Lancet study: Pfizer's Vfend equals two-drug candidemia regimen, with fewer serious side effects
...lerability and broad spectrum, and also due to the availability of IV and oral formulations. Treatment discontinuations due to all-cause adverse events were more frequent in the Vfend group, although most discontinuations in this group were due to non-drug-related events. Patients taking Vfend experienced fewer ...Cancer survivors require distinct care
...rights affecting employment and insurance; and the availability of psychological and support services. The committee that wrote the report also called for new evidence-based clinical guidelines and standards to assure the quality of care given to cancer survivors, as well as for better coordination between speci...High income earners use more diagnostic imaging
.... Access to diagnostic imaging is dependent on the availability and distribution of equipment and personnel, on the management of wait lists, and on other factors that influence access to health care, such as the density of primary care physicians per population and patterns of medical practice and referral. Non...Data on herceptin for early breast cancer currently insufficient for decision on its use
..., no matter how well meaning. The debate about the availability of Herceptin to women with early breast cancer demands cooler heads than have so far prevailed, in politics, in public, and even in medical journals."...Conference offers new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration
...nd infectious disease, the Academies announced the availability of $1 million in seed grants up to $75,000 each which will be awarded competitively to conference participants to speed the new lines of research identified at the sessions. Grant recipients will be announced in April 2006. "Genomics research sta...Family habits set drinking path
...rents' awareness of the risks associated with easy availability of alcohol in the family context during early adolescence if we are able to reduce the high rates of alcohol misuse," the authors wrote. Dr Alati's paper was co-written, with Mater Misericordiae Hospital and UQ researchers such as Mater Study founde...Higher dose formulation of FOSRENOL approved to reduce serum phosphorus in esrd patients
...ughout the gastrointestinal tract. Despite the availability of phosphorus-binding agents, it remains a challenge for many ESRD patients to maintain target ranges. According to the K/DOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Bone Metabolism and Disease, Guideline 3, Evaluation of Serum Phosphorus Levels, fewer th...Rate of paid-for sex with women has doubled in 10 years
...sing divorce rate, sex tourism, and the increasing availability of commercial sex services may help to explain the trend....Food subsidies are damaging health
...de issues such as marketing of energy dense foods, availability to children, labelling, and tax and price measures....Iron particles and MRI could replace biopsies to track stem cell therapy and deploy stents
...onal method used to deploy the devices. "The ready availability of MRI machines means that IRON could be widely introduced into clinical practice within a relatively short time," says Gilson....Government pledge on access to medicines welcomed
...d not go down the discredited path of limiting the availability of drugs as has been seen in New Zealand," Mr Schneemann said....NHS failing to provide health care according to need
... researchers in this week's BMJ. They analysed the availability of primary care according to deprivation and health need in Scotland. Their study was based on a sample population of 5.35 million people served by 1,050 general practices and divided into ten groups of equal size according to deprivation. They show ...Men with erectile dysfunction have increased risk for cardiovascular events
...plications of this study are substantial. With the availability of effective pharmacotherapy, an increasing number of men are seeking care for erectile dysfunction. It is estimated that more than 600,000 men aged 40 to 69 years in the United States develop erectile dysfunction annually. Our data suggest that the ...Researchers investigate the case of the disappearing teaspoons
.... The rapid rate of teaspoon loss shows that their availability (and therefore office life) is under constant assault. One possible explanation for the phenomenon is resistentialism (the theory that inanimate objects have a natural aversion to humans), they write. This is demonstrated by the fact that people have...Food insecurity impairs academic development of children
... defined as households having limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate or safe foods. "We found that reading development, in particular, is affected in girls, though the mathematical skills of food-insecure children entering kindergarten also tend to develop significantly more slowly than other...Cultural differences may explain variations in home remedy use
...archers considered other possible factors, such as availability of care, economic hardship and health disparities. When they adjusted for socio-economic inequalities between blacks and white, "ethnic differences in home remedy use became larger rather than smaller." "Home remedy use is widespread among elder adul...Oral contraceptive pill may prevent more than pregnancy
...efore, these pills decrease a woman's male hormone availability by two separate mechanisms. No wonder so many women have had symptoms." "This work is the culmination of 7 years of observational research in which we noted in our practice many women with sexual dysfunction who had used the oral contraceptive but w...Use of amino acid supplement following a heart attack provides no benefit, may be harmful
...ad public health implications given the increasing availability and use of L-arginine in patients with and without established cardiovascular diseases." Death occurred in 6 patients (8.6 percent) in the L-arginine group died during the 6-month study period vs. none in the placebo group. "In conclusion, L-arginin...International research reveals proven ways to reduce drug costs
...n potential benefit to patients, disease severity, availability of treatment alternatives, numbers of potential users, cost-effectiveness and drug prices in other countries. Furberg said drug companies have the option of rejecting the reimbursement rate and setting a higher price, but patients must pay the diffe...Blood flow in brain takes a twist, affecting views of Alzheimer's
...ly problem familiar to anyone who worried over the availability of gasoline immediately after hurricane Katrina. In our bodies the process is particularly crucial in the brain, which is the body's most voracious guzzler of "fuel," with a constant need for oxygen. When part of the brain becomes more active, more b...