Drug companies are top health care lobbyists
...ians is essential at a time of growing concern and debate about the cost of prescription drugs, the influence of pharmaceutical marketing on patients and physicians, and access to health care for the uninsured," said Landers. "In a previous study, legislators said they want more input from physicians about ...Monkey virus may hold clue for development of common blood cancer
...e Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma. There has been a debate as to whether SV40, which contaminated some batches of polio vaccine in the 1950s and 60s, could cause human cancer, especially after the virus was discovered in human tumors. Given that, the M. D. Anderson researchers looked to see if either DNA fro...Physics and medicine: at Erice the new perspectives of an ancient cooperation
...between physics and medicine, at the centre of the debate of this year, demonstrated to be particularly frui...nt and artistic assets will be also discussed. The debate will involve of course the cooperation between physics and industry and the fact that the developmen...Extended lymph node dissection fails to increase long-term survival among gastric cancer patients
...at these definitive study findings resolve a major debate in the surgical oncology community over the benefi...issection has contributed to this improvement. The debate has particular relevance in Japan, where there are high rates of gastric cancer and the procedure is...Guideline: Heart condition does not increase risk of second stroke
...ot close in up to 25 percent of people. "There was debate within the medical community about whether PFOs should be closed or managed with medication, so we hoped to resolve that question," said guideline co-author Scott Kasner, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. "We found that there is n...Estrogenlike drugs may eventually help postmenopausal women with weight gain
Washington, DC -- Scientists may debate whether weight gain is a side effect of menopause, but the numbers are clear: On avEαge, women may experience a gain of approximately 10-15 pounds in the years surrounding menopause. The Debate Over the Cause of Weight Gain in Menopause SevE...Study reveals serious north-south health gap in modern Britain
... London. This adds another dimension to the policy debate on resource allocation and targets to tackle the health divide, say the authors....NIAID rotavirus vaccine licensed for commercialization
...lockage known as intussusception. After continuing debate and controversy, the risk of this adverse event was estimated to be about 1 excess case per 10,000 vaccinated infants and young children. A recent scientific perspective published by NIH scientists in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, however, esti...Kadian alleviated chronic pain in patients unsuccessfully treated with well-known therapies
...heir medication. In light of the current national debate on abuse of prescription drugs for pain, we believe this data should impact the treatment of pain on the clinical level." Some Patients Who Exceed Recommended Doses of OxyContin or MS Contin Find Relief with Kadian A subset population from this com...Carotid artery surgery could substantially reduce stroke among high-risk patients
...e risks if not done by experts. There is currently debate as to whether people who have substantial narrowing of the carotid arteries (but who have not had a recent stroke or transient ischaemic attack) should undergo carotid endarterectomy (CEA)-a complex surgical procedure to widen the carotid arteries wh...Recent research finds boys have more literacy problems than girls
...rsity of Warwick, said: "There has been an ongoing debate after some studies found that reading problems were equal for boys and girls, but this thorough large-scale study with should put that controversy to rest." Dr Carroll, added: "Clearly, there is a higher percentage of reading-disabled males, which is...Better research needed to assess psychological and social effects of cannabis
...or education and prevention, but there is a fierce debate on the place repressive measures should have in this context. There is little reason to believe that criminalisation has had a strong effect on the extent of cannabis use by young people. Moreover, prohibition itself seems to increase the harmfulness...Broken halide lamps could cause sunburn
... one should avoid getting a sunburn, there is some debate that the eye injuries could also be associated with subsequent cataract development. Schaffner said that to prevent these injuries from occurring, cages should be put over the bulb or bulbs that automatically switch off once the glass is cracked sho...First proof that cutting Rx drugs due to cost harms health
...nd during Americans' Medicare years, and shape the debate on whether short-term drug spending might lead to long-term savings by averting health problems. One proposal, championed by co-author and U-M professor of internal medicine and public health Mark Fendrick, M.D., is the benefit-based co-pay, which wo...Will the insured sacrifice to help cover the uninsured? New study suggests yes
...lping the less fortunate. On the other side of the debate were arguments about personal responsibility and concerns about 'free riders.'" The discussions that led to the group decisions also appeared to affect individuals' decisions when they were asked again to design a health plan for their own families. ...Friedman School of Tufts: Policy Points
...trition policies, such as dietary guidelines, or a debate about individual responsibility, a recent article in the Annual Review of Nutrition takes a different tack. Agricultural and economic policies, combined with food industrialization and overproduction, argues the paper, must be studied in order to add...Long term benefits of health care require greater emphasis
...portant role in policy decision making. An ongoing debate in this field is how to value the future health costs and outcomes compared to the immediate costs and outcomes of health care interventions. "Discounting is a mathematical procedure for adjusting future health care costs and outcomes to 'present ...Younger men lead surge in Viagra use, study reveals
... With healthcare resources becoming more scarce, debate continues over the coverage of lifestyle medications such as Viagra. "Already concerned with the impact Viagra has had on their pharmacy budgets, health plan sponsors now face the prospect of increased use among a younger, healthier generation of pa...National Academies news: Communication Awards winners announced
...insightful synthesis of the issues surrounding the debate over the influence nature and nurture have on individuals. (Originally published in 2003 as "NATURE VIA NURTURE.") NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE/INTERNET ROBERT LEE HOTZ, reporter, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, for his compelling reporting on the space shuttle Colu...Reconstituted blood is better for infants' heart surgery than fresh blood
...nd Journal of Medicine, put to rest a decades-long debate in the medical community, said Dr. Daniel Stromberg, assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern and the study's senior author. "The results demonstrate that the current national opinion regarding the benefits of fresh whole blood is inco...