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Safeguarding anti-inflammatory users from ulcers

Abolishing a common stomach-dwelling bacterium makes the long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs safer. Many people would benefit from chronic usage// of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and diclofenac. Not only do these drugs relieve the symptoms of arthritis, they also protect against heart attack, stroke and maybe even Alzheimer's disease. But the NSAIDs h...

Drug dilemma confronts users of painkillers

The Food and Drug Administration announced that Vioxx - Merck's blockbuster painkiller, would include new information on its label. The FDA said that Merck can claim that Vioxx has fewer gastrointestinal complications// than one older non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, naproxen. But the FDA also decided that the Vioxx label must mention that it might be linked to an increased risk of h...

Drug Users and Risk of Death

A new study shows injecting-drug users who are male and over age 34 are at the greatest risk of death. The research highlights the need to stress the importance of discontinuing drug-use among older drug users.// Recognizing trends in the drug-using population can help better define different sectors to help them. A study conducted by researchers in the United Kingdom focuses on which dr...

Methamphetamine Users Found To Suffer From Mood Disorders

Methamphetamine is a stimulant drug that strongly activates certain systems in the brain.// The drug is often used to treat obesity and is often addictive. According to the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, about 8.8 million people in the United States have tried methamphetamine at least once in their lives. Researchers from UCLA studied 17 methamphetamine users and 18 health...

A Word Of Caution For Tampon Users

In the early 1980s toxic shock syndrome cases were 10 per 100,000 women, but dropped later in the decade when the highest absorbency tampons were // taken off the market. The number of cases are once again climbing putting the latest toxic shock syndrome statistics at 5 per 100,000 women. Toxic shock syndrome is often associated with improper tampon use. It is an illness brought on by St...

Personality profiles of gamblers and substance abusers are similar

Individuals suffering from problem gambling behavior may share their personality// profiles with substance abusers like drug addicts and alcoholics. Researchers have been able to identify personality traits of problem gambling behavior in people and have found marked semblance with those of substance abusers. Researchers in their research have pointed out that people who seek help for...

Women complain Viagra users want too much sex

Canterbury, July 16 (IANS) A three-year study of the "socio-cultural implications" of Viagra //and similar drugs to correct erectile dysfunction reveals that men using the prescription want too much sex. Canterbury University researcher Annie Potts, who did the study, said the women felt Viagra was giving their sex life too much of a lift. They complained that their partner...

Morphine Withdrawal Complicates Hepatitis C Infection in Drug Abusers

Hepatitis C, a condition that leads to inflammation of the liver is common among intravenous drug users. There are nearly 70-80 % of abusers are suffering from // the disease in the United States. This high association has generated interest in determining the effects of drug abuse, specifically opiates, on progression of the disease. The discovery of such an association would impact...

Children Of Alcoholics Tend to Become Drug Abusers In Adulthood

A new study conducted by David Flora, PhD of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (now at York University), and Laurie Chassin, PhD of Arizona State University//, says that parental alcoholism is directly linked to illicit drug well into adulthood. It is generally known that children of alcoholics (COA's) suffer because of their parent's abusive habits, but this is the first time...

London: HIV Rates Shoot Up Amongst Drug Users

There has been a significant increase in new drug users who have HIV, and currently has recorded a rate so high, unseen in the last ten years. // This rise in drug users is being attributed to increasing number of people injecting themselves with crack cocaine, according to reports from The Health Protection Agency. HIV infection among injecting drug users did not change much in Londo...

Could Long Tern Vioxx Users Suffer From Heart Attacks?

Dr. Barry Rayburn, a cardiologist from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, told a jury at the latest Vioxx product liability trial that the drug showed no significant difference in the rate of heart attacks //among its users and those taking similar drugs or placebos. The drug Vioxx is produced and marketed by Merck & Co.'s. The doctor testified on Tuesday and told a jury that the stu...

Is Cancer, A Foregone Conclusion, To Afflict Cell Phone Users? FDA does A Reality Check.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reconsidering and mulling over the veracity of the facts outlined in a recent study that showed// a link between heavy cell phone use and an increased risk of cancer. The FDA will be chewing upon an academic exercise conducted by researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life who conducted a comparative study between statis...

New User-Friendly Mobile Device Launched For At Risk People

It is widely known that mobile phones can serve as life-saving gadgets during emergencies, enabling the victim communicate with friends //, relatives or hospitals. The truth however is that it is not being widely used by high-risk individuals such as elderly people who suffer from chronic diseases and other age-related disorders. A new device has now been launched, that provides users...

Better Screening Now Possible For ADHD In Adult Substance Users

Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects both children and adults and is a huge problem for both of them. Drug users and alcoholics are especially at risk// and ADHD intensifies their problems and increases the severity of their addiction. While the disorder is treatable, there is difficulty in diagnosing the disease among adult substance users. Charles Cleland and his...

User charges imposed on AIIMS patients may be withdrawn

Government is considering doing away with the user charges imposed on patients at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences// (AIIMS) here, a senior CPI(M) MP said today. This was conveyed to a delegation of Members of Parliment led by CPI(M) member Basudeb Acharia when they called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Tuesday. The delegation, which also included Nirma...

