Landmark antidepressant analysis demonstrated significant efficacy of Effexor®/Effexor XR
... the physical symptoms of depression in 31 trials, documents that EFFEXOR®/EFFEXOR XR yielded significantly greater resolution of the general somatic symptoms of depression based upon the criteria of the anxiety/somatization factor of the HAM-D21 scale. Such symptoms can include pain such as headache and jo...Heart devices, transplants have similar costs; what will we pay?
...osts?" Oz says. "This is the first of a series of documents to explain the costs and get to the root question of whether it is worth it for society to invest money in this technology."...Womens stroke symptoms differ from mens, often arent 'traditional' signs, study finds
ANN ARBOR, MI A new study documents for the first time a significant difference in the way women and men describe their symptoms while they're having a stroke. And that difference may be affecting how women receive emergency stroke treatment. On the whole, the study found, women were 6...OHSU ethicist offers guidance for physicians with patients using alternative medicine
...he physician respects the patient's strong wishes, documents her rejection of medical recommendations and offers continued medical advice if needed. "One of the major messages of the paper is to thoroughly investigate treatment options and hold in-depth discussions with a patient," added Adams. "The promise t...Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
... document collaboratively," Urban said. Supporting documents such as summary statistics, timelines, protocols and meeting minutes also can be posted, allowing investigators to jump quickly from discussion to data and references. The Department of Defense since 1992 has allocated funds for breast-cancer researc...Food irradiation is focus of two-day symposium, Aug. 19-20
...ives are duplicating large amounts of mailed paper documents they have received that have been irradiated due to the recent anthrax scare in the Washington, D.C., area. (The paper on this research, AGFD 130, will be presented at 1:10 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 20, at Marriott Copley Place, Salon D.) Kristina Paq...Academic Medicine highlights strong DMS education in patient care
... the multidisciplinary primary care clerkship that documents students' clinical and educational experiences and provides peer-comparison feedback reports utilizing a timely data reporting system. They present cost comparisons of paper- and personal digital assistant (PDA)-based system development and maintenan...CDC report shows cancer death rates in Appalachia higher than national
...lution and various behavioral factors, this report documents that people of Appalachia, particularly those in rural Appalachia, also have high rates of cancer mortality," said Gene Lengerich, VMD, associate professor of health evaluation sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, and research director for the N...Prying eyes? Researchers can keep it confidential
...s when medical journals are hit with subpoenas for documents in a court case. But now, according to a study pub...e hardship journals suffer if compelled to produce documents Courts then look at whether the disclosure is relevant and necessary Courts finally weigh the intere...Calcium-dependent potassium channels as target to increase drug delivery to brain tumors
...ndothelial cells of larger vessels, but this study documents their existence in the tiny capillaries and investigates their impact on capillary permeability. The researchers found overexpression of calcium-dependent potassium channels in rat brain tumor cells and capillaries, compared to normal brain tissue. T...Impaired sodium excretion after stress contributes to hypertension in blacks
... in the current issue of the journal Hypertension, documents structural changes in the left ventricles of blacks who retain sodium during stress. Hypertension is not a disease in and of itself; its a symptom of some other underlying disorder, said Dr. Harshfield, an expert in the kidneys role in blood pressure...Dartmouth team finds uneven relationship between newborn intensive care and death rates
...hed May 16 in The New England Journal of Medicine, documents a wide regional disparity in the availability of newborn specialists and intensive care nursery beds that correlates poorly with improved survival. It lays the groundwork for reassessing the allocation of resources to improve newborn health and preve...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet
...health perceptions and behavior. "If careful study documents that patients who get annual examinations feel better, behave healthier, undergo more appropriate screening, and trust their physicians more than patients who do not have annual examinations, skeptics would need to reconsider the value of this yearly...Low referral rates, low income keep women out of cardiac rehab programs
...neral Hospital Psychiatry reveals. The same study documents that even when women are referred, they complete the programs less frequently than men do. Lead investigator Sherry L. Grace, Ph.D., of the University Health Network Womens Health Program in Toronto, cites evidence that this difference could stem fro...Hospital mortuary services need regular inspection
...ers at the Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust audited the documents accompanying all 7,761 deceased patients in the hospital during 1996-2000. Bodies were received from funeral directors and ambulance crews as well as hospital wards. They checked wrist bands, labels, and identification papers against the patients reg...Beth Israel Deaconess study documents outstanding surgical outcomes for diabetes patients
...y database, which remains in existence, thoroughly documents the surgical outcomes of every patient undergoing vascular surgeries carotid endarterectomy, aortic reconstruction including treatment of aneurysms, and lower extremity revascularization at BIDMC. The database also carefully chronicles patient demo...Medieval black death not bubonic plague
...eattle, are investigating church records and other documents from England to reconstruct the virulence, spacial diffusion and temporal dynamics of the Black Death. They are looking especially closely at bishops records of the replacement of priests in several English dioceses. Although these records are ofte...Tobacco industry strategies for influencing European community tobacco advertising legislation
...A, reviewed online collections of tobacco industry documents from US tobacco companies made public under the US...probably lies in the approach to litigationsourced documents as used by Neuman and colleagues....Document destruction practices obliterate tobacco company defenses in critical Australian decision
...ncluded:1. The destruction of potentially relevant documents by the defendant, at a time when litigation was ap... the plaintiff as to the true situation concerning documents discoverable in the trial; 3. The defendants conduct caused severe prejudice to the plaintiff. Justi...More patients would refuse treatment if the outcome were impaired quality of life
...references are usually stated in advance directive documents available at most hospitals in which patients are asked whether they wish to receive an array of interventions. Several investigators have pointed out the limitations in this system because the desirability of an intervention depends heavily upon it...