Patients not sticking to cholesterol drugs -- and the higher their co-pay, the lower their use
...ted a quantity called a cumulative multiple-refill interval gap, or CMG, for each patient, to determine what percentage of days the patients were without enough pills to adhere to their treatment regimen. Any patient who was without enough pills for one day out of 10, or 10 percent of the time, w...Study finds dramatic increase in thyroid cancer
...ed is remarkable given the relatively limited time interval since Chernobyl." Additionally, the study points out that children two years and younger at the time of the accident were even more vulnerable, and that their cancers tended to be more invasive and expanded beyond the thyroid gland. A number of nuc...Study examines reasons for late-stage breast cancers
...mmograms would be limited because the incidence of interval cancers--cancers diagnosed after a negative screening mammogram--would not change. "[E]fforts directed at improving the socioeconomic status of women in lower strata might indirectly have a greater effect on reducing breast cancer mortality than effo...Growing epidemic of wet AMD ushers in new era in treatment of the disease
...e two therapies. Additional analyses of treatment interval and drug reflux, two controllable factors that some say negatively affected the results, were presented during the meeting. The company is continuing to analyze the data and plans to submit its New Drug Application to the FDA by the end of the year....Exercise for special populations, sensory research, factors impacting rehabilitation top issues
...lts showed that changes in volume over a 35-minute interval after prosthesis removal were greater than those experienced over a two-week interval. In four of the six volunteers, 95% of the volume increase was reached within eight minutes after prosthesis removal. Results from this study provide a base from wh...News tips for Sunday, November 7, 2004
...l waveform on an electrocardiogram (ECG). The Q-T interval on the ECG represents the duration of time between...97 infants. Among those, 173 (0.8 percent) had Q-T interval greater than 440 millisecond (ms); 17 of these had Q-T interval greater than 470 ms the cutoff poin...Capsules may be effective in treating bipolar disorder
...urements of weight, blood glucose, cholesterol and interval between heartbeats, as well as adverse event monitoring. ERC-CBZ treatment was initiated at 200 milligrams twice daily and titrated, as necessary, by 200 milligrams per day up to 1,600 milligrams per day. The average final dose of ERC-CBZ was 700 m...Study documents decline in rare paralytic disorder linked to influenza vaccination
...ervals from non-GBS reports, with the median onset interval for GBS reports (13 days) being longer than that o...set within the same time interval. "The long onset interval and low prevalence of other preexisting illnesses are consistent with a possible causal association ...Study examines impact of two-year screening interval for breast cancer
...urnal of the National Cancer Institute. The ideal interval between screenings for breast cancer using mammography has not been determined. In the United States, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening with mammography every 1 to 2 years, whereas the American Cancer Society recommends ann...New test possible aid to overcoming barriers to colon cancer screening
...nt examination for colorectal cancer at the proper interval according to Centers for Disease Control. "There are many reasons why people don't get screened for colon cancer," said Dr. Imperiale. "Some individuals do not want colonoscopy because of discomfort despite conscious sedation, its inconvenience, o...Exploring the brain's internal stopwatch
...onses when they systematically varied (1) the time interval of the horizontal motion before vertical movement, (2) the position of the target when it went vertical, and (3) the speed of horizontal target movement. In further tests, the researchers attempted to promote the animals' learning of horizontal di...Rebuilding wounded veterans: Annual review of limb loss & prosthetics research
...lts showed that changes in volume over a 35-minute interval after prosthesis removal were greater than those experienced over a two-week interval. Study results provide a base from which to investigate fluid movement responsible for the shape changes in residual limbs. Pg. 695 Q-TFA reliably measures prosthe...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
...r on a mannequin on two occasions, with a one-week interval between the sessions. Before the second session, the students attended a 15-minute talk on the purpose of the defibrillator, why it has to be used within the first minute of the arrest, and the importance of correct electrode pad positioning. Their r...Rehabilitation can restore some vision after stroke
.... The follow-up examination after a therapy-free interval of more than three years showed that the benefits of VRT remained stable, and vision loss did not occur in most instances. Patients appear to benefit by continuing the training rather than stopping after a certain period of time. "The improvement r...HIV patients may be at risk of heart problems when taking protease inhibitor drugs
...otease inhibitors may predispose individuals to QT interval problems or torsade de pointes," Dr. Badley says. Dr. Ackerman adds, "Long QT-adverse events are serious side effects in drugs, but with extra caution from physicians, this risk that we've identified can be managed, and that's the good news." Collab...How often should women get mammograms?
...of 40 years. "We're not advocating any particular interval for mammography screening," says Sandra Lee, ScD, a biostatistician at Dana-Farber who developed the model along with Marvin Zelen, PhD, of Dana-Farber and the Harvard School of Public Health. "This is a preliminary tool to show policymakers the kind...The impact of cruciate ligament rupture on osteoarthritis of the knee
...e of the study's authors, Catherine L. Hill. "The interval between ACL injury and significant knee symptoms may be as long as 30 years, providing one explanation for the low recall of significant knee injury in our study." On the strength of their common occurrence among...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...to be especially clinically relevant, for the time interval between 3 and 12 hours after onset of chest pain or other symptoms, on the basis of its superior preservation of myocardium. Furthermore, with increasing time to presentation, major-adverse-cardiac-event rates increase after thrombolysis, but appear...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
...anicolaou (Pap) smears every three years, the same interval as HIV-negative women, according to a study in the...have been recently updated and now advise using an interval of 3 years between screenings in healthy women 30 years or older who have normal cytology (cells) re...