Liverpool to lead 20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
Many of the medicines used to treat children have been designed for adul...als use their skill and judgement when prescribing medicines for children but uncertainty can result in inappropriate dosing or inadequate efficacy. The initiat...Doctor suggested cannabis for pain relief, says one in six medicinal users in the UKMUHC study
...t to the further development of safe and effective medicines based on cannabis" says lead author Dr Mark Ware principal investigator and pain physician at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Pain Centre. People with chronic pain were most likely to use cannabis for medicinal purposes (25 percent) follow...Vitamin E may not prevent cancer or cardiovascular events, but may increase risk for heart failure
...itamins, other natural products, and complementary medicines in appropriately designed trials before they are widely used for presumed health benefits."...Drug companies and governments must act on fake drug problem
...f counterfeiting. The recent discovery of fake HIV medicines in Central Africa "raises the prospect of a disastrous setback in the treatment of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, unless vigorous action is taken now," say the authors. As the second Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anticounterfeiting gets underway in Pa...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
..., to help them understand and "take charge" of the medicines and lifestyle changes that could improve their health. Both men and women who had this session, and signed a discharge contract with their doctors and nurses that included a pledge to stick to treatment and follow-up appointments, lived longer than t...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
...roduction of HAART. Access to these revolutionary medicines and the medical services required to deliver and m...ernment should guarantee access to these essential medicines for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS." The two leading HIV medical associations collectively r...St. John's wort amplifies effect of blood thinner Plavix
...e way that prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines are," he says. "Research on drug-drug and drug-herbal interactions is still in its early stages, but we know that 20 percent or more of Americans regularly take complementary herbs and supplements. The important thing is for doctors and patients to t...Chlamydia testing in pharmacies: Questions that need addressing
...ts: "Although pharmacists are experts in providing medicines and guidance about their use, will adequate training and staffing be available to explain the testing process and the meaning of the results, be they positive or negative? How will the testing process be linked to the provision of follow up for those...Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
... Srisurapanont notes that the availability of both medicines now gives patients an alternative if one is not effective for them. And, he adds, the possible benefits of using the medications in combination should be studied. The review also notes that other areas ripe for future study include the possible benef...COX-2 product offers good and bad news in 'test tube' strokes
...lates that PGD2 may provide a potential target for medicines to combat conditions involving brain damage, including stroke, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. In these neurologic diseases, nerve cell death is thought to be carried out in part by a huge release of glutamate, an important signaling mo...Transport system smuggles medicines into brain
...rine Visser investigated a new way of transporting medicines into the brain. Her approach made use of an iron t...ng protein transferrin. This technique allowed the medicines to 'hitch a lift' and pass unnoticed though the BBB. How much medicine reaches the brain depends on ...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...pate in clinical trials," Chang says. "Alternative medicines are chemicals and they can have interactions with other medications. Patients and their physicians need to keep that in mind when assessing symptoms and side effects of medications." Chang hopes that the data gathered in this study will be used as a...First US kidney cancer vaccine trial underway at Columbia
...ancer. About Trovax Trovax belongs to a class of medicines called a vaccine. Trovax consists of a virus that has been changed so that it is no longer infectious and carries a gene for a protein called 5T4. This protein is carried by many kidney cancer calls. When the virus is injected, it makes the protein, ...Beliefs may hinder HIV prevention among African-Americans
...n Americans surveyed felt that people who take new medicines for HIV are human guinea pigs for the government; 26.6 percent said AIDS was produced in a government laboratory; 48.2 percent believed that HIV is a man-made virus; 15.2 percent said AIDS is a form of genocide against blacks."We need more open di...Communication between primary-care physicians and patients can reduce medication-related problems
...Es) instances of injury arising from prescription medicines in patients across the country, the authors suggest. "In an earlier study, we tracked ADEs in a group of patients being treated in primary-care practices. We expected that the same percentage of outpatients would have ADEs as had been found in stud...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...nority populations tend not to carry narcotic pain medicines such as morphine. Green hopes that the new study, and others in the special issue of Pain Medicine, will continue to draw the attention of pain researchers and plant the seeds for further research in this area. "These findings are particularly impor...Vioxx went mostly to patients who didn't need it, Stanford researcher says
...etting prescriptions for Vioxx, Celebrex and other medicines in their class, known as COX-2 inhibitors. The overuse of these drugs is documented in a study published in the Jan. 25 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine by Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Universit...FDA approves Pfizer's Lyrica for the treatment of the two most common forms of neuropathic pain
... confirms our leadership in bringing life-changing medicines to patients." Neuropathic pain, one of the most debilitating forms of pain, is caused by nerve damage that can result from underlying conditions, such as diabetes or shingles. Nearly half of the 18 million Americans with diabetes will develop some f...Endoscopic sinus surgery is safe, effective in older patients
...not neglect sinus problems in the elderly; that if medicines don't work, we have a surgical technique that is not that invasive and results in good outcomes," says Dr. Stilianos E. Kountakis, otolaryngologist, vice chair of the Medical College of Georgia Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and ......examined the literature to find the most effective medicines to treat migraine attacks and to prevent attacks for children with frequent migraines. The authors determined that there is insufficient evidence to make recommendations concerning use of preventive agents such as cyproheptadine, amitriptyline, dival...