Researchers show beneficial role of risk calculator in fighting progression of glaucoma
...ree or stage of the glaucoma. Physicians might not prescribe any treatment for ocular hypertension, for example, when increased pressure in the eye is minimal and no nerve damage is present. Routine monitoring of the patient's peripheral vision and of the appearance of the optic nerve may be sufficient. The g...New model shows gender differences in high blood pressure, Jefferson scientists find
...erapeutic profile for such patients might helps us prescribe the correct drugs more quickly. We hope the work might lead to better, more specific ways to treat high blood pressure than currently used diuretics and specific receptor blockers." She notes that even though these mice have hypertension, their blood...Low-cost alternative drugs can help patients with problems controlling blood pressure
...doesn't result in a normal blood pressure tend to prescribe higher doses of the medicine already being used, or add in a new blood pressure drug that could be expensive and often is also ineffective. He said he expects that this and additional studies will convince physicians to try the amiloride or spironol...Real-time MRI helps doctors assess beating heart in fetus
...e fetus has poor heart function, a physician might prescribe a drug that improves pumping, or might recommend an earlier delivery," he added. "Better knowledge of specifics of a heart's structure and function could help the physician and parents better prepare for surgery on the infant after birth. This techno...Post-stroke tests not used often enough, especially in women
...es. The results of such tests can guide doctors to prescribe preventive treatment and help patients understand what they must do to prevent a second stroke. "Diagnostic evaluations that should be done on every ischemic stroke patient still aren't being performed on a third to a half of patients, and they're l...MRSA is a global problemperspectives from around the world
...ch provides financial incentives for physicians to prescribe antibiotics. "This has only recently been adequately addressed at the policy level", say Harbarth and Pittet. In the UK, the changing environment within hospitals has hampered implementation of effective MRSA control measures. Reduced numbers of hosp...Key strategy to limit managed care drug costs failing, survey shows
...ght to limit the amount of expensive drugs doctors prescribe to patients in order to keep drug costs form spira... a medical group will make money if member doctors prescribe within the drug budget set by the insurance company, and will lose money if member doctors over-pres...Women with atrial fibrillation face a higher risk of ischemic stroke than men
...orrhage risk, physicians are sometimes hesitant to prescribe the drug, and some studies have shown that women are less likely to receive warfarin therapy than men," Fang said. "However, we found that women in our study did not suffer bleeding complications related to Warfarin more often than men who were using...Women missing out in heart treatment more needed in clinical trials
...t in trials conducted predominantly in men. So, we prescribe drugs to women adapted from evidence-based data obtained from studies conducted mainly in men and we do not really know whether we help or harm the female patients. Take one example: as we have no prospective data for digitalis in female patients, it...Polypharmacy in children on the rise in the US
...ffects of a single drug, how much riskier is it to prescribe multiple drugs?" Penn says. The authors cite examples of a child on two medications for ADHD who died suddenly, and additionally describe serotonin syndrome, a serious and potentially fatal illness that can result when a child receives two medicatio...FDA approved ROZEREM (ramelteon)
...leep onset. The FDA approval allows physicians to prescribe ROZEREM for long-term use in adults. ROZEREM is the first and only prescription sleep medication that has shown no evidence of abuse and dependence and, as a result, has not been designated as a controlled substance by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin...Doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics for the common cold, review advises
...rpose, it is the second most common reason doctors prescribe them, Arroll writes. "Physicians prescribe antibiotics in these cases out of habit and/or because they do not agree with the evidence," says Dr...Recent use of antibiotics doubles your chances of being resistant
...lation as a whole, when deciding whether or not to prescribe antibiotics for an individual they may consider th...count of this information when deciding whether to prescribe and consume antibiotics....Malpractice litigation wrongly blamed for inconsistent health care
...rs, gives hospitals and physicians an incentive to prescribe treatments and drugs that may not be necessary and to curtail programs that result in a loss of hospital or physician revenue. "Health-care providers worry less about quality than they should because they are not paid to do so," the authors wrote. T...Parkinson's medication appears to trigger excessive gambling
...tion is recognized. Although physicians frequently prescribe pramipexole for restless legs syndrome, the Mayo Clinic researchers believe the lower doses used pose little danger of it prompting pathological gambling....Quality measures need to be field-tested, researchers find
...icators that would tell physicians when and how to prescribe antibiotics could contribute to more effective treatment of LRTIs and lessen the risk of promoting drug resistance. Insurance companies and federal government programs are moving toward linking physician payments to quality indicators. Researchers in...Canadian researchers call for more angiograms
...he research shows that the more Alberta physicians prescribe cardiac catheterizations--also know as angiograms--to detect people with coronary artery disease, the more people they are finding who have high-risk blockages and who would benefit from therapeutic treatment, such as bypass surgery and angioplasty. ...Children in chronic pain need better support, say researchers
...reated by their family doctor, the medication they prescribe is selected on the basis of on data extrapolated from adults, and the evidence for its effectiveness in children is limited. "Controlled trials with a focus on safety, as well as efficacy, are urgently needed for all conditions of childhood and adole...Antibiotic treatment not necessary for majority of children with conjunctivitis
...se from a bacterial cause. Standard practice is to prescribe antibiotic eye drops, although evidence to support this decision is scarce. Antibiotic resistance is also a growing global problem, state the authors. Peter Rose (University of Oxford, UK) and colleagues did a randomised trial to investigate the effe...'Watch and wait' - a shift in approach to kids' ear infections
BOSTON--The most frequent reason pediatricians prescribe antibioticsto young children is for an ear infection (acute otitis media). Withincreased concerns about high rates of antibiotic use and resistance,recent guidelines suggest consideration of "watchful waiting" forsome ear infections to see if they re...