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For Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, 89 Percent of Surveyed Endocrinologists Identify a Need for Additional GLP-1 Analogues and 71 Percent Say the Same About DPP-IV Inhibitors

WALTHAM, Mass., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that most surveyed clinicians identify a need for additional therapies from the GLP-1 analogue and DPP-IV inhibitor drug clas...

Elder Care Expert Doctor Marion Receives Accolades from Lehman College, Mature Market Resource Center in Same Week

NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationally-recognized elder care expert Doctor Marion(R) ( www.doctormarion.com ), author of "Elder Care Made Easier," has received two different accolades in one week, reinforcing her dedication to providing resources and support to millions of people caring for a...

Death rates same for diabetes and heart disease patients receiving drug therapy or surgery

NEW ORLEANS, June 7 There is no difference in mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes and stable heart disease who received prompt bypass surgery or angioplasty compared to drug therapy alone, according to a landmark study focused exclusively on patients with both conditions. The study, whi...

Investigation finds that cigarette smoking does not affect everyone in same way

This release is available in French . Montreal, June 4th, 2009 Cigarette smoking induced COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a disease that results in severe breathing difficulty. According to World Health Organization (WHO) it is the fourth leading killer worldwide. Howev...

Sinobiopharma Announces 350% Increase in Production of Its Flagship Drug in the First Quarter of 2009 Over the Same Period in 2008

NANTONG CITY, China, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sinobiopharma, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNBP) ("Sinobiopharma" or, the "Company") is pleased to announce that production of its flagship drug, Cisatracurium Besylate, increased by 350% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to production in the...

Vegan Buddhist nuns have same bone density as non-vegetarians

A study comparing the bone health of 105 post-menopausal vegan Buddhist nuns and 105 non-vegetarian women, matched in every other physical respect, has produced a surprising result. Their bone density was identical. The study was led by Professor Tuan Nguyen from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Me...

New Ohio Ad Campaign Calls for Taxing All Tobacco Products at Same Rate

Increased Tax Would Raise Critical Funds for State Tobacco Prevention Programs COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- All tobacco products - including spit and chew tobacco and flavored little cigars - are addictive and harm health, and should be taxed at the same rate as cigare...

Investors who 'gamble' in the stock market have same characteristics as lottery players

AUSTIN, TexasThe socioeconomic characteristics of people who play state lotteries are similar to investors who pick stocks with a lottery qualityhigh risk with a small potential for high return, and just like the lottery, returns on average are lower for those who invest this way in the stock mark...

OrthoSynetics(TM) Same Practice New Contracts and Consults Growing Despite Economic Downturn

DALLAS, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- OrthoSynetics(TM), the largest provider of business services to orthodontic and dental practices worldwide, announced that in the last two months of 2008, despite the economic downturn, same practices contracts increased 3% and consults increased 10%. This i...

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust delivers same day patient discharge via BigHand Digital Dictation

One of the largest rollouts of Digital Dictation technology within the NHS produces significant efficiency gains. London, UK (PRWEB) January 7, 2009 -- BigHand has today announced that Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has implemented the BigHand digital...

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences - New Name, Same Commitment to the Advancement of Health Care

New Name Reflects Range of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs Now Offered at the College ALBANY, N.Y., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees, in conjunction with President James J. Gozzo, Ph.D., announced today that Albany College of Pharmacy has expanded its name to become Albany...

John McCain's Health Care Plan Based on Same Policies That Are Causing Wall Street Meltdown

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Every day, another financial institution shutters its doors. Over 600,000 thousand U.S. jobs have been lost so far this year. Gas, food, and health care prices are through the roof. The writing is on the wall: the American economy is teetering on...

Coromega Hits Store Shelves with Fresh New Look : One-of-a-Kind Omega-3 Squeeze Packet Offers Same Superior Absorption with Mouth-Watering New Packaging Design

Premier supplements maker Coromega today unveiled a new look for its revolutionary Omega-3 Squeeze, a portable, single-dose packet that is clinically proven to deliver 300 percent better absorption than softgels.1 Coromega’s packaging was redesigned to highlight the supplement’s great...

