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Need More And Better Drugs To Tackle Stoke

...ugh it has been a major cause of death doctors are prescribing the same drug that was discovered ten years ago. //There has not been any new significant study on the treatment of stroke patients. Thee dug activase was the drug that created a major break through in the treatment of stroke and is still the only ...

GPs In Wales Support Minister on Prescribing Issue

...nister on the introduction of nurse and pharmacist prescribing in Wales. Doctors are highly trained professionals...nd pharmacists could fulfill many obligations like prescribing for many self-limiting illnesses that do not need the attention of a GP. "We will wait to see the tr...

Walk-In Health Centers Launched By The NHS For Commuters

...s and pharmacists the additional responsibility of prescribing medicines and requesting doctors plan for open surgeries during the weekend. With such issues currently under consideration, a dramatic improvement in the existing National Health Services (NHS) is likely to happen soon....

Contraceptive Pills Don’t Result In Weight Gai

...rt because of the ethical implications involved in prescribing a placebo to women who do not want to conceive. These studies showed no difference in weight gain between those on the pill and those not. Nor was there an effect on appetite. Edited (ANI)...

Cancer Patient Protests Before Assembly

...her the patients will benefit from the drug before prescribing it. In the meantime, other women who suffer from the disease have joined Ms Sullivan in the protest....

Ethics -Beacon for Medical Research

...ilable negative research findings which may affect prescribing practices, especially if the medication is already on the market and the advent of the Internet means that pharmaceutical companies now have a vehicle for publicizing their own results to a mass audience, so there is no excuse for withholding negati...

Antidepressants still being prescribed to Teenagers despite being banned!

...ime education. "Despite warnings by experts that prescribing antidepressant medicines for children and young people can lead to an increased risk of suicide, these figures show doctors have carried on regardless. These figures should be ringing alarm bells at the Department of Health and calling into question ...

Medicare Drug Plans Are Onerous and Restrictive

...ny's Web site has 39 forms for doctors to use when prescribing certain drugs for Coventry Medicare plans, marketed under the name AdvantraRx. At the top of each form is a logo saying AdvantraRx: Medicare prescription drug plans made easy. But then he said that each drug has a unique clinical criterion that must ...

Warfarin the Not So Popular Drug for Stroke

... most common reasons that physicians cited for not prescribing warfarin were hemorrhage, falls, and patient refusal or history of nonadherence, mental impairment, alcohol abuse and advanced illness. Hence it is necessary for further research to find an alternative stroke prevention strategies that don't increase...

Heart Disease Can Be Avoided By Tackling The Cholesterol Early

...se measures are not enough, another possibility is prescribing cholesterol-lowering drugs such as statins to young adults. But this idea has not been well tested in clinical trials. Developing drugs that mimic the effects of the LDL-lowering might also offer a way to combat rising cholesterol, the researchers...

Proposal to license Ayurveda Practitioners in the US

...r training might end up making wrong diagnoses and prescribing wrong treatments, making the patient sicker and delaying correct treatment. Mishra has also expressed concern over the prescription of ayurvedic drugs by people who are not formally trained. Ayurvedic drugs use animal, mineral and vegetable-based p...

Cancer Patients Protest For Free Drug Treatment

...ir doctor recommends it and they meet the clinical prescribing guidelines for Herceptin....

Antibiotics Used In Food Animals Causes Antibiotic Resistance In People

... to drugs is generally attributed to inappropriate prescribing or overuse of antibiotics. Australia has hence adopted a solution to the drug resistance problem that has been to prohibit the use of certain antibiotics, called fluoroquinolones, in food animals such as poultry. This policy has put Australia in a ...

European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Recommends Herceptin For Early Stage Breast Cancer

... of today's decision, any PCT still wavering about prescribing Herceptin, should now have the confidence to make it available to all for whom it is recommended." ...

Nurses to Prescribe Drugs

...tion only medicines where as pharmacists have been prescribing in partnership with doctors from 2003. These power...nce" in improving accessibility. A post-graduate prescribing training course has been recommended to nurses and pharmacists in order to take on their new roles. ...

Mental Hospitals Offer More Problems than Solutions

..."failed to detect these symptoms and even consider prescribing other medications with less harmful side effects," they wrote....

Hypertension Not Given Priority during Treatment

...taken (17.55%) or adding an additional drug and/or prescribing a fixed combination compound (35%). Nearly one-in-three of the primary care physicians (30%) considered that no change was required, and nearly two-thirds (65%) suggested improving compliance to non-pharmacological changes such as diet and exercise. ...

A New Study Feels That The UK heart drug Guidelines Not Enough

...ng up to 9,000 lives a year. He explained, "Statin prescribing is one key weapon in the NHS's armoury when in comes to managing cardiovascular risk”. At the same time he cautioned that this needs to go in hand with a huge programme of educating people to change their unhealthy lifestyle and tackle the risk facto...

Consumer Court Dismisses India’s Biggest Ever Medical Error Clai

...would be limited in case of apparent deficiency in prescribing dose of medicine, i.e., in cases where doctors have not taken reasonable degree of care in prescribing a particular dose of medicine,' said the order given by a three-member panel led by NCDRC president ...

Studies Show Combination Drugs As A Poor Substitute For Anti-Coagulants In Stroke

...the doctors, Furlan and Connolly said they are now prescribing aspirin for people with atrial fibrillation for those who are not suitable for warfarin treatment.But Connolly explained that this could change, he said that another section of the trail that is still being conducted is comparing the combination of c...

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