Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
...ting common adult sleep disorders. This completely revised edition of Sleeping Through the Night also presents updated advice from Dr. Mindell including: Giving newborns the right start on sleep Handling nursing and sleep Solving nap problems Information on cosleeping and making changes in sleeping arr...Penn researchers add more evidence to demonstrate role of COX inhibitors in heart-disease risk
... figures from this study are now incorporated in a revised drug label for Bextra available at the FDA website (www.fda.gov). This result is consistent with the original mechanism proposed by FitzGerald in 1999 that COX-2 inhibitors may be problematic for those at risk for heart disease. COX-2 is the main sou...Complementary and alternative therapies and conventional medical therapies
...roader regulatory scheme for supplements should be revised to create incentives for privately funded research on the effectiveness of products and brands and on how consumers use these products....Drivers with epilepsy are on the road again
...pilepsy organizations and individuals, the Act was revised to allow PWE to obtain a driving license after a seizure-free period of two years. In order to survey the effect of these new driving regulations, questionnaires were sent to driving authorities and doctors of the Japanese Epilepsy Society (JES). ...Potentially fatal toxicities occur with off-label use of cancer drugs
...with some cancer drugs -- policies that should be revised immediately, according to Northwestern University researchers. Andrew M. Evens, D.O., instructor in medicine, and Charles L. Bennett, M.D., professor of medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, have called for an immediate rev...Updated press release to October 2004 Cochrane Review
...ibrary (2) in the future. It is expected that the revised results will be published in April 2005. Interactive Health Communication Applications (IHCAs) are computer-based interactive programmes for patients that combine health information with at least one mode of support social support, decision support ...People on food stamps can't afford heart-healthy meals
...of model seven-day menus was developed, tested and revised based on focus group discussions about household food preferences, preparation, cost and access issues. The menus were translated into shopping lists, and food prices were collected at two large local grocery stores where focus group members shopped...Study finds nearly 60% of American adults may have elevated blood pressure
...f suffering the condition, as measured by recently revised high blood pressure classifications. The finding, reported in the Oct. 25 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, comes from nationally representative health data analyzed by two University of Illinois at Chicago researchers. Youfa Wang, an a...Outstanding efficacy of Crestor (TM) in treating range of patient populations at risk of CVD
...ent of cardiovascular disease worldwide. Recently revised evidence-based guidelines set a series of targets for LDL-C reduction, which vary according to the overall risk category of the patient; the higher the patient's risk of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack or stroke, the lower the LDL-C goal....CRESTOR leads in 1st international prospective study of statins in the metabolic syndrome
... III (US NCEP ATP III) guidelines and the recently revised European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice. 4-6 Sub-group analyses of long-term studies have also shown that statin treatment in people with the metabolic syndrome can reduce cardiovascular events. 7,8 The COMET...Intranasal corticosteroid receives FDA pregnancy Category B rating for allergic rhinitis
...S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved revised labeling for its anti-inflammatory corticosteroid ... MD, Executive Director, Clinical Research. "This revised labeling for RHINOCORT AQUA should provide reassurance to patients who are, or who may become pregna...Hospital standards for high-risk surgeries save lives
...s to reflect surgical volumes only. New standards, revised in 2003, consider additional measures of quality, such as mortality rates. Researchers at UMHS evaluated whether patients would fare better after surgery if they were treated exclusively at hospitals that met these new criteria. "Patients ...Health education PhD program ranked one of top in nation
...t, responded to the study. This latest study was a revised version of the 2000 study rating the academic quality of such programs for the first time. The USF College of Public Health ranked second overall among 29 respondents, just behind the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The college...Average blood pressure levels on rise among American children/teenagers
...Academic Societies (PAS) in San Francisco, include revised blood pressure tables and updated recommendations ... blood pressure database and reexamined to develop revised normative blood pressure tables. The updated tables now include the 50th, 90th, 95th, and 99th perc...Two better than one where lowering blood pressure is concerned
...renin levels are low. The BHS guidelines were last revised in 1999. Specialists in the field representing over 12 different stakeholder organisations including the British Hearth Foundation, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the UK Department of Health contributed to the latest guidelines....Statins could reduce stroke risk by a third
...d international treatment guidelines should now be revised so that stroke risk reductions are taken into account when the initiation of statin therapy is being considered."...Potential genetic links discovered between metabolic syndrome, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
...ight dexamethasone suppression test (DST), using a revised criterion for cortisol suppression, which maximized sensitivity to the procedure. This more sensitive test identified patients who would not have tested positive for CS using standard tests. "Our study demonstrated a relatively high prevalence o...WHO accused of huge HIV blunder
...cher on HIV at the WHO in Geneva and author of the revised study, says the apparent change of view arises because a statistical technique used in the 2002 draft is inappropriate for HIV. The reviewed studies calculate a "population attributable fraction", the proportion of infections in the population due t...Duke leaders propose overhaul of health care and the practice of medicine
...se to effectively preventing or minimizing it. The revised health-care system should be built on a prospective approach to medicine that emphasizes personal health planning, say co-authors Ralph Snyderman, M.D., president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, and R. Sanders Williams, M.D., dean of th...... 3,000 words and phrases; nearly a third have been revised and updated from the first edition, published in 1997. The book includes common words and expressions such as hangnail, under the weather, and hair of the dog. Hangnail, Dr. Haubrich writes, " has nothing to do with hanging. It is derived from the O...