Direct-to-consumer advertising may influence physicians' prescribing decisions
... to determine the effects of patients' DTC-related requests on physicians' initial treatment decisions in pati...visits in which standardized patients made general requests for medication (76 percent), lowest for visits in which standardized patients made no requests for m...Actor-patients' requests for medications boost prescribing for depression
...the National Institutes of Health, have found that requests from patients for medications have a "profound eff...s to seek effective care. They made brand-specific requests for Paxil®, saying they learned about the medication from a commercial; or general requests for ...Narcotic drugs effective for severe, chronic pain in older patients
... worry that use of the drugs will lead to patient requests for ever-increasing doses. Extended opioid use at high doses can alter immune and hormonal function and, ironically, increase pain sensitivity. The escalating drug need, stemming from "tolerance" to a given dose, also can become very costly. The new ...VCR - US patent litigation update
...ely witness depositions, interrogatories, document requests and requests for admissions. The plaintiffs served their first request for discovery and interrogatories on Hear...Neurology Now, patient magazine of American Academy of Neurology, wins national award
... of publication, Neurology Now has received 10,000 requests for subscriptions from people with an interest in neurological disorders. The circulation is over 300,000. The premiere issue, published in April 2005, featured a cover story about actress Teri Garr who has been living with MS for several years. The ...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
...and constitute probably the most common reason for requests for ethical consultations today," she added. "I hope this study will encourage more investigation into the conflicts and dilemmas of healthcare from both the perspective of healthcare professionals and also from the perspective of patients and their ...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
...caught off guard and almost instantly flooded with requests from the public. More controversial was the penicillin case, in which two government-appointed committees, one military and the other civilian, decided who received medications. While the civilian committee allocated drugs to the most seriously il...Preventing communication errors in telephone medicine
...es include giving sensitive test results, handling requests for narcotics, dealing with the patient who is not sick enough for the emergency room, inappropriate late night calls, unintelligible patients and getting information from family members. In one case study, a physician calls a patient to deliver test...Leading groups offer NIH direct links to journals to make research access easy for public
...m NIH Funded Research" on May 2, 2005. The policy requests NIH grantees submit to the NIH any manuscripts that report on NIH-funded research. The voluntary program asks participating researchers to submit their manuscripts to the agency after they have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication, but bef...University of Minnesota's Warner wins GSA's 2005 Donald P. Kent Award
... to initiate a series of program announcements and requests for applications that have brought together the sub-fields of cellular and sub-cellular research with whole organ or organism physiology. He also helped initiate the Intervention Testing Program, an endeavor which seeks to close the gap between basic...The British National Space Centre and DMC join the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'
...tellites to join the Charter in support of so many requests makes us feel very pleased, in particular since the Charter has so recently proved the importance of space in helping to minimize suffering caused by natural and technological disasters all over the world," said Volker Liebig. Following the UNISPACE...No separate changing rooms for boys and girls in one in five primary schools
...schools in question had received a large number of requests from the children themselves for separate facilities, say the authors. The survey of 116 primary schools in Sheffield, a large city in northern England, included children between the ages of 8 and 12. Of the 102 that responded, 40 (39%) said that t...Sexual health clinics will need to more than triple capacity to meet 48 hour access target
...ceived. In all, over three quarters of appointment requests were made by phone; almost one in five were made i...om family doctors. More than eight out of 10 phone requests were for a new appointment, as opposed to follow up. But there were only 181 new appointment slots a...Prisons not adapting to needs of aging inmate population
...ed to a bottom bunk unless the person specifically requests otherwise, and should be in a cell with grab bars near the toilets. They should be housed closer to the dining hall, and given more time to drop to the floor during alarms. There should be grab bars in showers, and rubber mats on shower floors." She ...ABIM to recognize CMS Physician Voluntary Reporting Program measures
... that internists face, as they respond to multiple requests for data that describe their practice results," said John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP, CEO and Executive Vice President of the American College of Physicians. "The voluntary nature of the PVRP will allow physicians to pilot the use of their data to initi...Watch not, want not? Packard/Stanford study links kids' TV time and consumerism
...ation between increased screen time and subsequent requests for toys and junk food held true for over a period...up to about one request each week for toys and two requests every three weeks for food or drinks. These numbers are similar to those reported in other studies. ...Children's viewing time may increase requests for advertised products
... advertising influences children's preferences and requests beginning at a young age. "Since parents control family budgets, child requests are important forces for family spending and may negatively impact interactions between parents and ...Fast pharmacy access to the morning-after pill could prevent 10% more unwanted pregnancies
...6 pharmacy request forms and compared them with 87 requests for emergency contraception from two of the busiest family planning clinics in the Primary Care Trust area. "Our study suggests that community pharmacists are providing a valuable role in preventing unwanted pregnancies by supplying the morning-after...Drug ads aimed at cancer patients difficult to read, make more appeals to effectiveness than safety
...as they may influence patients' perceptions of and requests for these medications." Abel will present the data at a poster discussion session on Tuesday, June 6 at 8 a.m., Building A, Level 3, Room A 314. The researchers reviewed all advertisements for oncology drugs that appeared in three cancer patient-focu...Study elicits 'child's eye' view of methamphetamine abuse and its effects
...fare workers and other professionals. "We get more requests than we can accommodate from people just desperate for some information," Haight said. They also are conducting weekly sessions, or interventions, in the foster homes of the children who took part in the study, with support from the Illinois Departme...