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Physicians Consider Self-Prescribing Ethical

...Duluth, surveyed 300 urban and rural physicians to determine general attitudes towards self-prescription. An earlier study had indicated that about half of all residents prescribe for themselves. // According to the survey, the most commonly prescribed drugs were antibiotics, followed by antidepressants and...

Hepatitis G May Boost HIV Survival

...a City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "If we can determine how (hepatitis G) infection diminishes HIV growth, we will have both potential targets for new drug approaches and potentially a new therapy approach,'' he said. Several earlier studies had demonstrated a link between hepatitis G and prolonged surviv...

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

... control. Although the study was not designed to determine how poor glycemic control might increase gastrointestinal symptoms, the authors suggest a possible explanation. They point out that hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, is known to affect the gastrointestinal system. For example, high levels of blood ...

Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment

...ashington University School of Medicine set out to determine whether the symptoms could be treated with older and less expensive (first-line) antibiotics or newer and more expensive (second-line) antibiotics. // Dr Jay Piccirillo and his team examined data from 29,102 adults with a diagnosis of acute sinusit...

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

...and colleagues from Leuven, in Belgium, set out to determine whether it is the pharmacological properties of antihypertensive drugs or the reduction of blood pressure that accounts for the cardiovascular outcome in hypertensive patients. // As part of a meta-analysis the team compared blood pressure reducing...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

...ew the lining of the milk ducts from the inside to determine the presence of cancerous cells before they spread beyond the ducts. Images are relayed to television screens from which doctors can evaluate cells for the presence of pre-malignant changes. If abnormalities are spotted, biopsy of the affected area c...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...r life. Dr Glover said more research was needed to determine why stress should impact on development. "One possible reason is that stress raises the levels of hormones such as nor-adrenalin, which is known to constrict the blood vessels and decrease blood flow," she said. "Another possible mechanism is that ...

Detection of Cancer

...be run by the National Health Science Centre, will determine the sensitivity of the C-Test in detecting cancers. The hope is that it will complement existing diagnostic procedures, and thereby improve the accuracy of cancer detection. The first stage of the test, C-Test1, uses a technique called mass spectrom...

Better Treatment for obesity

...EA works on a cellular and molecular level, and to determine whether OEA has appetite-suppressing effects in humans, the researcher noted....

Cirrhosis linked to genes

...oup of UK doctors suggest that genetic factors may determine those at increased risk of developing liver disease from drinking alcohol.Researchers at the University of Newcastle believe that certain genes trigger a strong immune reaction in response to alcohol which then damages the liver. Dr Vander West, wh...

Cardiac diseases develop early

..., stroke and kidney disease. Researchers wanted to determine if high blood pressure is related to other heart d...vels of obesity. While researchers were unable to determine the reason why the boys' data differed from the girls', they speculated that it may relate to an ove...

Too much coffee is too bad

... with increased bone loss.Until it is practical to determine each person’s VDR genotype, physicians should recommend both adequate dietary calcium and moderate caffeine comsumption for their elderly patients. ...

Lecithin lowers cholesterol absorption in body

...oduced into the blood,” Koo said. “We were able to determine experimentally that a substantial amount of the egg cholesterol is not going into the blood stream.” The compounds are naturally occurring or derived from their natural precursors which could lead directly to development of new compounds for lowerin...

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Directly to Brain

... then tested various motor and sensory reflexes to determine if the rats' symptoms were decreased, indicating that the drug had reached its target.The test results indicated that the drug had “been successfully diffused in brain tissue,” Frey said. Asked about the implications of Frey's work, Dr. Philip Gorel...

Mislabeled Body-building Steroid Supplements

...purchased in stores. They analyzed the products to determine whether or not all of the ingredients listed on the label were actually contained in the product, if stated amounts were found and if the products contained any substances not found on the label. Eleven of the 12 products did not meet label claims ...

Body can reshape heart damage

...male characteristics, the researchers were able to determine which cells came from the female donor and which belonged to the male recipient. But the researchers found cells throughout the female heart that contained a Y chromosome. In some samples from the heart, more than 45 percent of the cells carried th...

More People Seeking Treatment for Depression

...rom national surveys conducted in 1987 and 1997 to determine the trends Americans are following in depression treatment. According to the researchers, overall outpatient treatment for depression increased threefold in the 10-year period. However, symptom management has gone through a major transformation in th...

Smoking Linked To Low Infant Birth Weight

...tibility.// The finding could help medicine better determine the causes of low birth weight, though the researchers said they were not recommending at this point that women be screened for presence of the genes involved. "Our data demonstrate that a subgroup of pregnant women with certain genotypes appeared ...

Science of swooning

...ional levels after having a non-alcoholic drink to determine how much their blood vessels tightened in response to a drop in blood pressure. The tests were then repeated on another day after the subjects had drunk two to three beers. During the alcohol-free tests, vessels constricted normally and blood press...

Smoke less to stay young

...nderstand their cigarette comsumption patterns and determine their level of nicotine dependency. Among the young people who said they had smoked only once or twice in the month before the interview, 11.5 percent displayed one or more symptoms of addiction. According to Jennifer O'Loughlin, chief author of the...

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