Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
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... a limitededucation and few economic resources are more likely to die, but now researchersat Duke Universi...come of lessthan $10,000 per year also were older, more likely to be female and had morehypertension. Frequently, these patients are living on a fixed incom...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...thatTTP as a side effect of ticlopidine occurs far more frequently than in thegeneral population, and the mortality rate may be as high as 33 percent. The Northwestern study also found that mortality was almost 50 percentfor those older than 60, but only 16 percent in those younger than 60. Onere...Keeping Score On Doctors: Report Says Flaws In Counting Must Be Addressed To Ensure Accuracy
...nabout patient outcomes. They say such data, while more standardized thanhandwritten physician charts, often are not a clear reflection of quality ofcare or outcomes. Jollis and Romano argue that it is particularly crucial for agenciesrating doctors to account for differences among patient...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
... carecommittee and a co-author of the report. "The more we show that this is not sucha scary concept, the harder it's going to be for naysayers to argue. Commonsense may carry the day to help some states to move forward on changing these'Good Samaritan' laws." "Good Samaritan" laws refer to leg...Warfarin Continues To Be Underused As Stroke Preventive
...unts for about 80,000 strokes annually. Achieving more widespreaduse of warfarin, the researchers estimate, could prevent at least 10,000 strokesa year. The researchers examined how frequently patients with atrial fibrillationreceived prescriptions for warfarin, based on data from the National Ambulato...Need For HIV Guidelines For Health Workers In Developing Countries
...undertaking their elective) and therefore they are more likely to inadvertently expose themselves to blood and other body fluids. With such effective post-exposure prophylaxis available, if an in-country employer is not able to afford the cost and storage of such drugs then should health workers be giv...Fat: It's Not For Breakfast Anymore; Study Finds Fat Linked To Clotting
DALLAS, April 10 -- A new study gives one more reason why you may bebetter off beginning the morning with a breakfast of low-fat yogurt, cereal orjuice instead of toast slathered with margarine or a croissant. A study of 91 elderly women reported in this month's Arteriosclerosis,Thrombosi...Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
Alternative health care is becoming more acceptable to Americans because of their concernfo...leave the citycrowds and pollution for places with more amenities." Alternative healers are here to stay, Gordon says, and will probably increase in...Protecting Breast Feeding From Breast Milk Substitutes
...sts that monitoring for overt violations should be more systematic in an attempt to deter such promotional... public opinion towards breast feeding may be even more crucial. He says that training midwives and doctors in lactation counselling (including guidance fo...Procter & Gamble Supports Yale University Collaboration For Public Health Training Throughout China
...improve the quality of life here. P&G has provided more than $5 million for education, health care, enviro...dwide sales of $35.8 billion.P&G has operations in more than 70 countries, and markets more than 300 brandsin more than 140 countries....Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
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...sease, cancer, or diabetes;the condition occurs in more than 40,000 people in the U.S. eachyear. Physicians found no statistically significant difference inthe rate of death or amputation, whether patients receivedconventional surgical treatments or the drug. Moreover, thelength of hospital stay was ......ure infants on aventilator at two weeks of age was more effective than waiting until four weeksof age. Bab...ge. Moreover, both groups of infants gained weight more slowly and had slower headgrowth while they received dexamethasone. The authors questioned whetherc......eek's BMJ. The authors found it was significantly more effective (150 per cent) in producing a cure than the more traditional medication, sodium stibogluconate, to which the disease is becoming increasingly resista...International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
...n of Cyclosporine designed to provideincreased and more reliable absorption of the medication. These findingssuggest that Neoral has clinical advantages, which may translate into improved outcomes for heart transplant recipients. In 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Neoral for thepreve..."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
...ons could offer life-saving traumacare to hundreds more severely injured people every year. More Ways To...nt to be an evaluation of Maryland. Rather, it was more of aprobationary demonstration of TRAMAH's adaptability to any state. Furtherresearch, including the...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...heart attack risk. The scientists concluded that more might begained by reducing LDL to very low levels,...sage that the statin drugs cansaves lives and that more individuals with heart disease need to take them, hesays. "Most coronary heart disease patients whos...