Georgia Medicaid program saves $20 million by controlling use of anti-ulcer drugs
...LOUIS, JAN. 14, 2005 The Georgia Medicaid program reduced its prescription-drug costs by $20.6 million over a one-year period by requiring enrollees to get permission before filling prescriptions for anti-ulcer medications called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The savings were reported in a study published ...Number of adults with high blood pressure set to soar by 2025
...ns that have proven effective include weight loss, reduced salt intake, moderating alcohol consumption, potassium supplementation, modification of eating habits, and increased physical activity." Dr He concludes: "The magnitude of the burden of hypertension needs not only an increase in awareness, treatment...New study reveals treatment for 'silent killer' using diet, not drugs
...tific review shows that high blood pressure can be reduced with diet changes, especially a vegetarian diet. T...re is lowered, vegetarian populations experience a reduced risk of stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure "Many people fear the side effects of blood pressur...Colorectal cancer screening underutilized
... adults. The premise is mortality and morbidity is reduced when a premalignant growth, which is generally at an earlier stage, is detected and treated. Clinicians can use tests as simple as the fecal occult blood test (FOBT), which is the cheapest but least sensitive test, to tests that examine part of the c...Macular degeneration patients benefit from self-management training
...o did not participate in the program. Benefits of reduced distress and improved function were still seen in those who had participated in the self-management program compared with the control group. And, the incidence of depression in the control group had grown to more than twice that of the self-manageme...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
... would offer many advantages for general lighting: reduced electrical energy consumption, reduced carbon-related pollution, increased lifetime, and so on. There are numerous research approaches to ...Orqis receives FDA approval to expand clinical trial of Cancion CRS therapy to 40 centers
...tudies will also focus on hemodynamic improvement, reduced ventricular and atrial volumes and improved renal function, as well as whether the CRS therapy may have a sustained effect after removal, offering hope for potential therapeutic recovery. ...Jefferson scientists find zinc may help prevent esophageal, oral cancers
... the deficient rats, COX-2 expression was markedly reduced and the precancerous cellular proliferation was reversed.The rats lacking dietary zinc were also treated with COX-2 inhibitors, celecoxib (Celebrex) and indomethacin. They found that the rats treated with the COX-2 inhibitors had a reduction in both ...Workers with carpal tunnel find relief with night-time splinting
...nted group, participants with healthy nerves noted reduced hand/wrist discomfort, while those with injured nerves felt no improvement over time. Those who used the splint both with healthy and injured nerves saw significant improvement in hand/wrist discomfort, and participants who initially reported highe...Study finds that adherence to diet, not type of diet, more important factor for losing weight
...erved in study completers. Each diet significantly reduced the low-density lipoprotein/high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ratio by approximately 10 percent with no significant effects on blood pressure or glucose at 1 year. Amount of weight loss was associated with self-reported dietary adherence lev...Stanford study shows hypnosis helps kids undergoing difficult procedure
...doll. According to the paper, the use of hypnosis reduced the procedure's duration from an average of 50 minutes down to 35. Although children in the study did not report experiencing less fear or pain after hypnosis, researchers suggested that this result might be due to kids' desire to assert their disple...Surgical treatment of migraines reduces sick days and increases employee productivity ASPS study
...yers also suffer through missed days from work and reduced productivity. However, Migraine sufferers who had surgical treatment reduced the amount of time missed from work by 73 percent, according to a study published in the January iss...Exercise combats metabolic syndrome in older adults
... risk factor for heart and metabolic syndrome, was reduced by 20 percent among people in the exercising group. The group that was not exercising had either no or significantly less improvement than the exercising group. At the beginning of the study, 43 percent of all participants had the metabolic syndrome...Pegaptanib provides benefit for neovascular age-related macular degeneration
... benefit in the treatment of wet AMD. "Overall, a reduced risk of visual-acuity loss was observed with all d...ime up to week 54," the authors write. "Pegaptanib reduced the chance of not only the loss of 15 letters or more of visual acuity (considered a moderate loss) ...Veterans in better health than other residents of nursing homes, new test for evaluating tinnitus
...nd that using less current during cycling sessions reduced muscle fatigue and improved cycling performance. I...he residual limb. The data revealed that stress is reduced at the socket-limb interface when a more flexible shank is used, providing a more comfortable fit. ...Triple-drug therapy promising against African HIV subtype
...lity. Since the triple-drug regimens have markedly reduced the morbidity and mortality associated with the subtype that predominates in developed countries (subtype B), the implication is that they may be similarly effective against the C subtype in developing countries as well. The authors, Edana Cassol and...Maintaining physical activity linked to less cognitive decline in older men
...over 10 years the cognitive decline in men who had reduced their daily physical activity by an hour or more was 2.6 times greater than the decline in men who maintained their activity. Men who performed their daily physical activity with a lower intensity 10 years later had a 3.6 times stronger decline than ...Decreased sensitivity in the brain to estrogen may help explain menopausal changes
...terns in groups 2 and 3 suggest different kinds of reduced sensitivity to estrogen (or abnormal estrogen "feedback") in the brain. Interestingly, the women in the third group had significantly more hot flashes and night sweats than women in the other two groups. These findings suggest that the hormonal pa...Country's first 'simplified maze' using new ultrasound technology is done at Northwestern Memorial
...se of abnormal electrical activity. AF results in reduced cardiac output, exacerbates heart failure and can lead to stroke or other neurological problems. AF affects more than six million people worldwide. "Ultrasound technology dramatically simplifies the Maze procedure, eliminates the need to stop the he...Medicare HMOs fail to control costs of colon surgery in elderly patients
...da patients hospitalized for colon surgery are not reduced by Medicare HMOs, report University of South Flori...ed rates of high-cost surgical procedures were not reduced among Medicare HMO enrollees. More research is warranted to determine why daily hospital charges wer...