Spurious Drugs is a Leading Cause of Casualties Among Drug Users

While the consumption of narcotics substances is potentially lethal in itself, a more potent menace is the increasing supply of spurious drugs //that is leading to a higher casualty rate among drug users in India, especially when consumed with alcohol, according to experts. 'The 'impure' drugs are more dangerous as quite often the users do not even know about the presence of impurities...

User Charges At AIIMS Rolled Back

In an important move that will benefit poor patients, the Centre today decided to roll back the user charges in the prestigious All India Institute// of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The decision to withdraw the user charges, imposed earlier this year, was taken at a meeting of the AIIMS Institute Body where a majority of the members wanted the user charges to be rolled back. "T...

Adolescent Drug Users Turn Compulsive Addicts

According to a recent research it was found that teenagers who were taking cannabis on a regular basis became addicts to other hard drugs// later in their life. Teenagers turn in to heroin addiction later in their life due to the positive emotion that they derive by taking these drugs. Cannabis is considered to be the gateway drug which further leads a person to get exposed to other ha...

UN Warns of HIV epidemic among Asia-Pacific drug users

A report by a UN official, warns the Asia-Pacific countries of the risk of a full-blown HIV epidemic among drug users. The report also states that such an epidemic can only be overcome by the government stepping in // and doing more to keep the younger generation off drugs. According to Prasada Rao, Asia-Pacific director of UNAIDS, the UN body fighting HIV/AIDS at least 70 per cent of H...

Erection Drug Was Not Useful to Two-Thirds of Its Users

According to a large-scale study published in the July issue of the urology journal BJU International, nearly two-thirds of patients have discontinued the use of Uprima// , a drug known to treat problems of erection. The users were not happy with the success rates of this drug. And 70 per cent of family doctors who expressed an opinion using an official National Health Service (NHS) d...

Dental Grills harmful For Users

Dr. Matt Messina, consumer advisor to the American Dental Association, has cautioned that the wearing of dental grills could bring a nice 'bling' to a smile but they// could also be very damaging to the users. It was explained that removable dental fixtures like the 'grills' or 'fronts' that fit over the teeth and snap into place, are very happening trends among he younger so called '...

HIV Positive Female Drug Users Indulge In Unsafe Sex

HIV positive female drug injection users in US and South Africa practice unsafe sex with their uninfected partners, according to a new study. // "Forty percent of the HIV-positive women in our sample were having sex with at-risk male partners, and more than half of the time, condoms were not used consistently," said lead author Dr. Mary H. Latka. The study is published in the June issu...

Medicos Seek NHRC Intervention on User Charges at AIIMS

The issue of delay in withdrawal of "user charges" at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was today brought to the notice of the National Human Rights Commission // (NHRC) with a medicos' body seeking its intervention on the matter. In a letter to NHRC Chairperson A S Anand, the Medicos Forum for Equal Opportunity, a body of pro-quota medicos, today said the governing b...

Lack of treatment for cocaine users

Campaigners have announced that there is a lack of specialist service in Scotland to treat cocaine users//. According to the Scottish Drugs Forum, in spite of the rise in the number of deaths due to cocaine in Scotland, there are only 2 publicly funded centres specifically for cocaine users. These centers are in the east of Scotland, in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. 1-in-5 drug-related deat...

Trail Users Twice as Likely to Get Enough Exercise

People who walk, bike or hike local trails at least once a week are twice as likely to get the recommended amount of daily exercise as those who rarely hit the trails, a new// study concludes. Yet nearly half of those who didn’t use the trails said they would be in favor of more public places to exercise, and many even said they would be willing to pay more taxes to build more trails...

Reinfection with Hepatitis C Stopped in drug users

Drug users, once infected with hepatitis C and battled off the infection appear to be shielded from future infections of the liver-killing virus according to a Canadian study.// WebMD.com said that Drug users in Vancouver, British Columbia were tested by University of British Columbia researchers for presence of Hepatitis C antibodies indicating presence of past infection. Drug users...

Shop Till You Drop Heroin - Plan to Provide Incentives to Drug Users

A plan to provide incentives to drug users on methadone for heroin addiction, on the likes of shopping vouchers,// might be a way to encourage drug users to give up the habit, a draft guidance has indicated. Such incentive schemes employed in the past, in the United States, have always proved worthy. As per the plan suggested, users should be given compensation, if their urine or bloo...

Majority of Herb Users Don't Follow Evidence-based Indications, Researchers Find

Sales of herbal dietary supplements have skyrocketed by 100 percent in the United States during the last 10 years, but most people dont consider evidence-based indications before using them, according to a University of Iowa study published in this months Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Two-thirds of people who use herbs dont do so in accordance with scientific guidelines, according to th...

China Closing in on US for Highest Number of Web-users

China looks set to overtake the United States as the world's biggest user of the Internet after its numbers online hit 162 million, according to a government report seen Thursday. As of June 30, there were 122 million Chinese connected via broadband and another 40 million who regularly log on using dial-up or mobile phones, according to the report by the government-controlled China...

Meth Users Involved in Violence, Sexual Risk-Taking: Study

More than half a million young adults reported use in the past year of crystal meth in 2001- 2002, according to a new nationally representative study. That estimate is higher than previous studies and represents nearly 3 percent of the U.S. population. Among meth users, there is a strong link to alcohol and other drug use, the study found. Additionally, the findings, published in t...