Domestic violence causes long-term health consequences for women
...erlooking the possibility of abuse could result in prescribing a useless treatment. For example, recommending safe sex practices will not help a woman who is being sexually abused. Study results also point to a need to screen for abuse regardless of a woman's socioeconomic status. "Our sample represented a raci...Hormone replacement therapy may help prevent heart vessel disease, says Wake Forest researcher
..., Clarkson emphasized the importance of not basing prescribing practices on one or two studies of older women, but rather, evaluating all available data. After reviewing recent clinical trials, Clarkson concludes that mounting evidence supports the probability that estrogen therapies can serve as a primary prev...Sequence provides insights into a pathogen's virulence mechanism allowing for vaccine development
...tiae infections has dropped since physicians began prescribing antibiotics during delivery for high-risk pregnant women in 1996, but invasive infections in adults with deficient immune systems have increased. S. agalactiae has a circular genome of about 2.16 million base pairs. Researchers predicted that there ...Fasting forestalls Huntington's disease in mice
...e and extend the lives of Huntington's patients by prescribing low-caloric diets or diets with reduced meal frequency," says Mark Mattson, Ph.D., chief of the NIA's Laboratory of Neurosciences. The study will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition the week of Feb...Changes in prevalence of mutations associated with HIV treatment failure
...dence. However, the data show that the changes in prescribing patterns of antiretroviral therapy and in the mutations associated with specific drugs or drug combinations follow expected parallel trends. Further studies are warranted to directly show the relationship between mutations, antiretroviral therapy ch...Advances in prosthetic, orthopedic, and audiologic diagnostic tools
...tinnitus retraining therapy forms aid in uniformly prescribing audiological care, pg. 157 Article presents expanded Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) forms and provides explanations for each question. TRT is an increasingly popular method for treating patients with severe tinnitus (ringing in the ears). TRT is ...Clinical study reports findings of combination therapy with DOXIL
...on about DOXIL, please visit www.DOXIL.com . Full prescribing information for DOXIL is available at http://www.doxil.com/05_shared_pages/01_prescribing_info.html.com . About Ortho Biotech Products, L.P. Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., marketer of DOXIL, was established in Raritan, New Jersey in 1990 as the fi...FDA approves Raptiva (efalizumab) for chronic moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis
...dation's Web site at www.psoriasis.org . For full prescribing information, visit www.gene.com or call 1-877-RAPTIVA. For more information on RAPTIVA including information on comprehensive support services, visit www.RAPTIVA.com or call 1-877-RAPTIVA. About Genentech Genentech is a leading biotechnology...Ethical guidelines needed before 'nutrigenomic' groceries come to market
...cs Conference (Amsterdam Nov. 6-7), stops short of prescribing specific ethical guidelines for the development and implementation of nutritional genomics technology. Rather, it is designed to foster public debate, setting out issues that must be considered as consumers begin customizing diets to prevent and miti...New advances in thrombosis help further understanding of disease prevention
...start testing for these genetic disorders prior to prescribing E+P, we will need to study this area further," Cushman said. Enoxaparin Treatment Improves the Gestational Outcome of Pregnant Women with Thrombophilia and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: The LIVE-ENOX Study (Abstract 43) It is estimated that recurrent...National ocean commissioners & scientists call for overhaul of ocean policies & management
...luding medical history and current medications, in prescribing a cure for a specific ailment, ocean managers must learn to think about the interconnectedness of an ecosystem. Just as the heart is connected to the lungs and brain, so too are different species connected within an ecosystem. When managers try to ad...Anti-interferon beta antibodies in MS care: A consensus
... selecting a long-term treatment for MS. Based on prescribing information, NAbs have been detected at different levels among the available interferon betas: 43% of Betaseron patients (Interferon Beta-1b) 24% of Rebif patients (Interferon Beta-1a) 5% of Avonex patients (Interferon Beta-1a) "Therefore, it is i...Researchers receive NIH grant to open pediatric pharmacology research center
...of an antibiotic to be certain that physicians are prescribing the appropriate amount of the drug. Other key faculty and staff members at UT Southwestern and Children's involved in the center are: Dr. Octavio Ramilo, associate professor of pediatrics; Dr. Victor Aquino, assistant professor of pediatrics; Dr. Rob...Immunity gene predicts severe adverse drug reaction
...ll be able to test patients' genetic makeup before prescribing medications in order to predict those that are likely to have a severe adverse reaction," Chen said. "The technology is here and there will be more advances to come." Understanding such genetic interactions might also prove a boon to new drug develop...Pharmacogenomics could replace 'trial-and-error' with science from the human genome
...ror" approach. Incorporating pharmacogenomics into prescribing decisions will represent a major change for the health care community. Clinicians are reluctant to incorporate genetic information into the medical record, as long as it is not clear whether health insurance companies might discriminate against patie...Innovative efforts target epigenetics, molecular imaging
...ch information also could enable doctors to tailor prescribing practices to each person's unique genetic profile. Along with its tremendous promise, such technology raises a number of ethical, legal and social questions. Accordingly, as part of its CEGS grant, the Harvard center plans to examine issues related t...Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won't work, study shows
...id, hospitals could probably help patients more by prescribing a variety of antibiotics, a method known as mixing. That means instead of having a standard, rotating antibiotic that is used routinely within a single unit, such as intensive care, or even throughout the hospital, a more effective strategy would be ...