When it comes to abstinence teens, adults aren't speaking the same language

Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults. That's one reason why abstinence-only programs do not have strong effects in preventing teenage sexual activity, according to new University of Washington research. "Interventions that have been created to encourage abstinen...

It's the Same Old Song: 'Accentuate the Positive' as New York State Department of Health Releases Statewide Hospital Infection Rates

Statement From the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) NEW YORK, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "These are not facts to be proud of," says Betsy McCaughey, Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former Lt. Governor of New York State. The New York State Hospital-...

Chubb Expects to Release Earnings on July 24 and Hold Conference Call on the Same Day

WARREN, N.J., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Chubb Corporation (NYSE: CB ) expects to release second quarter 2008 earnings on Thursday, July 24, 2008 after the close of the market. The press release and financial supplement will be available shortly thereafter on Chubb's website at ht...

Women Get Lung Cancer From Smoking at Same Rates as Men

Health experts had debated whether women were more vulnerable to the disease FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Women who smoke are just as likely to get lung cancer as men who smoke, a large U.S. study found. But, women who never smoked appear to be at greater risk of lung cancer ...

Formula Puts Doctor, Patient Glucose Readings on Same Page

Math converts two systems into better measurement, study says SATURDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have found a mathematical relationship between two common blood glucose measurements that can help diabetics better monitor their condition. An international study, publish...

Prevalence of pre-cancerous masses in the colon same in patients in their 40s and 50s

The prevalence of pre-cancerous masses in the colon is the same for average-risk patients who are 40 to 49 years of age and those who are 50 to 59 years of age, reports a new study in Gastroenterology , the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Curr...

Mayo Clinic study shows acupuncture and myofascial trigger therapy treat same pain areas

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Ancient acupuncture and modern myofascial pain therapy each focus on hundreds of similar points on the body to treat pain, although they do it differently, says a physician at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville who analyzed the two techniques. Results of the study, published May 10...

End-stage dementia patients deserve the same access to palliative care as people with cancer

There is an urgent need to improve end-of-life care for older people in the final stages of dementia, according to an international review published in the May issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing. We must act now to stop people with dementia from suffering from protracted, potentially uncomfo...

Costs Can Vary By $100 or More for Same Drugs

It pays to shop around for the best prescription prices, survey finds MONDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Prices of prescription drugs can vary by $100 or more for the same drug from store to store -- and even within the same chain. So it pays to shop around, a new survey found. But t...

Consumer Reports: Some Drug Prices Can Vary By $100 or More for the Same Bottle of Pills

New Survey of More Than 40,000 Readers Gives High Marks To Independent Drugstores For Service, Knowledge, and Speed; Sheds Light On Evolving Consumer-Pharmacist Relationship YONKERS, N.Y., May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For consumers who pay for all or most of their prescription drugs ou...

Profarma's Gross Revenues Reached R$ 702.6 Million in the 1st Quarter 2008, a 26.5% Growth Over the Same Period Last Year

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- One of Brazil's leading distributors of pharmaceutical products, Profarma Distribuidora de Produtos Farmaceuticos S.A. ("Profarma" or the "Company") (Bovespa: PFRM3) has just announced its results for the first quarter of 2008 (1Q08). ...

Uninsured kids in middle class have same unmet needs as poor

Nationwide, uninsured children in families earning between $38,000 and $77,000 a year are just as likely to go without any health care as uninsured children in poorer families. More than 40 percent of children in those income brackets who are uninsured all year see no physicians and have no prescr...

New Study -- Same Result! Comprehensive Sex Education Works

WASHINGTON, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Adolescents receiving comprehensive sex education had a substantially lower risk of teenage pregnancy than students who received either abstinence-only education or no education at all, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Jo...

