National Health Study Launched On The Internet
...reatments aremost effective, as well as drugs that have heretofore unrecognized effects, bothbeneficial an...arning system for drugs or dietarysupplements that have serious side effects." Williams notes that vitamins and dietary supplements are widely consumed yett...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
..., who has a doctorate in pharmacy. "These patients have achronic disease that can be managed with appropri...tients, Gattis said. "Clinical pharmacists have been extremely helpful -- both for physiciansand patients -- in evaluating the side effects of drugs......e drugs, Duke University MedicalCenter researchers have found significant differences in heart attack rate...lings are final. Differences of opinion have become common as large multi-center trialsuse more subtle measurements, or endpoints, to determine t...Poor Heart Disease Patients Pay More For Medications, Get Less Preventative Care
...NTA - Doctors know that heart disease patients who have a limitededucation and few economic resources are ... low-income individuals," Tung said. "Noone should have to choose between food and medication." Duke researchers Lai Choi Lam, Nancy Clapp-Channing...First Trimester Screening For Down Syndrome Possible, NICHD-Funded Study Finds
...pregnancy--earlier thanprevious screening regimens have permitted, according to a study appearing inthe Ap...risk, and cost of cvs and amniocentesis,scientists have sought ways to screen pregnancies with simpler tests that wouldprovide an indication of women with a...Effects Of Physical Activity On Preterm Birth
...rcise or occupationalactivity alone. These studies have generally ignored physical activityassociated with... often if they lived in housing projects and might have to walk often inorder to get to the grocery store or reach public transportation. However,leisure t...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...in,some anti-cancer drugs and oral contraceptives, have been associated with thesyndrome. TTP has...nded to include personswho undergo angioplasty and have a cardiac stent implanted during the procedure.Fifteen cases of ticlopidine-associated TTP were foun...Keeping Score On Doctors: Report Says Flaws In Counting Must Be Addressed To Ensure Accuracy
..."scorecards" are here to stay, so as physicians we have theresponsibility to be sure the methods used to g... ingeneral, sound, it had several flaws that could have skewed results. They chosePennsylvania because it was the first state to implement a government-spon...New Research In Battling Alzheimer's Impact On Memory
... researchers at Case Western ReserveUniversity may have found the first step in the formation of toxic pla...chem, Inc. in Kingston, Ontario, Canada,scientists have found about 100 small organic molecules that bind to thebeta-peptide implicated in Alzheimer's disea...Adding Progestins May Negate Heart Protection From Estrogen Replacement Therapy
... heart attack or stroke. Previous studies have found that women taking estrogen lowered theirrisk of heart disease by 30 percent. However, in most cases, the women weretaking estrogen alone. The effect of ERT plus progestins has not been well researched, notesVogel. Estrogen prot...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...r to other common medical treatments. "You have to compare this with other efforts to improve surv...e took $2 billion in one yearand bought AEDs, we'd have over a million, or 1 defibrillator for every 300people. You can view one defibrillator per 300 peop...Higher Prices Won't Stop Teenage Smokers
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Boosting taxes on cigarettes will have a far less dramatic effect on rates of teen-age sm... In fact, say the researchers, higher taxes will have "a statistically insignificant impact" on whether young people decide to start smoking. The Cornel...Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
...ects of Western biomedicine," Gordon said. "People have found that often it isineffective in curing chroni...zes cure rather than prevention. Manymedicines can have serious side effects, biomedicine can be very austere and uncaring, costs have soared and the benefi...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
...ngineered too large for the microscopic doors they have to pass through. Equally perplexing, some...s lose their efficacy after only a fewrounds. Many have chalked up these failures to the development ofresistance -- when successive rounds of chemotherapeu...Clot-Busters As Effective As Surgery To Clear Blockages In Legs
... to save the brain during a stroke.Now, physicians have shown that clot-busting drugs(thrombolytics) can s...e, including many surgeons, still think thatif you have a blocked artery in the leg, you need an operation.That's not necessarily true any longer." Fra......emature infantsget off mechanical ventilators, may have serious side effects. The study, which w... get off the ventilatorearlier. Although steroids have been used to treat ventilator-dependentpremature infants who were developing chronic lung disease at...Heart Laser Surgery: An Alternative To Transplantation
... 20% each year. Many of these individuals can not have bypass surgery and are potential heart transplant candidates. According to Dr. Jeevanandam, "Due to the lack of sufficient numbers of donor hearts, TMR offers a cost-effective alternative to heart transplantation without the side effects of immunosu..."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
...hey say,political concerns and historical patterns have interfered. In response, theresearchers used operations research to bolster trauma systems design. TRAMAH was applied and tested from two different perspectives. The first assumedthat no existing trauma care resources were present. Resources were thu...