Prescription Counseling Necessary For Hospital Patients
... time, making it difficult to see a patient before he orshe is released... "The critical point is when the patient is dischargedinto the community," Schommer said. "The hospital's no longer ...Doctors And Patients Should Co-Sign Prescriptions
...his concordance model for the relationship between patient and prescriber should ensure that decisions on prescribing are made jointly, with both parties in agreement and with responsibility shared." Contact: Dr Joe Collier, Reader and Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology or Professor Sean Hilton, Professor ...Treatment For Cancer May No Longer Be As Grim As The Disease
...thetumour is too close to an artery or because the patient is too weak to survivethe operation. Sometimes che...se drugs kill healthy cells, too, and can make the patient feel very ill. So radiologist John McGahan and oncologist Philip Schneider of the University ofCalif...Changes In Care Lower Costs Of Surgery To Prevent Stroke
...ecoming inefficient or compromising the quality of patient care, as isproven by the decrease in complications associated with strokes in the study,"says Liliana Smurawska, M.D., of the stroke research unit at the SunnybrookHealth Science Center, University of Toronto, Canada. If carotid endarterectomy is per......orresponse rates and could result in a substantial patient benefit. To date,several platinum protecting agents have been developed by others, but all havesuffered from the problem of trading a reduction in platinum-associated drugtoxicities for newly-introduced toxicities of their own. The Seminars in Onco...New Short-Acting Anesthetics Cut Recovery Time
...e study. Speeding recovery time not only increased patient satisfaction, but alsoproduced annual savings rang... relieve pain after surgery, the techniqueimproves patient comfort by replacing or reducing the need for narcotics, whichcan impede recovery because they can c...Human Patient Simulator Assists Training Physicians In New Drug
A Penn State researcher has shown that a robotic patient simulator can be aneffective stand-in to teach doc...ently conducted physician training programs usinga patient simulator and the relatively new drug, remifentanil, an anestheticmanufactured by Glaxo Wellcome. T......e cancercenters nationwide. As such, it excels in patient care and in cancer detection,diagnosis, prevention and treatment. UPCI is internationally recognized forbringing laboratory research findings to the clinic where patients have theadvantage of exceptional treatment opportunities. rmc/10-21-98...UCSF Recruting Breast Cancer Patients For Herbal Therapy Study
... is a double-blind study, meaning that neither the patient nor thedoctor will know who is receiving the herbal treatment or placebo. Allparticipants will receive standard (non-herbal) supportive treatments for sideeffects of chemotherapy, including anti-nausea and pain medications.Women who are eligible fo...Hormone Therapy Increases Survival Of High Risk Prostate Cancer Patients
... on a patient'ssurvival rate compared to that of a patient who only received radiotherapy.Short-term therapy ...it is difficult toprovide an informed consent to a patient and for them to make the best treatmentdecisions." Informed consent is a required part of the consul......sult is not recorded in a medical chart that has a patient name. Theanonymous testing procedure was developed because of the stigma of AIDS in theearly days of the epidemic and concerns that there would be breaches in theconfidentiality of the medical chart. At present, 40 states have publicly funded anonym...Liver Rejection Can Be Managed Long-Term In Children Switched To Tacrolimus
...jection. But for children with chronic rejection, patient survival was67 percent, and graft survival was 57 percent at six years. The advantages oftacrolimus (formerly known as FK506 and now marketed as Prograf) were alsoevident by virtue of the fact that 84 percent of the patients could be weaned off ster......ansplantation, the overall one-year and seven-year patient survival was 84percent and 66 percent, respectively. Survival rates for a subgroup of 91children remained at 91 percent after seven years, the highest among thedifferent age groupings. Survival rates for the other groups were alsoreported: 75 infa...Changing Drug Delivery For Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Increases Effectiveness, Lowers Costs
... medication. Overall, the average cost per patient per week for those treated orallywas $16.56. That compares to just $3.57 for those treated by injection. The costthen for treating these 52 patients for one year would be nearly $45,000compared to less than $10,000 for the group treated by injection....Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...kes falling asleep difficult yetdoesn't awaken the patient during the night. Grushka's study tested the effec...lonazepam offered no relief. When Grushka compared patient age, history of BMS, and final dose levels among these threegroups, she found that patients in the g...Pairing Two Drugs With Angioplasty May Offer Best Success In Treating Heart Attacks
...astest andsafest way to open clogged arteries in a patient experiencing a heart attack. Itwas conducted in 61 hospitals with 305 patients from the U.S., Germany, Italy,Spain and Australia. SPEED was funded by Centocor and Eli Lilly, manufacturersof abciximab and reteplase. SPEED is the first trial to......But this is the first to show marked improvementin patient delay all across the country." During the 1990s, m... Although the REACT campaign was unable to shorten patient delay further, thestudy saw an rise in the number of people with heart attack symptoms coming tothe ...