Top anti-arthritis drugs cause skin disease
...s can cause serious dermatological conditions in a quarter of patients under treatment, reveals a study published today in the journal Arthritis Research and Therapy . Last year saw the withdrawal of frontline anti-arthritis drug Vioxx, which belongs to the cox-2 inhibitors family, when it was revealed tha...Education program reduces incidents of shaken baby syndrome
...injuries among infants are serious, with about one quarter of infants dying from their injuries and at least one half of the survivors suffering significant neurological impairments," said Mark S. Dias, M.D., pediatric neurosurgeon and associate professor of neurosurgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn...Breakthrough in national diseases
...lecular Medicine (CMM), Stockholm, Sweden. Up to a quarter of the population could be affected. Researchers in the fields of cardiovascular disease, rheumatism and MS have together shown that there is a common risk factor for these conditions. It is the first identified gene to link autoimmune diseases with ...Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
People with "mild persistent asthma" -- about a quarter of all asthma sufferers-- appear to gain adequate relief by inhaling anti-inflammatory steroids only during periods of bad symptoms, rather than daily as current guidelines recommend, a new study shows. Symptoms of mild, persistent asthma are wheezin...Steady rise in allergic diseases over quarter of a century
...py) in adults has steadily increased over the last quarter of the 20th century, but the reason for the increa...y in middle aged men has increased during the last quarter of the 20th century, and that the prevalence of atopy does not decline with increasing age, as previ...Drug can reduce bodyweight and cardiovascular risk factors in obese people
...t and up to 20% clinically obese. Yearly, around a quarter of a million deaths in Europe and more than 2.5 million deaths worldwide are weight-related, with cardiovascular disease as the leading cause. Luc Van Gaal (University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium) and colleagues undertook a trial (RIO-Europe) involvi...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...that up to a tenth of the world's drug trade and a quarter in developing countries consists of fakes. Controlling this phenomenon clearly constitutes a global challenge." Dr Hermentin's team's test on the streptokinase products, which were on the market in some non-EU European countries, Brazil, India, Jorda...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
... that only brushes with circular heads that move a quarter turn in one direction and then back a quarter turn, clean better than a traditional toothbrush. These results show that many people may be wasting...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
... served about half of all U.S. infants and about a quarter of children ages 1 through 4, along with many of their mothers. The costs of providing supplemental food packages as well as nutrition education, breast-feeding support, and other assistance to 7.6 million participants a month totaled $4.7 billion i...Physical pain aggravates majority of Americans, according to poll
... pain as their most recent difficulty, and another quarter cited joint pain. Nearly one-tenth said they suffered from headaches. Why does it hurt? Half the crowd could identify a specific medical condition or injury behind their most recent painful experience. Just as many could not. Among those who could, ...Carbonated soft drinks and sleeping pills cause heartburn during sleep
...e of Medicine, Tucson, AZ. "We found that up to a quarter of the US population loses sleep because of nighttime heartburn, and many of these individuals have related sleep complaints and suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness." To determine predictive factors of heartburn during sleep, researchers from Tu...Medication errors continue even in highly computerized hospital
...hese studies have also suggested that as much as a quarter of inpatient adverse drug events might be prevente...ere 52 adverse drug events per 100 admissions. One quarter of the hospitalizations had at least one adverse drug event. Nine percent of the adverse drug events...Study shows even limited training improves communication with patients from other cultures
...erg School of Public Health. "While more than one quarter of the general population is from black, Hispanic or Asian descent, the vast majority of physicians are white." According to Beach, racial inequities in health status persist, in part, because of a failure in communication and lack of trust between t...New hope for treating heart rhythm irregularity that often follows surgery
...ng of the upper chambers of the heart--occurs in a quarter to a half of patients who undergo heart surgeries such as coronary bypass or valve replacement. The condition can lead to serious post-operative complications, including congestive heart failure or stroke. "Patients have suffered postoperative atria...Adults and children use over-the-counter hydrocortisone creams in safe amounts
...d had a child younger than 18 living at home and a quarter of those reported treating a child with over-the-counter HC in the previous six months. The frequency of use was more than the recommended maximum of four times a day in only 3 percent of cases, and only 6 percent reported using it for longer than th...Risk of heart attack may increase with certain anti-inflammatory drugs
...rs. For ibuprofen, the risk increased by almost a quarter (24%), and for diclofenac it rose by over a half (55%). The newer generation of anti-inflammatories - COX-2 inhibitors - were also associated with increased rates of first-time heart attack. Those prescribed the drugs in the preceeding three months ...Avoiding amputation: Early infection intervention can save feet & legs
...ed peripheral vascular occlusive disease. Nearly a quarter of the patients died within 31 months of their hospital stay. "This is a patient population in which a non-healing foot wound becomes an ulcer, exposes the bone, and leads to osteomyelitis," says Henke. About half of the U-M patients had been on anti...Changing sexual behaviour in the UK
... increased. At the end of the twentieth century, a quarter of young women had intercourse before the age of consent compared with fewer than 1% of those becoming sexually active in the 1950s. Here too, the gap between the sexes has been narrowing over time, and by the 1990s had closed. Despite the converg...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July 2005 (first issue)
...mated attributable fractions suggest that almost a quarter of the incidence cases of adult asthma could be prevented if children were not exposed to pre- and post-natal environmental tobacco smoke. They pointed out that they believed this was the first study to show that pre- and post-natal passive smoking ...New pediatrician workforce policy addresses growing challenges in health care
...of much current media focus, children constitute a quarter of the U.S population and consume an increasing portion of health care services. In the report, "The Pediatrician Workforce: Current Status and Future Prospects," Goodman and the Committee on Pediatric Workforce describe important recent changes in t...