Dermatologists Recommend Raising Age for Insurance Coverage for Acne Drugs to Age 40 -- or Beyond
...ervices, they cut off coverage of tretinoin in the belief thatacne is mostly an affliction of teens and young adults. In some cases, Feldman said, insurance companies may cover tretinoinprescriptions for adults over the cut-off age, but only if their doctor getspre-authorization from the company to ...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
... ofpregnancy. This strategy is contrary to popular belief that drugs are mostharmful to the fetus during that early period, said Slotkin. His findings showthat nicotine does most damage to the fetus during the second and thirdtrimesters, meaning that pregnant women have a "window of opportunity" early inpre...Only Eight Percent Of San Francisco HIV-Positive Urban Poor Receive Protease Inhibitors
...g noted,one reason they are not given drugs is the belief that they would not adhere totherapy. Among the patients receiving protease inhibitor therapy, there was a widerange--from 24 to 100 percent of pills taken--of how well they took the drugs. The average adherence was 92 percent by patient report and......e president of DTCA. "This analysis validates our belief that theseimprovements can be achieved in the first year of program operation." In addition to improved financial outcomes for participating healthplans, program participants also experienced significant clinical improvements. The percentag...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...lightlyunhappy also contributed, combined with the belief that taking the medication asprescribed may make you feel better physically but won't make you feel anybetter emotionally. "Being a very busy person is the single biggest risk factor we found," saysPark. "Having a life that's overly full leaves litt...Jefferson Physician Warns Further Study Of DHEA's Safety Needed
...aking such over-the-counter drugs in the unproved belief that it will enhance their strength. DHEA can produce unpleasant side-effects in women as well. A 1994 study showed that blood testosterone measurements rose in most females given DHEA, and in some cases, doubled their male hormone levels. This,...Want To Eat Less Fat? Resolve To Read Food Labels
...t believe a low-fat dietwas important); a strong belief that diet is related to risk of serious diseases such ascancer or heart disease (these people were three times more likely to readlabels than those who did not think diet was related to illness); and being obese (these people did not read labels mo...Future Chlamydia Screening Should Take Account Of Possible Disadvantages For Women
...ggest that social changes have generated a popular belief in men and women that it is women who bear sole responsibility for contraception and avoidance of pregnancy. They say that the strategy of involving men peripherally in a chlamydia screening programme (only as contacts of infected women) may reinfor...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...ly truth, Chinese medicine challenges ourmodernist belief that the body alone must be the basis of gender differences, orthat bodies must be understood as sharply individuated rather than bound up incollective life. Chinese physicians had long worked within the framework offered by yin-yangtheories to class...New Book Looks At Those Who Examine Our Sex Lives
...dreds of men and women who undertooksurveys in the belief that the truth about sex can set us free." She says,"Most but not all surveyors want to liberate sex from what they see as arepressive Victorian morality. They see social problems of the day as sexualproblems." Ericksen believes the surveys general...Insurance Restrictions On Acne Drug Are Outmoded And Costly
...prescribe it for a specificpatient. In the belief that acne is mostly an affliction of teen-agers and youngadults, and that older patients want the drug mostly for wrinkles, manyinsurance companies limit or deny payment for older patients who use tretinoin. Previous research by Feldman and ...American Heart Association Media Advisory: Cholesterol Lowering Margarines
...d not stop taking their medication in the mistaken belief thatthe new margarines can replace the medication," says Lichtenstein. Children and adults who have not been diagnosed as having elevated levels of LDLcholesterol should not consume the product as a "preventive" measure. Whilecholesterol lowering ...Study finds predictors for youth violence and drugs
...e of violent behavior, as was the expression ofthe belief by students that the police could not protect them. A logicalconcomitant of such a belief, carrying weapons, was also a violence predictor. The students were also asked in earlier interviews whether they went to places -parties, streets, parks - whic......TH for CLL. "The data from this trial confirm our belief in CAMPATH and provide a strongbasis for the BLA which we are now preparing in consultation with the FDA," said ChristopherMirabelli, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of LeukoSite. "CAMPATH is the mostadvanced in our portfolio of four pr...Early to rise: Research offers clues to older people's sleep habits
...riod of a little more than24 hours, countering the belief that the circadian clock has a 25-hour periodthat shortens in duration with age. "The circadian period averages 24 hours and 11 minutes in both young and olderindividuals," said the study's lead author Charles A. Czeisler, Ph.D., M.D. ofHarvard Medi...MGH study shows mitral valve prolapse not a stroke risk factor
...y usingoutdated imaging techniques, had led to the belief that mitral valve prolapsewas a significant risk f...ed to have their valves repaired or replaced. The belief that mitral valve prolapse was common came from studies using some ofthe earliest forms of cardiac u...New study finds African-Americans less likely to receive stroke-saving surgery
... endarterectomy. "This finding fails to support a belief of manyphysicians that African-Americans tend to have more plaque in their brainarteries. Physicians are generally less likely to recommend patients withblockages in the upper brain for carotid endarterectomy because it is muchriskier for those pati...Hospital study shows more patients could qualify for free care coverage
...ue of Health Affairs.However, contrary to a common belief that many patients whose expenses arewritten off a...patientseligible for free care, there was a common belief that those whose unpaid billscame under the category of nonemergent bad debt were able to pay for th...University of Chicago study finds therapy to prevent miscarriage is not helpful
...m the father's blood. The therapy is based on the belief that it offers aprotective immune response and helps maintain the pregnancy. Six medical centers from the United States and Canada participated inthe Recurrent Miscarriage Study, evaluating 179 women from July 1992 throughDecember 1997. The ...Positive outlook, sense of self-control can predict new coronary events, says Carnegie Mellon study
...mselves, an optimistic outlookfor the future and a belief that they could make necessary lifestyle changes,might have altered the course of their diseases. What the study suggested but could not determine was the source of a moreprovocative mind-body question -- does a patient's psychological state have adi...