Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
... implementation of clinicaltrials on approaches to managing asthma. The albuterol and placebo for thebeta-agonist study were donated by Schering-Plough, headquartered in Kenilworth,N.J. Hershey served as the data coordinating center for the study which was conductedby investigators from Brigham and Women's H...New Survey Finds Physicians Seek More Clarity In MS Diagnosis And Management
... diagnosing MS, somewhat fewer are asfamiliar with managing the symptoms (84 percent), tracking MS diseaseprogression (77 percent), or treating the actual disease, as opposed to just thesymptoms of the disease (76 percent). "It is imperative that all neurologists understand how best to classifyMS pat...UNC-CH Researchers Learning Ways To Help Black Women Cope With HIV
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...f complimentary medical approaches such as this to managing painsyndromes, as well as other medical conditions, said Gatchel. In fact, JAMAdedicated its entire November 18, 1998 issue to complimentary medicine. There's now also a National Institute of Health Center for Complimentary andAlternative Medicine. ...For Breast Self-Examination, Once A Month Is Quite Enough
.... "A delicate balance needs to be achieved between managing anxiety andmaintaining optimal adherence to breast self-examination," they conclude....Tip Sheet: Think About Your Health In April
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...ul in developing long-termtreatment guidelines for managing patients with chronic depression." The effectiveness of nefazodone alone for treating chronic depression issimilar to that reported for the antidepressants sertraline, imipramine and desipramine. But the studyresults cannot be extr...Older, disabled women have trouble managing pain
..., suggests a need for more effective strategiesfor managing pain in older people. This portrait of pain among older women comes from a report by MarcoPahor, M.D., University of Tennessee, Memphis, Jack M. Guralnik, M.D., Ph.D., atthe NIA, and colleagues, whose findings appear in the June 1999 issue of...Risk factors for women remain high one year after heart surgery
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...severe personality disorder: British proposals for managing them are glaringly wrong - and unethical) Government proposals for detaining indefinitely people with dangerous severe personality disorder masquerade as extensions to mental health services but are in fact unethical proposals for preventive detent......it. He suggests a number of principles towards managing demand and gaining capacity - such as clearing system backlogs, reducing the number of queues and predicting future demand - and highlights organisations that have successfully improved access by adopting these approaches. For instance, a primary car......reases can be significantly lowered by proactively managing the pharmacy benefit; some Express Scripts clients that actively manage their pharmacy benefit program have actually cut their trend in half. The Express Scripts 1999 Drug Trend Report showed that price increases were a major factor, accounting for n......be aware that these elderly patients may need help managing their medications," she noted. Dellasega and Denise Orwig, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Stig Berg, Ph.D., Halsohogskolan, Sweden, and James Walker, M.D., Penn State's College of Medicine, presented their findings, "The Cognitive Consequences of L...