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Online Education Program Better Source of Information for Patients

...F, reported a greater understanding of their heart medications than other heart patients who used other Internet ... patients reported a greater tendency to use their medications as prescribed by their doctor, researchers said. "It's beneficial for patients to be educated in t...

Most Pediatric Chemotherapy Mistakes Reach Patients

...ic cancers. However, they are among the most toxic medications used today. Calculating dose, route, and frequency...tion administration safeguards for these high risk medications and consider different and specific solutions for inpatient and outpatient pediatric oncology units ...

Study Tests Depression Treatment for Diabetes Patients

...type 2 diabetes, she said, and that antidepressant medications have been effective in treating depression in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Program ACTIVE is the researchers way of doing something about the situation. To meet the depression criterion for Program ACTIVE, patients must have felt consi...

Bronchial Thermoplasty: Boon to Severe Asthma Patients?

... the bronchial thermoplasty procedure and standard medications showed clinically and statistically significant im...asthma people who despite taking state-of-the-art medications are still experiencing the disruptive and distressing symptoms of their asthma," states Glen French,...

Personality Changes may Help to Identify a Form of Dementia

...e diagnosis is particularly important because some medications used to treat the mental health symptoms of Alzhei... important as newer, potentially disease-modifying medications are developed. It also gives the patient and family members more time to plan for the progressive de...

Simple Tool Developed for Diabetics to Improve Compliance With Medications

... 'Conversations with patients about prescription medications tend to be brief and incomplete, but we found that when a decision aid was introduced, it was the start of a conversation in which the patient -- now better equipped with information -- felt empowered to participate in deciding whether a statin would...

Regular Exercise may Slightly Increase HDL Levels

...g HDL-C level might be smaller than that by use of medications such as fibrates or niacin.' Only exercise duration, and not frequency or intensity, was associated with a change in HDL-C levels in the analysis. When the participants exercised for 23 to 74 minutes per session, each 10-minute increase in exercise...

Combination Therapies Continue to Thrive Among Pharma Brands

...that combination therapies - combining two or more medications into one formulation - continue to be viable, affordable options for pharmaceutical brand teams to pursue and grow product franchise value. Cutting Edge Information's report "Pharmaceutical Product Relaunch: Preserving Market Share through Line Ext...

Use Caution With All Pain Medications, Warns Experts

...ow, research suggests that some commonly used pain medications -- not just the now-banned Vioxx -- can raise the risk of having a heart attack or stroke. New step-by-step recommendations from the American Heart Association (AHA) can help you choose a pain reliever that's good for both the heart and stomach, repo...

Brain Inflammation A Friend for Alzheimer's Patients

...ion notes that some studies have found that taking medications to squelch inflammation, such non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs, might help reduce a persons chances of getting Alzheimers disease, while other studies, including a study of more than 2,100 people published in April, refute that notion....

Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

...develop their own vaccinations and treatments when medications aren't available due to the blockade, or when they don't exist. For decades, Cuba has sent doctors abroad and trained international students at its medical schools. But things ramped up beginning in 1998 when Hurricanes George and Mitch hammered Ce...

China is Cracking Down on Food Safety

...ndals related to poor quality of food products and medications in ChinaThe Chinese Government has also stepped up its patrols in recent weeks, announcing a series of measures aimed at strengthening food and drug safety and cracking down on counterfeiting operations. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu was qu...

Patients Advised for Using Rosiglitazone to See Their Doctor - ADA

...r, that they should not stop taking any prescribed medications without first discussing the issue with their health care provider. The most life-threatening consequences of diabetes are heart disease and stroke, which strike people with diabetes more than twice as often as they do others. If you have diabetes,...

Novel Markers for the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

... mania, and also provide new targets, for improved medications many of which are being tested in clinical trials. . Mary Phillips, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of functional neuroimaging in emotional disorders at Western Psychiatric Institute and ...

Take Precautions Before You Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet

...unts of contamination in water because not all the medications get removed by sewage treatment systems, revealed ...ociation (APhA) recommends: Do not flush unused medications down the toilet. It is also recommended against pouring unused medications down the drain. Crus...

Ages Eases the Pain of Migraine

...octors are still searching for treatments. Triptan medications are available in the market but it is not suitable for people with heart disease and it does not work for one third of the migraine sufferers. Researchers from the Merck Drug presented its finding on a new migraine pill. The pill considerably erase...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...a drug-resistant strain that requires several more medications than drug-sensitive cases do; about 30,000 of these 420,000 cases are even more difficult and expensive to treat, the highly lethal XDR-TB....

Canadian Court Rules Grocery Shops can Sell Cold Medications Containing Pseudoephedrine

...ege of Pharmacists preventing grocers from selling medications containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, such as ...cision was made last year to address concerns that medications containing pseudoephedrine were being used to make crystal meth. Methamphetamine (methylamphetami...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...ortant questions are these: is there evidence that medications are safe and effective? what are the known benefits and risks, and what uncertainties exist with regard to future benefit and harm? who should be using such medications? are women provided with accurate information to make informed choices? Source-...

Malfunction of Gene Causes Schizophrenia, Depression

...o mutant strains "might provide clues to effective medications for these patient groups. "Indeed, these mice could represent a model system to explore novel treatment and preventative strategies for certain symptoms of major mental illness." They wrote that "our findings lend further credence to the growing...

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