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Popular Anemia Drug Dodges The Dagger

...ng time to provide safety data for their drug. "We prescribe this drug to a million people a year and only now are we seriously examining if how we are treating them is harmful?" says Dr. Ajay K. Singh, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "That's very disconcerting." <...

Health Expert’s Appeal to Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malari

...re available, but not the doctors or the nurses to prescribe those medicines adequately." It would be a strategic mistake, say the authors, for the Global Fund to create such a "Medicines Without Doctors" situation. "The Global Fund has an advantage that makes it a key actor in the field of supporting heal...

‘For-profit Dialysis Centers’ in the Spotlight Over Anti-anemia Drug Overdoe

...tom line figures rule the roost, and these centers prescribe overdoses of anti-anemia drugs to realize higher hemoglobin levels in the patients. The study which is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, demonstrates how over dosing patients with anti-anemia drugs could endanger their l...

Doctors in UK Promoting Awareness of Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease

...e of acid in the stomach and intestines. Doctors prescribe the PPIs to treat people with heartburn (acid reflux), ulcers of the stomach or intestine, or excess stomach acid (Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome). Gastro-oesophageal reflux is a condition where the lower oesophageal sphincter (the muscular ring at the...

Rajasthan Directs Doctors to Prescribe Medicines by Generic Names

...ted doctors in government-run medical hospitals to prescribe medicines by their generic names.// An official ...tres, community health centres and dispensaries to prescribe only the generic names of medicines and not the branded ones. "In spite of our constant reminders,...

Scientists Concerned About Gonorrhea’s Drug Resistanc

...of options to treat this serious disease. Doctors prescribe a group of commonly used antibiotics including fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin) as a treatment for the disease. But the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the sexual disorder-that affects 700,0...

Combined Imaging Approach may Be Effective in Diagnosing Some Brain Clots

...hronic instead of acute, it could alter the way we prescribe anticoagulation (clot-busting) drugs to treat the symptoms," says Leach. "Further research is needed to see if this can effectively impact patient therapy clinically." Source-Eurekaler SRM/B...

Combined Imaging Approach may Provide Better Identification of Difficult-to-diagnose Brain Clots

...hronic instead of acute, it could alter the way we prescribe anticoagulation (clot-busting) drugs to treat the symptoms," says Leach. "Further research is needed to see if this can effectively impact patient therapy clinically." Source-Eurekaler MED/B...

Anti-aging Treatment Becoming Popular in US, but Experts Skeptical

...ral definition of "hormone deficiency" in order to prescribe human growth hormone. Mainstream physicians say such treatment should generally be reserved for children with growth problems. Whatever the objections, A4M’s personalized attention and all the pep talk is getting it more and more converts. The 4...

Alberta Pharmacists Entitled to Prescribe Medicines

... – A new ruling in Alberta empowers pharmacists to prescribe medicines to patients suffering minor medical conditions. Now, pharmacists in Alberta// will be allowed to take a decision on the treatment for minor conditions and make modifications to dosages or prescriptions given by doctors. Though this ruling...

Hope for Ending the Pain, Infertility of Endometriosis?

... System Endometriosis Center. Physicians sometimes prescribe pain killers or oral contraceptives to diminish the woman’s period and therefore reduce her pain, and hormones that suppress ovarian function and therefore suppress the estrogen that “seems to feed these lesions,” he says. Surgical options include...

Constipation Drug Linked to Heart Attack Pulled Out

...e, associated with use of the drug.' Doctors who prescribe Zelnorm should work with their patients and switch over to more appropriate treatment, the FDA has said. GP...

Scientists Explore Ways to Lure Viruses to Their Death

...nages to establish itself, a doctor may be able to prescribe a drug to slow down its spread. And if all else fails, a doctor may quarantine a patient to head off an epidemic. Now some scientists are exploring a fundamentally different strategy to fight viruses. They want to wipe them out by luring them to th...

French 'euthanasia Doctor' Avoids Jail

...ring questioning, Tramois defended her decision to prescribe the lethal potassium injection, stating she had wanted to preserve her patient's dignity. Druais had developed intestinal complications that could have led to fecal vomiting, the doctor argued. But investigators maintained that the decision had b...

New Reason to Hit the Gym: Fighting Memory Loss

...mal memory loss, so that physicians may be able to prescribe specific types of exercise to improve memory,” said Dr. Small, who is also a research scholar at the Columbia University Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain. Source-Newswie SRM...

Programs to Prevent Falls Among Elders Not Doing Their Work

...res.' In retrospect ,Cumming advices doctors to prescribe more conservatively and patients to be cautious during adaptation to new eye glasses. More than 1000 people above the age of 65 die from falls every year in Australia and more than 45,000 are admitted to hospital. Thirty per cent of people aged ...

Doctors Put on Their Dancing Shoes to De-stress

... have decided how to beat the blues away. And they prescribe this for the world at large. So, jive away to glory! Source-IANS R.S...

Patient Sets Medical Counsellor on Fire

...that he did not have AIDS and there was no need to prescribe any medicines. At this, Jaiswal got enraged, doused the counsellor with kerosene and set him ablaze. Shrivastava was rushed to the hospital in the medical college campus and his condition is reported to be serious. The police have arrested the as...

Prescribing Off Label Drugs for Children may Be Hazardous

...drug for any indicated use, physicians may legally prescribe the drug for different conditions and for patients in other age groups. This study measured off-label use only as defined by age, not by indicated conditions. "With nearly 80 percent of children receiving off-label medications during hospitalizatio...

Dance to De-stress

... have decided how to beat the blues away. And they prescribe this for the world at large. Source-IANS...

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