticancer effects.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine; 5/1/2006; ; 655 words
; ...wrote of the "anticancer effects of digitalis" and referred to a Purdue University...looked at heart patients maintained on digitalis for life. In his survey, the Purdue...very few of the patients treated with digitalis died from cancer. In this same regard...
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Digitalis Drugs
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
Digitalis Drugs Definition Digitalis drugs are medicines made from a type of foxglove plant ( Digitalis purpurea ) that have a stimulating effect on the heart. Purpose Digitalis drugs are used to treat heart problems such as congestive heart failure...
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Digitalis
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Digitalis Digitalis is a drug that has been used for centuries to treat heart disease...be broken down into a sugar and nonsugar compound. Though current digitalis drugs are synthetic, that is, artificially made, early forms of...
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digitalis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
digitalis , any of several chemically similar drugs...later obtained from the foxglove plant, Digitalis purpurea, and from fuchsia (see figwort...drug used medically today. Chemically, digitalis is composed of a sugar (glycoside...
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Foxglove
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...Foxglove Description Foxglove, also called Digitalis purpurea , is a common biennial garden...are chemicals that affect the heart. Digitalis is poisonous; it can be fatal even in...the original source of the drug called digitalis. Foxglove is a native of Europe. It...
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herbal medicine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...such as laxatives. Medicines that come from plants include aspirin from willow bark ( Salix species) and digitalis from foxglove ( Digitalis purpurea ). Scientific interest in herbal medicine in the United States has lagged behind that in the...
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