Study shows drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex were widely over-used long before recent problems
...mes as much as the drugs they replaced. Within a year of being introduced, these drugs were bringing in ...i-inflammatory prescriptions examined in 1999, the year they were introduced, to 61 percent by 2001. They also found that most people who received prescript...Technology that could double the effectiveness of cancer drugs studied at Yale
...ete in June 2005, with results available about one year later. The Yale clinical trial is led by Thomas Rutherford, M.D., associate professor of gynecology at Yale School of Medicine....Yale cardiovascular researcher named Bayer Fellow 2004-05
...cine and Management, Yale awards a fellowship each year to a faculty member who is making significant advances in medicine or health care management. Of particular interest are the areas of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular health, infectious diseases, men's health and medical economics and marketing. Bay...Study confirms ICDs more effective in preventing sudden cardiac death than medical therapies
...ial. The results of studies completed in the last year will increase the number of patients who can benef... Mother magazine and has been chosen by Chicagoans year after year as their "most preferred hospital" in National Research Corporation's annual survey. Abo...New research shows heroin use falling across Scotland
...azepines had fallen from 55,800 in 2000 the first year for which a reliable estimate was established - to...all of 7.6%. The research, which focuses on 15-54 year olds, shows a fall in the estimated number of Scots who are taking particularly damaging drugs like ...Cord blood transplantation now a viable option for adult leukemia patients
...cells. Disease-free survival was 57 percent at one year and, for those who received the transplant while their cancer was in remission, the success rate was even higher at 72 percent. "The results of this study are heartening, but further investigation of this approach in larger clinical trials is needed...Most adverse events in hospitalized children are preventable
...the United States experience an adverse event each year and that at least 60 percent of these errors may be preventable. Adverse events are injuries caused by medical management rather than diseases that result in either prolonged hospitalization or disability at discharge, according to the study, which ...Program effective at reducing depression in teens
...cent of adolescents report periods during the past year of depressive symptoms leading to impairment, according to background information in the article. Untreated depression is associated with suicide, a leading cause of death for youth aged 15 to 24 years, and with other negative outcomes including scho...Collaborative care, training boosts adolescent depression treatment in primary care clinics
...st teens visit a primary care doctor or nurse each year and these visits provide important opportunities to identify teens suffering from depression and provide them with optimal care," said Joan Asarnow, principal investigator of the study, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA N...PENN study emphasizes need for national guidelines for assisted reproductive technology programs
...177,000 babies have been born via ART: and, in one year alone (2000), some 100,000 cycles of ART were attempted, resulting in 60,253 live births. Beyond the factors of infertility and a candidate's ability to afford treatment, little is known about the qualifications that ART programs use to determine a ...2001-2002 survey finds that many recover from alcoholism
...l dependence (alcoholism) that began more than one year ago are now in full recovery, according to an arti...s with alcohol dependence that began more than one year ago now are dependent, 27.3 percent are in partial remission (that is, exhibit some symptoms of alco...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January 2005 (second issue)
...nfants who did not have a cold during their second year of life. Initially involving 1,924 youngsters bor...ge. The investigators related that, in the second year of life, 77 children were reported to have wheezed in the absence of a cold. The authors also found...2005: A critical year for action towards millennium development goals
...tainability, with quantitative targets set for the year 2015. The UN committed to reviewing progress towar...very long way to the next Millennium Summit in the year 3000.'...Grapefruit juice and medication can be a dangerous mix
...oks into how widespread the problem might be. Last year she also reported that nurses had found that some types of skin patches could catch on fire when patients receive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans....Study identifies predictors of HIV drug resistance in patients beginning triple therapy
...egimen, age, gender, plasma viral load, CD4 count, year of initial therapy and history of injection drug use were examined for their impact on the development of resistance. Of all the factors studied, adherence to the medication regimen (measured by the number of filled prescriptions) had by far the gre...New insight into link between homocysteine and stroke
.... There are 125,000 cases of stroke in the UK each year and 60,000 deaths. Because treatment is limited, prevention through modification of risk factors such as high blood pressure and smoking is important. Observational studies measuring homocysteine concentrations in healthy individuals have found that...USC/Norris oncologists test new front-line therapy for pancreatic cancer
...er of the pancreas causes about 27,000 deaths each year in the United States alone. "Pancreatic cancer is a major health problem, because we do not yet have highly effective ways to deal with it," says Lenz, director of the gastrointestinal oncology program at USC/Norris. "The cancer is difficult to diagn...Added sugar displaces food groups lowering quality of preschooler diets
... and dairy. Eleven percent of the two and three year olds and 12 percent of the four and five year olds consumed 25 percent or more of calories from added sugar. Average sugar intake was lower among...Rotary blood pump shows promise for pediatric patients
...onal Society of Rotary Blood Pumps in Germany last year to discuss past lessons learned and future directi...ing to WebMD Health, as many as 50,000 people each year could benefit from a heart transplant, but only 2,000 to 2,500 hearts become available. As a result...Elevated glucose levels and diabetes are associated with increased risk for cancer
...specific cancers in men and women in Korea. The 10 year Korean Cancer Prevention Study (KCPS) included 1,298,385 Koreans (829,770 men and 468,615 women) aged 30 to 95 years who received health insurance from the National Health Insurance Corp. and had a biennial medical evaluation in 1992-1995. During th...