Should Doctors Urge Patients To Take Breaks From Their Drugs?
...attle against HIV. Treatment holidays were debated at last month's Chicago Conference onRetroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Franco Lori of the Research Institutefor Genetic and Human Therapy in Washington DC described a patient in Berlin whostarted treatment with three types of anti-HIV drug s...Rice, Medical Center Institutions Join Forces On Health Initiative
... "Although American health policy has been debated repeatedly and attimes hotly since the turn of the century, those debates have revolved almostentirely around questions about access to medical care and methods of paymentsfor medical services," Djerejian continued. "And each round has served more to...Study finds predictors for youth violence and drugs
...ijuana use to theperpetuation of violence has been debated for at least 60 years in the UnitedStates. Some work has suggested that marijuana use might inhibit expression ofaggression, but most studies do indicate a positive association betweenmarijuana use and violence perpetuation. Another predictor was hav...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...rvey. Onethat could impact costs, and was recently debated in the legislature, is "Shoulda school nurse be required in every public school building?" with 72 percentsaying they strongly agree, and another 19 percent saying they somewhat agree.In a related question, 72 percent also strongly or somewhat agree ...Study suggests some unruptured aneurysms do not need treatment
...was reported in June in Neurology. Physicians have debated the value of treating all unruptured cerebral aneurysms for years. Because assessing the outcome of patients depends on a variety of factors and requires balancing early and delayed risks, the issue has been examined through several different decisio...National experts to debate the law and ethics of public health responses to bioterrorism
... Model State Emergency Health Powers Act now being debated and already introduced in the Minnesota Legislature. "The prospect of a bioterrorist disaster forces us to ask whether law and ethics authorize aggressive triage, isolation and quarantine, and access to private medical records, among other public h...Screening the controversy continues
...ss of breast cancer screening after a recent hotly debated review from the Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark claimed that seven trials involving half a million women were flawed and that there was no reliable evidence that screening reduced mortality. But Dr Robin Wilson, secretary of the European Group for ...Fibromyalgia pain isn't all in patients' heads, new brain study finds
...romyalgia care and science. But many skeptics have debated the very existence of fibromyalgia as a clearly distinct disorder, saying it seemed to be rooted more in psychological and social factors than in physical, biological causes. Their argument has been bolstered by the failure of research to find a clea......ussion on one of the more interesting -- and hotly debated -- ideas for health care reform: Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs). MSAs are an attempt to reduce health care costs by transferring responsibility for expenditures to patients while at the same time providing state-supported base amounts to cover some ...Stanford researcher shows flu shot benefits outweigh costs in healthy young adults
...n the United States each year. But physicians have debated whether vaccinating healthy, younger adults is worth the time and money. The answer is yes, according to a new study based on a computer model. The study was led by Patrick Lee, MD, a resident in internal medicine at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. ...Emergency physicians to convene in Seattle in October
...cords?) and the new ACLS guidelines, which will be debated by nationally recognized emergency physicians. Dr. Jeffrey Runge, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will discuss the benefits of emergency department screening programs in Put the Brakes on the Next Drunk Driver. In...Radical solutions needed to tackle NHS nursing shortage
...ed. The merits of these proposals should be openly debated and their evidence base evaluated, they conclude....Opioids should be considered for relief of chronic lower back pain
..., powerful pain relievers whose use has been hotly debated in the medical community, should be prescribed for some patients with chronic lower back pain, according to a Mayo Clinic article published in the September 2002 issue of Pain Medicine, http://www.blackwellscience.com/journals/pain . After reviewing...European trial finds old lung cancer treatment may still be best
...in non small-cell lung cancer had been extensively debated in the past and it took almost 20 years and the use of meta-analyses to prove that cisplatin-based chemotherapy conferred a modest but statistically significant survival benefit compared with the best standard of supportive care. Cisplatin analogues...Experts meet to challenge approaches of testing and developing cancer treatments
...nd process improvements. Workshops held last year debated and reported ways for confirmatory evidence to support a single clinical trial as a basis for drug approval and use of advanced modeling and simulation techniques in drug development approval. To underscore the Centers championship of better dose fi...9/11 boosted trust in government, temporary distress, research shows
...uration and its future implications will likely be debated among social and political scientists and become an area for ongoing research." Other key findings were that there were no significant differences between groups interviewed either before or after 9/11 in substance use or abuse, and young people who ...Emory University researchers find clue to Huntington's disease mechanism
...ays the role of the huntingtin aggregates is still debated by neurologists; it remains unclear whether the aggregates poison cells directly, or are a possibly protective byproduct. The huntingtin protein normally interacts with the HAP1 protein, which may transport growth-signaling proteins within cells. HA...Many low income Medicare beneficiaries will still face high drug bills under proposals in Congress
...rug costs can be devastating. The bills now being debated in Congress will still burden many of these couples with large shares of their incomes devoted to paying for drugs." Beneficiaries living on $10,000 to $20,000 annually are less likely than those in either lower or higher income groups to have presc...New insight into heart failure suggests novel drug target
...on and loss, Rockman said. Cardiologists have long debated whether the loss of beta-adrenergic receptors characteristic of heart failure protects the heart or whether it contributes to the disease, he added. Earlier work conducted by Rockman's team identified a protein enzyme, called PI3Kgamma, which is requ......ians and women with information on one of the most debated issues in maternity care. Sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network - part of the National Institutes of Health - the study's findings were presented today at the annual meeting of...