prescribed 1 3

Tag: "prescribed" at medical news

Dealing with personality disorders

...e serotonin reuptake inhibitors, called SSRIs were prescribed for treatment of borderline personality disorder symptoms....

Thalidomide may stage a comeback

... being reassessed to find out if it could again be prescribed to patients to treat rare forms of cancer and leprosy. The drug which is unlicensed in Europe was marketed in the 50s and 60s as a cure for morning// sickness. However, it was banned after mothers who took it gave birth to deformed children. The Eur...

Children! Protecting them from medical mistakes

...activities that might be necessary when a child is prescribed a particular medicine. The fact sheet will be distributed to 57,000 pediatricians and to groups representing children and parents. Medicine-related medical errors can occur when a child is given the wrong medicine or is given the wrong dose of medic...

Type of inhaler used in asthma treatment crucial

...rs are dying needlessly because they are not being prescribed the most suitable inhalers. The study compared lev...ditional "press and breathe" devices more commonly prescribed by doctors. Professor David Price, who led the study, said that there are a wide variety of inhaler...

SARS: India's drugs in demand

... used for treating pneumonia, are the favored drug prescribed by medical pfsractitioners at present. Macrolides include drugs such as erythromycin, azithromycin, clarithromycin and roxithromycin. They are particularly useful in the treatment of lower respiratory track infections....

Hormone Therapy Linked to Dementia

...ers say the combined hormone therapy should not be prescribed to women with the intent of enhancing cognitive performance because it has the opposite effect. They write, "The WHIMS estrogen plus progestin data reinforce the conclusion that the risks of estrogen plus progestin outweigh the benefits."...

Night Time Aspirin Regimen Found to Reduce Blood Pressure

...line and after completion of three-months of their prescribed regimen. Each participant received an ambulatory monitoring device during the monitoring periods. Automatic measurements for systolic blood pressure, mean arterial blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate occurred every 20 minutes bet...

Stroke and the Pill

... family history of stroke, and diabetes, should be prescribed the pill with caution...

In Chronic Diseases - Poor compliance of Patients with drug treatment

...the contrary, adherence to those medicines already prescribed will result in a significant decrease in the overall health budget," said Dr Eduardo Sabaté, Medical Officer, WHO. "This is due to the reduction in the need for more costly interventions, such as frequent and longer hospitalizations, unnecessary use ...

Study supports vegetable diet

...er bad cholesterol as effectively as some commonly prescribed drugs, a new study found, suggesting medication-free cholesterol control may be viable for some people. Researchers from the University of Toronto showed that a diet heavy in okra, eggplant, soy proteins, oatmeal //and almonds resulted in a 28.6 per ...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...oved for use in 1963 and became the country's most prescribed drug from 1969 to 1982. Valium also was referred t...r refills. Still, benzodiazepines remain the most prescribed anxiety drugs, partly because they start working as fast as one hour, slowing brain activity. They a...

Hormone-replacement therapy could hurt heart

...ostmenopausal women. "This treatment should not be prescribed for the prevention of cardiovascular disease," the authors concluded....

Antibiotics May Help Prevent Strokes

...oblems. Ultimately, we may one day see antibiotics prescribed to otherwise healthy people simply as means of preventing stroke, he added....

Low-Dose Hormones Help the Bones

...sability in older women. Estrogen therapy is often prescribed to prevent osteoporosis. However, many women are r...s of one quarter of the dose of estrogen typically prescribed for conventional hormone therapy. Researchers included 167 women older than 65 in the study. The wom...

Teen dies after complications from abortion pill

...ic September 10 to take the pill. She followed the prescribed procedure for using RU-486, taking two more pills at home three days later. After experiencing bleeding and cramps so severe that she was unable to walk, her boyfriend rushed her to the hospital the following evening, where she was given painkillers...

Evening,the best time to take Cholesterol Drug

...night as opposed to the morning. Statins are drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol.// Researchers from England studied 83 patients who were taking either 10 milligrams or 20 milligrams of simvastatin, otherwise known as Zocor. They were taking the drug for primary or secondary prevention of coronary heart dise...

Antidepressants Harmful for Kids

...ty and effectiveness of SSRIs -- the most commonly prescribed antidepressants -- shows the drugs’ benefits do not outweigh their risks when prescribed to children. SSRIs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Regulators say the drugs’ effectiven...

Inhaled Corticosteroids Found To Have No Significant Effect On COPD

...tudied more than 2,650 patients with COPD who were prescribed inhaled corticosteroids for at least 80 percent of a 90-day period. Nearly 5,400 patients who had never used inhaled corticosteroids served as the comparing group. Results of the study show patients who used inhaled corticosteroids did not have a l...

Human Growth Hormone Found To be Dangerous For Human Use

...hormone each decade. In recent years, doctors have prescribed daily injections of HGH to boost levels in patient...man growth hormone and researchers feel it’s being prescribed to too many people who don’t really nee it....

New Medication May Decrease The Frequency Of Angina Attacks

...d that when added to a standard dose of frequently prescribed antianginal drugs, ranolazine can reduce both the angina frequency and nitroglycerin consumption. When compared to the placebo results, the decrease in angina attacks were slightly less than one per week for those in the 750 mg group and somewhat mor...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10