Chronic disease: the overlooked & understudied epidemic
...gical flaws. Attempts at reassuring patients newly diagnosed with chronic conditions often provoke anxiety -- n...phone follow-up to the treatment of patients newly diagnosed with depression increased average costs by $80 per patient, but improved depression by more than 50 ...Cranfield pioneers back pain research
...University, it is hoped that back problems will be diagnosed more consistently and accurately allowing for the correct treatment to be given. Hundreds of patients at Swindon's Princess Margaret Hospital have taken part in this groundbreaking research into back pain. Marylin Vaughn and Steven Cavaill from the...New study underscores effectiveness of methadone maintenance as treatment for heroin addiction
.... Currently, only about 20 percent of the 810,000* diagnosed heroin addicts in the U.S. receive this treatment." Study director Dr. Sharon Hall says, "The goalof this study was to determine whether short-term methadone-assisted detoxification, when enriched with intensive psychosocial services and aftercare,c...Protease inhibitor could help prevent alzheimer's
...g elderly people. There are an estimated 4 million diagnosed cases in the United States, according to the National Institute of Aging. Approximately 10 percent of the U.S. population have inherited genetic mutations that may lead to the disease, according to the Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Cente...Ritalin and Prozac: Study finds more kids using both drug types together
...nd Dexedrine are most often used to treat children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, while antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil are used in the treatment of serious depression, school phobias and other serious anxiety disorders, bedwetting, some bulimic-type eating disorders, a...Brain scans of Gulf War veterans show brain damage
...f War Army veterans living in Dallas who have been diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome 2. "Finding the same level of brain cell abnormality in the veterans from a different branch of service and a different part of the country increases the likelihood that the findings are widespread among the nation's veterans...UCSD researcher wins grant to study colon cancer in African-Americans
...year, approximately 149,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with colorectal cancer and about 56,000 people die of the disease. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in the U.S....New drug works well as sole epilepsy therapy for difficult-to-treat patients
...181,000 new cases of the neurological disorder are diagnosed each year. Epilepsy costs the United States approx...omparative trials which ranged from patients newly diagnosed with epilepsy to hospitalized patients undergoing evaluation for epilepsy surgery. The medication is...Missing proteins in the uterus tied to infertility in women with endometriosis
...er findings by Lessey based on 113 infertile women diagnosed with minimal or mild endometriosis provided support for this belief. He compared fertility rates of 30 beta3 positives and 38 beta3 negatives. Neither group received subsequent therapy for their endometriosis. Of these women, 73 percent of the positi...US AIDS cases, deaths, and HIV infections appear stable
...nce July 1998, the number of AIDS cases and deaths diagnosed in the U.S. each quarter (three month period) has ...th roughly 4,000 AIDS deaths and 10,000 AIDS cases diagnosed each quarter. Prior to 1998, deaths and cases had been declining dramatically since the availability...San Francisco study shows antiretroviral treatment continues to improve AIDS survival
...frica. The study included 2,607 persons who were diagnosed with one of the AIDS-defining opportunistic illnesses between 1995-97 and 3,228 persons diagnosed with either an opportunistic illness or low CD4 cell count within the same time period. Researchers ...Family history of high cholesterol often not detected until middle age
...t only about a quarter of the cases predicted were diagnosed routinely, and most remained undiagnosed until middle age. Lack of diagnosis was greatest among children and young adults: only two children under 10 years and 12 aged 10-19 years had been identified. These findings have important implications for cl......0 through 69 who had had epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosed within the previous six months. The subjects were drawn from 39 hospitals in Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. Also interviewed, as controls, were 1,367 women age 20-69, who were selected primarily through random telephone dialing wit...Analysis of study looks at why quitters return to smoking
...disorder or who have a history of or are currently diagnosed with bulimia or anorexia nervosa. It should also not be used in people who are taking or have recently taken a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO-I). It is important that patients tell their healthcare professionals about all medicines they are takin...The 700,000 Americans diagnosed with sepsis each year might have a better chance of reversing the dramatic and often fatal blood pressure drop that typically accompanies septic shock if new treatments are developed based on an animal study reported in today's Proceedings of the Nat...... estimates that about 184,500 American men will be diagnosed with the disease this year and 39,200 will die. I...d in men who underwent RT and AST as treatment for diagnosed early-stage prostate cancer compared with men who received RT. Although no significant difference b......estimated 164,100 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed in 2000, accounting for 14 percent of cancer diagnoses, according the American Cancer Society. NSCLC accounts for 75 to 80 percent of all lung cancer cases. Lung cancer will claim the lives of an estimated 156,900 men and women this year, accountin...Novartis receives FDA approval for LESCOL XL 80 mg
... be discontinued if myopathy or rhabdomyolysis are diagnosed or suspected. The effect of LESCOL or LESCOL XL on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has not been determined....Why does an anti-depressant work for some people, but not others?
...are. In the double blind study, 15 male veterans diagnosed with severe depression at a San Antonio hospital were given either a standard dose of the anti-depressant fluoxetine (trade name Prozac), or a placebo. Of the 10 who received Prozac, all showed a similar pattern of brain changes at the end of the fir......d risk of death, particularly when hospitalized or diagnosed as having breast cancer. Among Americans surveyed for the BRFSS in 1998, 9.7 percent were long-term uninsured, 4.3 percent were short-term uninsured, and 86 percent were insured. Proportions of uninsured individuals were higher among younger adult...