Study reveals $20 billion in untapped generic drug savings
... six major drug-therapy classes and was based on a random sample of approximately 3 million individuals. The Express Scripts "2004 Generic Drug Usage Report" also ranked generic drug use and savings opportunities by state, revealing significant variation across the six drug categories used to treat common c...Bladder problems increase in men as they age, Mayo Clinic study reports
...ariations could be lessened. The study looked at a random sample of 529 men, ages 40 to 79, who were followed with the two tests every two years for up to 12 years. Dr. Rule says the study presents some new data on the natural history of the post-void residual and void volume in men as they age. "What was ...Past illegal blood donation in China linked to hepatitis C virus infection
... at Birmingham, conducted a survey in 2003 among a random sample of 538 adult residents from 12 former commercial plasma-donating villages in Shanxi Province. Structured questionnaires were administered and blood samples tested for HCV antibodies. HCV rates were 8% in all participants, 28% in former plasma/...Cold treatment protects against infant disability and death from oxygen loss
...nts took part in the study. They were assigned at random to 1 of 2 groups, with 102 infants undergoing the experimental cooling (hypothermia) treatment and 106 receiving standard care. Standard care for HIE may involve placing the infant on a ventilator to assist breathing monitoring blood pressure, and ...Cervical cancer vaccine proves effective: Test results
...l. Women aged 16 years to 26 years were chosen at random to receive a three-dose regimen of either Gardasil TM or placebo at Day 1, Month 2, and Month 6. Gardasil TM was successful in preventing 100 per cent of cases of high-grade pre-cancer and non-invasive cancer associated with human papillomavirus (...Genomes of more than 200 human flu strains reveal a dynamic virus
...arge-scale effort to sequence flu strains drawn at random from a geographically limited region: most strains came from samples submitted over five years to the New York State Department of Health. The sequenced strains were not pre-selected for virulence or other characteristics, giving researchers an unbia...Only one-third of women take vitamin to help prevent serious birth defects, survey finds
... that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects could be plus or minus two percentage points. The also survey found: Nearly 90 percent of women surveyed believe there are things they can do to prevent births defects. These women cited avoiding alcohol and drugs and not smoking as the t...Cars, computer chips and heart attacks?
... follow ACC's guidelines. The new data come from a random sample of half the heart attack patients treated a...efore the GAP project was implemented there, and a random sample of nearly all the patients treated in the time after the GAP rollout at each hospital. The pa...Musical training might be good for the heart
...ned to short tracks of different types of music in random order, for 2 minutes, followed by the same selection of tracks for 4 minutes each. A 2 minute pause was randomly inserted into each of these sequences. Participants listened to raga (Indian classical music), Beethoven's ninth symphony (slow classica...Post-stroke tests not used often enough, especially in women
...er is based on detailed analysis of records from a random sample of 381 patients, 220 of them female and hal... between Jan. 1, 2000 and Dec. 31, 2002. After the random sample of patients was selected from among all ischemic stroke patients, stroke neurologists went th...Americans think commitment to health research should be stronger
...(range, 800 5,377). Participants were selected at random and surveyed by telephone interview. In a 2005 poll, Americans ranked health care (28 percent), education (22 percent), and jobs (20 percent) as the most important domestic issues. That same year, the majority of interviewees (78 percent) said it was...New drug reverses effects of sleep deprivation on brain
...of one to 30 seconds, picked the original out of a random display of two to six different images to get a juice reward. The monkeys were then given varying doses of the drug and re-tested. At the highest dose tested, the drug improved performance to near perfect for the easier trials and by about 15 percent...Do free drug samples influence residents' prescribing decisions?
...e-counter, or available in generic formulation. By random selection, half of the residents agreed not to use available free drug samples. The authors observed 390 decisions to initiate drug therapy in five drug class pairs. After selecting drug classes where samples of heavily advertised drugs were provided...Strong magnetic fields aid severe depression
...edly, the division of the groups was not made on a random basis, which reduces the reliability of the findings,' Dr. Wagner warns. 'The number of patients taking part is also too small for us to draw final conclusions about the effectiveness.' However, other studies also confirm that the effect of magnetic ......o the participants. But when the researchers added random vibrations -- noise, that is -- people were able to detect the frequency of the weak, original vibrations. However, the noise had to be "just the right amount to raise it above a sensory threshold so it can be perceived. Too little noise isn't enough...Suicide bomber sensors would not reduce casualties
...nd comparing pedestrian suicide bombing attacks on random crowds in two urban settings-- a grid of city blocks and a large, open plaza. The team assessed the probability of detecting a bomber in a timely fashion and calculated the expected numbers of casualties that would result with and without interventio...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July 2005 (first issue)
... The survey was conducted in 1985 and 1996/97 on a random sample of the population of the city of Bergen and 11 surrounding municipalities in western Norway. The first questionnaire to be mailed out contained 40 questions about respiratory health, allergies, smoking habits, and occupational exposure. Afte...Women's health suffers under welfare reform, study says
...omparing data from the Women's Employment Study, a random sample of single mothers receiving cash benefits in an urban county in Michigan, to women of the same age and race who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, University of Michigan researchers found the welfare recipien...Most primary care physicians believe annual physical examinations are valuable
...ctices regarding annual physical examinations of a random sample of primary care physicians (PCPs) including physicians specializing in internal medicine, family practice and obstetrics/gynecology who were located in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Denver and San Diego. Of the 783 primary care physicians...Survey shows that physicians are more religious than expected
...he survey used a 12-page questionnaire mailed to a random sample of 2,000 U.S. practicing physicians; 63 percent responded to one of three mailings. The researchers did not find evidence that religious physicians were more likely to respond that those who are not religious. Results from this survey were com...