FDA approves Pfizer's Lyrica for the treatment of the two most common forms of neuropathic pain
...d substance in a category with lower potential for misuse or abuse relative to controlled substances in other categories. Lyrica is currently under review by the FDA for the adjunctive treatment of partial seizures in adults. In July, Pfizer received European Commission approval to market Lyrica in European...Sex habits of young women unchanged by morning after pill, UCSF study finds
...ed access to emergency contraception could lead to misuse by young women, this study -- like all the published literature indicates that is not the case. The study was conducted from July 2001 to June 2003 at four clinics in San Francisco and Daly City, California. The study enrolled women who spoke either...Study explores antibiotic misuse
... a still-better handle on the extent of antibiotic misuse and the efficacy of educational programs designed to curb it. MCG Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Augusta are among 16 hospitals nationally participating in the four-year study. The first year looked at baseline antib...Policy-makers should enhance selection process for Presidential S&T appointments
...qualified people to high-ranking S&T positions, or misuse of the federal advisory committee system, would compromise the government's effectiveness on important issues," said John E. Porter, chair of the committee that wrote the report and a partner at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP, Washington, D.C., ...Researchers develop new ways to predict number of drug users
...in people aged 15-44, which had been coded as drug misuse or accidental opiate overdose, and used a back calculation method to estimate long term trends. The results suggested that there have been two epidemic periods with the numbers of new opiate and injecting drug users having increased three-fold betwe...Good parenting protects against chronic illness says professor of public health
... prevention of teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol misuse and childhood obesity." "Fortunately it is possible to help parents develop their parenting and the . potential health impact of programmes that support parenting is yet to be widely appreciated"...News briefs from the journal Chest, October 2004
...sing medication levels in asthma inhalers, causing misuse of the medication. North Carolina researchers questioned 50 patients or their parents on their understanding of inhaler use and what methods they use to determine the fullness level of their pressurized metered-dose inhaler. Results showed that 78 ...Offending by psychiatric patients is rare
...n with offending was previous offending. Substance misuse and sexual abuse were associated with increased offending risk, although patients were less likely to be convicted after a lengthy admission or if they had a history of self harm. Aftercare is also effective in preventing reconviction. The rate of vi...Action needed to tackle drug related crime
...olent crimes are committed by people who seriously misuse alcohol or drugs, finds a study from Sweden in thi... 1998 to 2000 to calculate the impact of substance misuse on violent crime in the Swedish population. During 1998-2000, 16% of all violent crimes in Sweden we...Missed alcohol diagnoses in hospital patients
...p many individuals avail themselves of the alcohol misuse therapies from which they might benefit." The new research builds on a study concluded last year by NIAAA's Barbara A. Smothers, Ph.D., and Harold T. Yahr, Ph.D. In that study, the researchers surveyed data from more than 2,000 people who participat...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 6, 2004
...ce recommends screening and counseling for alcohol misuse in adults but not adolescents. The Task Force found good evidence that screening for misuse of alcohol, and behavioral counseling to reduce alcohol misuse, is effective in adults, including pr...Internists to screen for alcohol misuse on April 8
(April 5, 2004) Alcohol misuse and abuse is often a hidden problem, even from a patient's physician. The American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of doctors of internal medicine, has asked its members to take a few minutes on Thursday, April 8, to screen all...Rise in stranger homicides not linked to mental illness
...ide is more often associated with alcohol and drug misuse than with severe mental illness, say the authors. ...lace greater emphasis on reducing alcohol and drug misuse in this group, they conclude....Painkiller linked to rise in overdose deaths
...ggests that the rising death toll is mainly due to misuse of methadone prescribed for pain relief. While 40 tablets cost as little as $5 on Medicaid, each tablet can be worth $10 to $20 if sold on the black market. Reports from Oklahoma back this up. Ronald Distefano, from the state's Office of the Chief ...New flu vaccine provides insight into immunity development
...emely virulent pathogen that could be a target for misuse as an instrument of bioterrorism. In fact, the vaccine study was funded by a National Institutes of Health bioterrorism grant. "Understanding respiratory tract immunity has great relevance for biodefense in that the general mechanisms involved can be...College students may be drinking more alcohol than even they realize
...h, nor for those of us trying to deal with alcohol misuse on college campuses. The scale of the problem could be bigger than we thought." "The fact that many students probably consume more alcohol than their survey responses suggest could help explain some of our previous findings about the consequences of...HFES Annual Meeting papers feature work on critical health and safety issues
...detects whether hackers can break into a system or misuse it. The results of the study reveal ways in which HFVA can be improved to help prevent loss of data, service, and money. DRIVING Identification of an "Appropriate" Drowsy Driver Detection Interface for Commercial Vehicle OperationsEllen M. Ayoob, ...Looking at pesticide labels through multi-colored glasses
... design, Smith-Jackson said. Examples of pesticide misuse include: using too much pesticide (either too strong of a concentration or applying it too often), using an outdoor pesticide indoors, failing to follow the restricted time for reentering an area after a pesticide has been applied, or failing to wea...Opioids should be considered for relief of chronic lower back pain
...or patients and physicians due to controversy over misuse and potential drug dependence. "Opioids are some of the most underused drugs around because of the possibility of abuse," says Mike Joyner, M.D., Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist. "Opioids are wonderful drugs, but because of the abuse problem and moral......l incidence of 2.5 per 100,000 population. Alcohol misuse was the presumed cause in 67% of cases identified by the research team. This apparent increase might be the result of increasing alcohol consumption, but available evidence does not show any notable increase in the total national alcohol consumption ...