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Ovary removal to lead to Dementia

... To reduce the risk of this disease surgeons often prescribe the removal the ovaries. Researchers led by Walter Rocca at Mayo Clinic studied 2,511 women who had these operations between 1950 and 1987 and matched them with the women who did not undergo ovary removal, reported health portal WebMD. Rocca's te...

Drug Xeloda as effective as Traditional Chemotherapy

... this in turn could prompt healthcare providers to prescribe it over the cheaper although more time-consuming treatment with intravenous chemotherapy, supporting the higher sales potential view of Xeloda. Currently patients spend almost five days in every three weeks in hospital to receive treatment. Xeloda ...

Nurses Help Sought To Check Teenage Pregnancies In English Schools

... service because they are "able to assess need and prescribe appropriate medication/provide specialist contraception advice for the future". They can also help pupils who are concerned with "issues of sexual identity", for example if they are gay or bisexual. --Edited IANS...

Private Public Partnership To Tackle TB, In Karnataka

...private practitioners to help take up the DOTS and prescribe the regimen,' he said in a statement, calling out for help to combat the worst humanity killer. According to official reports, approximately 203 per lakh persons are being affected with the respiratory disease, every year, in the state. Out of this...

Drugs Are Effective In Treating Depression and Preventing Recurrence

... in patients so old. It encouraged some doctors to prescribe antidepressants for longer periods, perhaps even for life, in patients who have been depressed. Taking tablets for depression is similar to taking medicines for controlling blood pressure or diabetes. The results were published in the New England Jo...

Norfolk PCTs To Offer Herceptin

...itive to it and it needs prescribing, then we will prescribe it." Some guidelines have been put into place for the women to be eligible to take the drug. Firstly a woman must test positive for the HER-2 receptor. But since only 20 percent carry this receptors, it is felt that this decision will only benefit a ...

Warfarin the Not So Popular Drug for Stroke

...strokes. It was also found that physicians don't prescribe warfarin for patients over the age of 80 who have ...ates to determine the reasons why physicians don't prescribe warfarin for patients with atrial fibrillation followed 405 patients age 65 or older who were admitt...

Drug Makers Banned From Providing Gifts To Doctors

...by physicians. Doctors associated with the concern prescribe highly marketed drugs in a much lower frequency compared to their counterparts, without compromise on the quality of the medical care....

Sri Lanka Gets The Help Of Healthcare Professionals

...ntribute to the acute need for health providers to prescribe mobility aides such as artificial limbs and braces. The absence of special care can lead to advanced stages of disability or can even become fatal. There is also the danger of severe emotional trauma to individuals without the appropriate products fo...

Bush’s new prescription drug plan, a complex puzzle for the citizen

...were asked to take it back to their doctors for to prescribe a medication manufactured by their chosen plan that matched their medical needs. The worst affected are the senior citizens when they found out that the plans keeps changing according to the change in the medical needs. The members of Medicaid sa...

Nurse Practitioners Are Not Recognized By Medicare

...s such as X-rays, treat them for minor problems,// prescribe them drugs or refer them to a specialist. A lot ...its Scheme-PBS (federal program). O'Connell can prescribe to the patients and they get the money covered by the Medicare if it is dispensed from the hospital'...

GPs In Wales Support Minister on Prescribing Issue

...der this nurses and pharmacists are// eligible to prescribe in Wales. The move has been widely criticized, but the BMA's GP committee endorsed this suggestion. "GPC Wales welcomes the statement of the Health Minister on the introduction of nurse and pharmacist prescribing in Wales. Doctors are highly train...

More Exercise Recommended For Fitness Of Cardiac Patients

...y risk their lives. GPs are concerned that if they prescribe exercise and the patient drops dead, they will be sued. We think about half of patients miss out completely because it's a disincentive. The guidelines basically say that's not true -- more than half of patients can and should do an exercise program,...

Mystery Of The Placebo Effect, Yet To Be Solved

...d to various problems in our body. Hence doctors prescribe placebo instead of medicines. Patients are under the impression that they are given proper medication for the treatment of the disease and get well soon. Hence it is a boon for the patients. On the other hand the placebo effect is very confusing fo...

AIDS Patients Deceived By Private Health Care System In China

...ment of a resistance from physicians who prefer to prescribe costly medicines rather than giving away free medication....

Revlimid Approved For Treatment Of Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) by FDA

...m (doctors and pharmacists) would be authorized to prescribe or market Revlimid. This is expected to reduce the probability of fetal exposure to the teratogenic drug. ...

Older generation might pose a threat to increase the NHS budget

...increase in the need for statins which the doctors prescribe for the heart patients to reduce cholesterol. But as of now this drug is the sole constituent in the National Health Sector (NHS) budget and they expect it to rise further. The cost of the other medical facilities like the operative procedures, va...

Obesity: Digestive Disorders Come In The Way Of Exercise

...octors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise as part of a regime to take off pounds. But researchers led by psychologist Rona Levy at the University of Washington have found that some people's ability to exercise may be hampered by a variety of gastrointestinal problems that frequent...

A Change In Lifestyle Can Help In Weight Reduction

...its. The Guidelines also recommend that physicians prescribe a regimen of lifestyle therapy for at least six months before adding weight-loss medication to the regimen. Source: The New England Jounal of Medicine...

Doctors Do Not Excise Sufficient Caution While Prescribing High-Risk Drugs

... medication by the FDA, doctors have been found to prescribe such medicines to ambulatory care patients. The percentage of patients found to receive // such drugs was nearly 42% according to a survey conducted by Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. The response of the doctors to comply wi...

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