Elderly should receive the same cancer care as young people
(Cancer in old age - is it inadequately investigated and treated?) Ageism in healthcare staff, lack of awareness of treatments available and beliefs or fears of patients and their families about cancer and its treatment, may all contribute to the fact that older patients do not receive t...Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
...isease is the management left to GPs,who are often inadequately trained to cope. Depressed people can become a burden to GPs, one third of whom admit to havinglittle interest in mental illness. A fifth of all company employees are depressed, many because of stress. This isoften caused by bad management. Tens ...New drug works well as sole epilepsy therapy for difficult-to-treat patients
...ed. It enrolled 87 outpatients as young as 12 with inadequately controlled partial seizures, whether or not they had secondarily generalized seizures. The study included a 56-day baseline phase, during which patients were maintained on a constant dose of the one or two antiepileptic drugs they had been taking pri...Invitation to take part in one-on-one interviews with experts on Avandia
...new treatment option is available to patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes. Avandia is the first thiazolidinedione to receive centralized approval across the 15 countries of the European Union and has been approved in over 50 countries worldwide. Avandia has been linked with improvements in ...Avandia provides new combination option for patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes
...ovides a new combination option for patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes. Previously, obese, t...lerated in patients with renal impairment who are inadequately controlled by sulphonylurea monotherapy, offering hope to this important group of patients." The ...Survey finds chronic pain sufferers unsatisfied with pain treatments
...tients and the physicians who care for them. When inadequately treated, pain interferes with patients quality of life, stated Kathleen Foley, M.D., professor and neurologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Partners Against Pain advisor. Patients satisfaction with their physicians closely relates to...Rare form of meningitis contracted in Jamaica
...cted by eating the A. cantonensis larvae in raw or inadequately cooked mollusks, such as snails or slugs. Freshwater prawns, fish, frogs, fish and contaminated fresh produce occasionally have been implicated. When the larvae are ingested by humans, they penetrate the vessels of the intestinal tract and eventually...Patients needlessly suffering from chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting
...ssment methods, identification of patients who are inadequately controlled and a thorough review of current treatment approaches are urgently needed," he concluded. The EONS is currently considering the implications of the survey and will be developing a plan of action to support its members in meeting the needs ...XALACOM more effective than Cosopt for IOP reduction in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertens
...Cosopt over three months in patients whose IOP was inadequately controlled on monotherapy. This studys findings underscore the importance of XALACOM in the arsenal of IOP lowering medications, said Dr. Feldman. Fixed combination therapies may be key to improving compliance among patients who do not respond to mo...Landmark study demonstrates potential for nerve regeneration treatment of stroke
...r stroke. "Stroke has been a poorly understood and inadequately treated area of medicine," said Dr. Lanser. "These data offer great hope that we may finally see a breakthrough in treatment that can repair the damage wreaked by stroke."......Africa, but the immediate crisis in Angola remains inadequately addressed, and people continue to die of starvation every day."...Study results offer new hope for people with manic depression
... with about 15% to 20% of people with untreated or inadequately treated bipolar illness attempting suicide3. Seroquel (quetiapine) is manufactured by AstraZeneca and is currently approved in over 75 markets. Seroquel combines broad-based efficacy in the treatment of positive, negative, cognitive and affective sy...D.C. surveillance system considered a model for early disease detection
...S. public health systems have shown they are often inadequately prepared for deliberate attacks with outbreak-causing diseases, say the army's developers of ESSENCE. "We believe that ESSENCE is the largest and one of the first U.S. systems to rely on near-real time, patient-level diagnostic data," they note. Data...Experts welcome major reforms to the coroner's service
... the current system is fragmented, legalistic, and inadequately funded. They welcome the recent review of the coroner's service, and the Shipman inquiry report, which they say "will result in major changes." The review proposes that all coroners should be legally qualified and overall responsibility for the coro...Study suggests common use of investigational breast cancer test
...judgment or an example of premature adoption of an inadequately tested new technology is a question that may only be resolved many years from now when, and if, the ongoing clinical trials of SNB provide definitive data on the outcomes of this technique." In an accompanying editorial, David N. Krag, M.D., of th...Mixed results for study investigating potential of cannabis treatment for MS
...mit its use. In the meantime, when other treatment inadequately controls spasticity, oral cannabinoids should be considered where law permits their possession and use."...Purefecta (TM) drinking water purifier from Pall and Kinetico removes pathogens...
...ase occur primarily due to the use of untreated or inadequately treated drinking water supplies or from contamination in the distribution system after treatment. The EPA reports that 55,000 U.S. community water systems are in need of significant investment to install, repair and upgrade infrastructure to provide ...High level of antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause food poisoning
...orldwide. The most common sources of infection are inadequately cooked meat, particularly poultry, unpasteurised milk and contaminated drinking water. The illness normally clears up after a week, without treatment. But small children and people with a weakened immune system often take antibiotics to prevent the i...