The power of drug advertising: Patients often get what they ask for
...umer and clinician behavior, this was the first to examine the tendency to over-prescribe or under-prescribe a medication. The National Institute of Mental Health funded the project. The researchers noted a few drawbacks to the study, however. Chiefly, they cannot determine whether DTC advertising actually p...Color doppler sonography speeds detection of serious illness in premature infants
...ersity of Toronto used color Doppler sonography to examine 30 premature and full-term infants with suspected or proven NEC. Researchers then compared the CDS findings with those from abdominal x-rays. CDS uses high-frequency sound waves to detect and quantify blood flow. When x-rays are used to diagnose dea...Patients swallow 'camera-in-a-pill' to help doctors check for diseases of esophagus, GERD
...ional endoscopy, the most common procedure used to examine the esophagus, " says gastroenterologist Dr. Michael Brown of Rush University Medical Center, the first center in Chicago to offer this to patients. "In traditional endoscopy, a long, flexible tube (endoscope) is put into the mouth and advanced down ...Role of soy foods in addressing obesity to be topic of Illinois forum
...at Urbana-Champaign will host a forum May 25-26 to examine the role that soy foods can play in managing a person's weight. The forum will bring together food industry representatives, health-care professionals, dietitians and university scientists to review the latest research. The event is sponsored by the ...Fiber supplements may lower cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetics
...reatment option." The study is one of the first to examine the effect of fiber in cardiovascular risk reduction for people with type 2 diabetes, Verdegem said. The 78 participants in the open label trial had type 2 diabetes and averaged 59 years old. Researchers measured the participants' total blood chol...Diabetes and pizza: Slow and steady insulin delivery wins the race
...0 mg/dl and 124 mg/dl. "This study is the first to examine the optimal timing of the dual-wave administration of insulin," Gabbay said. "We showed that the eight-hour extended dose of insulin better controlled post-meal glucose levels and did not decrease glucose levels enough to cause any hypoglycemic event...Study examines influence of celebrity endorsements of cancer screening
...about how these endorsements affect the public. To examine the extent to which adults of screening age had seen, heard, or were influenced by celebrity endorsements of various types of cancer screening--screening mammography, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, and sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy--Robin J....Different consultants mean different lengths of stay in hospitals
...ute medical conditions. It would be of interest to examine the extent to which protocols and guidelines could reduce such variations.'...Decline in major heart disease offset by rise in diagnosed angina among British men
...s. The men were monitored over a 20 year period to examine trends in rates of diagnosed (medically recorded) coronary heart disease. The rate of major coronary events fell substantially over the 20 year period by an average of 3.6% per year. In contrast, the rate of first diagnosed angina increased by an ave...Diabetes medication pioglitazone HCl may significantly improve predictors of cardiovascular risk
... This randomized, controlled study was designed to examine the effects of oral therapy with either pioglitazone (45 mg/day) or the blood glucose-lowering drug glimepiride (2.7 1-6 mg) for 12 and 24 weeks, on metabolic control (HbA1c), insulin resistance (homeostasis model assessment) and carotid artery thic...Low-fat dairy foods may help reduce risk of type 2 diabetes
...esearchers conducted the current study to directly examine the relationship between dairy consumption and diabetes. Initiated in 1986, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study has gathered information regarding the relationship between dietary factors and several illnesses from more than 50,000 men employed...Digestive Disease Week 2005 spotlights breakthrough research in digestive health
...edures for GI disorders, review current practices, examine novel technical approaches and highlight a variety of clinical studies. Research presented at DDW 2005 promises to address hot topics in GI health, including: Better diagnostics, stronger therapies and more effective procedures for colorectal ca...Study: Americans willing to pay more for greater vaccine coverage
...rs, physicians and public health officials need to examine enrollees' preferences as they consider remedies for vaccine underinsurance." In addition to Davis, the study was co-authored by Kathryn E. Fant, MPH, with the CHEAR Unit in the Division of General Pediatrics at the U-M Health System....A hospital stay can make an older person more likely to commit suicide
...the previous two years. This is the first study to examine this type of association between hospitalization and suicide in older adults. According to investigators, "a substantial part of the greater suicide rate in the oldest old than in the middle-aged can be attributed to the increased prevalence of medic...Novel stem cell trial in heart failure patients to begin
...resents the first time researchers will be able to examine a human heart treated with stem cells, an opportun...ssue. Our study presents the unique opportunity to examine the heart several months after stem cell injections, when the patient's native heart is removed for ...Work fatigue and working overtime are associated with weight gain
...he City of Helsinki, therefore, it was possible to examine the associations between various working conditions and weight gain. Fourth of women and 19% of men reported that they had gained weight during the previous year. The study revealed some risk groups, where weigh gain was more common than in other g...Molecular testing in patients with rare cancer predicts response to Gleevec
.... The purpose of this latest study was to further examine the relationship between the more common mutations and drug response in a much larger, dosage comparison Phase III study. "We are pleased that the findings in this study substantiate our earlier observations," said Christopher L. Corless, M.D., P...Investigating the appropriateness of current alcohol-use disorder criteria for adolescents
...le representative sample of the U.S. population to examine the effects of age, gender, race/ethnicity, and drinking status on the prevalence of DSM-IV diagnostic criteria among both adolescents and adults. "DSM-IV criteria were developed with clinical adult populations," said Thomas C. Harford, a senior re...Neuroimaging confirms the greater vulnerability of women's brains to alcohol
...men are. New research uses computed tomography to examine alcohol's effects on the brains of alcoholic men a...gap in research, using computed tomography (CT) to examine brain atrophy in the brains of alcoholic men and women. The findings support and build upon a prior...Study shows non-children's hospitals serve majority of US children
...mental health conditions." The group next plans to examine pediatric emergency department use at non-children's hospitals. In addition to Wasserman, members of the study team include Pamela Owens, Ph.D., Anne Elixhauser, Ph.D., and Denise Remus, Ph.D., R.N., from the U.S. Health and Human Services' Agency fo...