New data on the effect of Atacand(R) on NYHA class in a broad spectrum of heart failure patients
... use of Atacand in heart failure during the second quarter 2004. *Candesartan in Heart failure - Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) study programme...Dads miss opportunity to learn about their kids
...milies of culturally diverse backgrounds. About a quarter of the fathers surveyed said their boss wouldn't give them time off from work to attend their child's routine medical exams. About 60 percent said they were more likely to accompany their child to the doctor when their employer was supportive or made...Bar characteristics, women's behavior in bars tied to their risk for bar-related aggression
...ng overt drug use (43 percent), with more than one quarter having drug sales (28 percent) and gambling (29 percent). Sixty-eight percent of the women were white; 26 percent were black. Seventy-two percent had some college education and 58 percent had never been married. Eighty-six percent of the subjects wer...Manual techniques may ease tough deliveries without need for episiotomy
...rcent of births, Gurewitsch estimates, and up to a quarter of these deliveries can result in an injury to the baby's brachial plexus, the nerves that control movement and sensation in the arm. Up to 10 percent of infants who sustain such an injury can wind up with permanent damage. Gurewitsch and col...Mad cow has confidence stirred, but not shaken
...s of mad cow are found, while a little more than a quarter said it will take more than six months. "Our findings suggests that most who have given up beef in the short term may be grilling steaks again this summer," says Dr. Calum Turvey, agricultural economist and head of the Food Policy Institute at Rutg...Physicians can help family members caring for dying loved ones
...y family members, partners and friends. "About one quarter of adults in the United States report providing informal caregiving, including helping with transportation, shopping, house work, emotional support, nutritional care, personal care and financial management," he said. "Because this trend is likely to ...Drop in hormone therapy use shows physicians heed clinical trial findings, Stanford researchers say
.... Alpha-blocker prescriptions peaked in the fourth quarter of 1999 at nearly 4.4 million and declined to 4.2 million in the first quarter of 2000 when the clinical trial results were announced. Prescriptions continued to decline, reaching...Palliative care for dying children
...93 people under 25 died within the study period. A quarter of these suffered from long-term illnesses; a quarter were less than a year old. The researchers were interested in finding out how best to identify patie...Study finds fewer than half of early stage breast cancer patients get full chemotherapy doses
... manage neutropenia, researchers found that only a quarter of the patients received them during chemotherapy. Most were prescribed in reaction to neutropenia, rather than as a preventative or prophylactic measure. "Far too many patients are not receiving the chemotherapy doses they need in order to have ...USP's hospital medication error report supports key patient safety goals
...ates. It is estimated that by the end of the third quarter of 2004, the MEDMARX database could approach one million records....Parents who decline autopsies may miss out on vital information
...rwent autopsy fell from 84% to 67%. In more than a quarter of cases, where the prenatal diagnosis was by ultrasound scan alone, the autopsy provided important information that changed the estimated risk of recurrence. In 8% of cases this was increased to a high (one in four) risk. By declining an autopsy, pa...PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC receives FDA approval for Plenaxis
...l product shipment targeted for early in the first quarter of 2004." Plenaxis TM - Pharmacology Currently ...he Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003. Plenaxis TM and the PLUS Program TM are trademarks of PRAECIS PHARMACEUT...USP releases fourth annual report on medication errors in U.S. hospitals
... 530,000 released records. By the end of the third quarter of 2004, the number of records in the MEDMARX database will approach one million. MEDMARX is a national, Internet-accessible anonymous reporting database that hospitals and health care systems use to track and trend medication errors. Hospitals and h...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, November 18, 2003
...h insurance, and 40 percent opposed it. Nearly one quarter (26 percent) supported a program in which the government would pay for all health care. Support for national health insurance varied by specialty, location and practice setting. Doctors were most likely to back national health insurance if they pract...Survey on total cardiovascular risk shows significant gap between patient education and action
...d 45-64 have some form of heart disease. Also, one quarter (26%) of adults believe that thin people are healthier than overweight people. This survey was conducted as a result of concerns raised by cardiovascular experts who were recently brought together by The Pfizer Journal® for a roundtable discussi...UK trial results on value of cannabis for multiple sclerosis patients
...ents said spasticity had improved, but just over a quarter of these patients said they felt their symptoms had got worse. Overall, more patients taking active treatment said they experienced improvement in spasticity, pain, spasms and sleep compared to those taking placebo. The researchers said that the resu...The statin wars: Why AstraZeneca must retreat
...ported a 17% drop in pre-tax profits in the second quarter of this year. After a damaging delay over safety concerns, rosuvastatin finally won US FDA approval in August and was launched last month, winning a 2% market share after only three weeks. [Tom] McKillop [AstraZeneca's Chief Executive] has pledged to...Time to stop exploiting trust doctors
Almost a quarter of non-consultant doctors in the UK are being recr...nd what the doctors in these jobs do. Just under a quarter of non-consultant advertisements were for non-standard grade posts. Half of these posts are created ...Hispanics face high rates of unstable health care coverage, low rates of preventive care
...1% of that age group in the total population. One quarter of Hispanics ages 50-64 went without needed care (did not fill a prescription or skipped a needed medical test, treatment or follow-up) due to costs. "Lack of insurance, unstable coverage, language barriers, and low income all contribute to the grow...Unusual form of memory loss often confused for Alzheimer's disease
... England Journal of Medicine reports that nearly a quarter of all dementias, especially those of presenile onset, may be caused by diseases other than Alzheimer's disease and that some of these so-called atypical dementias involve cognitive abnormalities in areas other than memory. Mesulam is Ruth and Evel...