Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, Feb. 21, 2006 issue
... ...In this study of more than 4,000 patients who were experiencing coronary heart disease for the first time, patients who were taking statin or b-blocker drugs were more likely to be diagnosed with angina than myocardial infarction or to die from sudden death (Article, p. 229). ... ...Angina is a more stable, more controllable and lower risk form of heart disease. Statins are drugs used to...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 28, 2007
... ACS NEWS SERVICE Feb. 28, 2007... Weekly PressPac - ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, March 5, 2007)... ... ... ... ... Contact: Michael Woods... 202-872-4400... ... ..... ...... ... The first urine test to detect insulin doping in athletes... Vegetable soup chemical reactions... Elevated...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Feb. 20, 2007, issue
... ... ... The available evidence did not reveal harms asso...Feb. 16 event explores pills, politics and the public trust
... ... What are these perceptions based on? Are they realistic or unfair? And what are the consequences for the pharmaceutical industry and for health care in gene...Highlights from the February 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...The quality of people's diets designed to prevent coronary heart disease has "moderately improved" over the last two decades, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota. ... ... During the past two decades, the researchers found study participants improved their diets by eating more fruit,...Embargoed Jan./Feb. Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...Nearly all the pharmaceutical ads consumers see on television are based on emotional appeals, and few provide necessary details about the causes of a medical condition, risk factors or lifestyle changes that may be appropriate alternatives to pharmaceutical interventions. In a content analysis of 38 unique pharmaceutical advertisements that ran during peak television viewing times, researche...Jefferson Pancreatic Cancer Conference Feb. 24 highlights treatments, trials, vaccine research
(PHILADELPHIA) Pancreatic cancer is no longer the immediate death sentence that most people think it is.... "The public hears 'pancreatic cancer' and thinks there's little hope and there isn't much to do," says pancreatic cancer surgeon Charles Yeo, M.D., professor and chair of surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. "The good news is, with new imaging...... ...This issue of Annals includes two articles and an editorial about the management of pulmonary embolism (PE). ... ...One article reports on decisions to confirm or rule out PE in 1,529 consecutive patients who went to 117 emergency departments with suspected PE (Article, p. 157). ... ...Researchers found that emergency departments failed to use the recommended evaluation procedures ...in 6...... Anger greatly increases a person's chances of injury, especially among men, according to this study of more than 2,500 patients. Based on interviews of people who had been seriously injured and were seeking care at an emergency department, researchers found that 31.7 percent reported some degree of irritability just before the injury, 18.1 percent reported feeling angry and 13.2 percent rep...