First quarter 2002 prescription drug spending: Higher again, but rate of increase drops
... Plus Choice plans, data from these two groups are excluded from the study. The resulting samples of 3 million members in each of the years 2000 and 2001 consist of about two-thirds non-managed care commercial members and one-third managed care commercial members. Data Sources: Consumer Opinion SurveyKnowle...Study finds elderly patients know too little about their medications
...r dosages. Researchers said if their study had not excluded elderly patients, who did not know their pharmacy, were disoriented or medically unstable, they may have found this problem to be much more pervasive. Annals of Emergency Medicine is the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Emergency Phys...FDA approves Actonel for once-a-week use
...ivotal Actonel clinical studies, patients were not excluded based on a history of, or active, GI disease....Testosterone may reduce risk of stroke in men; Estrogen levels not related to stroke
...ate ourselves had not yet been investigated. We excluded participants who used hormone therapy in our study, which followed 6,732 persons over the course of five to eight years, said study author Monika Hollander, MD, of Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Hollander and fellow researchers then...St. John's wort ineffective for depression
...baseline. Participants were carefully screened and excluded based on various criteria including suicide risk, previous non-responsiveness to medications, diagnoses of other disorders such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, being pregnant or at risk for pregnancy (planned or otherwise), and use of other dru...Elderly patients have a high risk of stroke within six months of a heart attack
...e of older heart attack patients who have not been excluded from the study based on other illnesses or older age. "The importance of stroke after myocardial infarction (MI) has been underappreciated, especially among older persons," said Judith Lichtman, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology ...New study says people take mental stress to heart
...ow-up was done at 3.5 and 5.2 years. Patients were excluded if they had a serious noncardiac illness, unstable angina, neurological disease, were unable to discontinue medications that influence cardiac function, or had undergone coronary surgery or angioplasty. An exercise stress test, radionuclide imaging o...Women face high risk of developing breast cancer following radiotherapy for Hodgkins Disease
...er prior to the diagnosis of Hodgkins Disease were excluded from the analysis. They found that 30 women had developed breast cancer, of whom four had developed cancer at different times in both breasts. They found that the relative risk, expressed as SMR (standard morbidity ratio)2, of developing breast canc...Key predictors of heart disease in women develop as early as adolescence
...ed States. Yet, heart disease research has often excluded women as subjects. Cincinnati Childrens is studying young women specifically to gain more knowledge about the predictors of heart disease in women....... 46 postmenopausal and 10 premenopausal. They were excluded if they had coronary stents, coronary artery bypass surgery, or were a medical-legal case. Medical records were reviewed for demographics, coronary heart disease risk factors, menstrual status, and use of estrogen replacement therapy....Stopping statins may cause rebound that triples risk of death
...art disease. However, most previous statin trials excluded patients who had suffered an acute coronary syndrome (heart attack or angina) within the preceding three to six months. The drugs appear to do more than lower cholesterol. They reduce artery inflammation, theability of platelets to clump into blood ...First-of-its-kind study of vascular dementia patients taking ARICEPT presented at AAGP meeting
...Details The study included patients with VaD and excluded those with a diagnosis of AD. Patients were selected using research criteria specifically designed to identify patients with VaD. The criteria were developed by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) with support from t...Cycled light promotes growth in pre-term infants
...l. Infants with neurologic or visual problems were excluded from the study. The babies were assigned randomly to three groups: cycled light from birth, cycled light once they reached 32 weeks postconceptual age (equivalent to gestational age if the baby had not been born pre-term) and cycled light at 36 weeks...Imaging tool helps locate recurrent prostate cancer
...tment for their prostate cancer. Ten patients were excluded from the study because lymph nodes were not removed at the time of the prostatectomy. All but three of the 255 men in the study showed an elevation of PSA levels, the only sign that their cancer might be returning. Recurrent disease was detected by ...Deaths at Bristol not explained by low volume of operations
...urgery on children from 1991 to 1995. His analysis excluded results from Bristol. He found strong and consistent evidence that hospitals performing a higher number of open heart operations in children aged under 1 year tended to have a lower death rate. For instance, a hospital carrying out 120 operations per...Initial clinical study shows safety and bioactivity of cancer vaccine
...d PSA levels in seven of the 13 patients. Six were excluded because they required radiation treatments for preexisting tumors or they took herbal supplements that could impact PSA levels. In the remaining seven, six had a significant decrease in PSA levels and three patients exhibited a decrease in free-circu......etails The study included patients with VaD and excluded those with a diagnosis of AD. Patients were selected using research criteria specifically designed to identify patients with VaD. The criteria were developed by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) with support from t...Study: quality of neighborhood tied to coronary heart disease
...n-fatal heart attacks. Some original subjects were excluded because they had existing heart disease when the study began or because not enough information was available for analysis about where they lived. Living in the most disadvantaged group of neighborhoods, as compared with the most advantaged group, was...Drinking and drugging can be painful
...ury deaths in the hospital, among many others. We excluded medical misadventures that resulted in injury. We also excluded injuries treated at the same time that someone was admitted to the hospital primarily for substance-...Increase in effective contraceptive use can reduce abortion rate
... in a birth or induced abortion (miscarriages were excluded from the analysis)--depends on three factors: the desired number and spacing of births, the prevalence and effectiveness of contraceptive practice to implement these preferences, and the probability of undergoing an abortion when contraceptives fail ...