High Performing Sales Forces Follow Same Path to Excellence

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet has changed the way organizations communicate with customers but industry leaders haven't lost sight of the value of an effective sales force. It takes face-to-face interactions to build a relationship and high performing sales groups --...

Yoga Journal Circulation Increases 5.8 Percent in Second Half of 2007 from Same Period Previous Year

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the recently released Audit Bureau of Circulations FAS-FAX report, Yoga Journal (yogajournal.com) saw an increase of 5.8 percent paid circulation in the period from July 2007 through December 2007, from the same period in the previous year. T...

Despite polarized opinions, Democrats and Republicans perform same amount of 'green' actions

FAIRFAX, Va., January 31, 2008Political party affiliation has little bearing on the number of green actions people take, a new study by Porter Novelli and George Mason University shows. According to the survey of more than 11,000 American adults and nearly 1,000 of their children, Democrats and Re...

Cancer study finds adolescents don't get same access to latest treatments as younger patients

The overall survival rate from cancer now is lower in older adolescents and young adults with cancer than in younger children, in part because of a lack of access to clinical trials nationally for the older age group, according to a study by pediatric oncologists at Childrens Hospital of Pittsburg...

New Study - Same Verdict

Abstinence-Only Programs Don't Work! WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the release of Emerging Answers 2007: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease, a report authored by Douglas Kirby, Ph.D., a leading researcher in adolesce...

Profarma's Gross Revenues Reached R$ 698.2 Million in the 3rd Quarter 2007, a 31.9% Growth Over the Same Period Last Year and Net Income Rose by 94.9%, Respectively

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- One of Brazil's leading distributors of pharmaceutical products, Profarma Distribuidora de Produtos Farmaceuticos S.A. ("Profarma" or the "Company") (Bovespa: PFRM3) has just announced its results for the third quarter of 2007 (3Q07). Pr...

Both good/bad movie characters who smoke influence teens to do the same

HANOVER, NH Dartmouth researchers have determined that movie characters who smoke, regardless of whether they are "good guys" or "bad guys," influence teens to try smoking. The study, published in the July 2009 issue of the journal Pediatrics , is titled "Adolescent Smoking: Who Matters More, Go...

Radiation From CT Scans Not Always the Same

Study finds wide variation in exposure, depending on several factors,, TUESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to radiation varies widely among people who undergo computed tomography (CT) scans, a new study has found. The study, published in the Feb. 4 issue of the Journal of ...

Asleep or Awake, Brain Functions the Same

Finding may help evaluate infants, as well as psychiatric, movement disorders FRIDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) -- The mind functions essentially the same when asleep as when awake, a new study shows. The discovery, reported in the online journal Human Brain Mapping , could help sc...

Consumer Watchdog Applauds L.A. City Attorney's Efforts to Reinstate Cancelled Blue Cross Patients; Urges State HMO Regulator to Do Same

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today joined L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo in announcing the city's lawsuit alleging that health insurer Blue Cross engaged in unfair business practices by illegally cancelling the health insurance of patients a...

Study Finds Both Coated Stents Perform the Same

Incidence of major adverse events was also lower than researchers anticipated TUESDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- In a large study comparing the real-life effectiveness of two different drug-coated stents, Danish researchers found no overall difference between the two stents and a low...

Hormones- The Same Regardless Of Packaging

Experts are worried over the unfettered sale of hormone replacement products claiming to be safe and natural alternatives to the ones prescribed// by doctors and tagged with the warnings of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and the like. In 2005, officials of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...

Steroids Cause the Same Tissue Changes as Tendon Injury

Patients who get a steroid injection in their shoulder for rotator cuff pain relief or improved// shoulder function should not return to their regular activities for a few weeks, according to a study. “Steroid injection temporarily produces a molecular response in the tissue that is similar t...

Estrogen Curbs Appetite In Same Way as the Hormone Leptin

Estrogen regulates the brain’s energy metabolism in the same way as the hormone leptin, leading the way to a viable approach to tackling obesity in people resistant to leptin//, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the online issue of Nature Medicine. “We found that estrogen suppr...