Patients
February 8th, 2008Patients
FDA: Risks of new asthma drugs vary - Guardian Unlimited
Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — The blockbuster asthma drug Advair does not appear to have an increased risk of serious respiratory complications seen with similar new medicines, federal health officials said Friday. But a less widely ... (more...)
Scrubbing In: By defying doctor's advice, he would risk going blind - Philadelphia Inquirer
On a recent night in Atlantic City, a 59-year-old man had just left a restaurant when he felt a terrible pain in his eye. Then his vision became cloudy "like a Russian steam room." He went right to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center emergency ... (more...)
Rectal malaria drug may help save many lives in rural Africa and Asia - Newstrack India
London, Dec 8 (ANI): Lives of many people who develop severe malaria, who live in the world's remotest locations like rural Africa and Asia, could be saved with a rectal application of the inexpensive antimalarial drug artesunate. Most of the deaths ... (more...)
The Vytorin Hangover - Forbes
For Merck and Schering-Plough , it is the $5 billion question: Does Zetia prevent heart attacks and strokes or not? It has been 13 months since Forbes reported the results of the first study that asked that question, setting off a chain reaction of ... (more...)
Can Amphetamines Help Cure Cocaine and Meth Addiction? - Time
A teenage girl prepares to smoke a pipe of crystal meth. But over the years, maintenance treatment with methadone and other synthetic opiates like buprenorphine has proved successful ? more than any other heroin-addiction therapy ? in getting ... (more...)
Best Treatments For Long-term Survival In Brain Tumor Patients ... - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2008) ? A new Mayo Clinic study found that patients with low-grade gliomas survived longest when they underwent aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumor. If safely removing the entire tumor was not possible ... (more...)
Heart attack patients get 'big chill' treatment - Guardian Unlimited
AP Medical Writer= NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It took five mighty shocks to get Cynthia Crawford's heart to start beating again after she collapsed at Ochsner Clinic a few weeks ago. A dramatic rescue, to be sure, yet it was routine care she could have ... (more...)
New Fort Worth VA Clinic prepares to serve in 2010 - Fort Worth Business Press
When the roughly 49,000-square-foot clinic opened in April 1992, it was built to serve 300 patients a day. Today, the clinic serves 700 to 800 patients a day. That?s down from about 1,200 patients a day in 2007, when it was open access and patients ... (more...)
Montana judge: Man has right to assisted suicide - Salt Lake Tribune
Posted: 10:39 AM- HELENA, Mont. - A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicides are legal in the state, a decision likely to be appealed as the state argues that the Legislature, not the court, should decide whether terminally ill patients ... (more...)
Zevalin Consolidation in Patients With Complete Remission After ... - MSN MoneyCentral
Updated Phase III First-line Indolent Trial (FIT) Results Confirms Continued Significant Benefit over Chemotherapy Alone SEATTLE , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that extended ... (more...)
Pharmaceutical Executive Europe - Be Patient
July 1, 2007 -- My job as editor of PEE often finds me giving thought to patient compliance, but rarely (thankfully) do I have to experience the issue first hand.... (more...)
Internet Bookwatch - Patient Listening
August 1, 2008 -- Patient Listening Loreen Herwaldt University of Iowa Press 100 Kuhkl House, Iowa City, IA 52242 9781587296529, $24.95, www.uiowapress.org... (more...)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Safer patients
December 6, 2008 -- POLICE have been handing out crime prevention tips to an unlikely group of "thugs". Officers in North Tyneside have been working with the... (more...)
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs) - Patients WITH Passports
July 14, 2008 -- Pramod Goel likens his dotcom to online travel sites Priceline, Travelocity or Expedia. But go to make your travel plans, and the differences between... (more...)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Bus for patients
October 20, 2008 -- PATIENTS at a GP surgery hit by the recent floods are being offered free transport to help them get to the practice's temporary premises. Gas House... (more...)
San Fernando Valley Business Journal - Roy Disney donation kick-starts new cancer center
June 6, 2005 -- Roy and Patricia Disney have been supporters of Providence St. Joseph Medical Center for years. Now they've stepped up to lend support once again,... (more...)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Patient progress
October 24, 2008 -- NEARLY all patients in the North East are being treated in hospital within 18 weeks, five months ahead of schedule, say figures from the Department... (more...)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Patients to sue
November 4, 2008 -- PATIENTS are considering legal action against a surgeon who has been issued a warning by a medical disciplinary panel. Dr Ashish Dutta, who owns... (more...)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Patient support
September 11, 2008 -- PATIENTS with rare illnesses are experiencing severe financial hardship and a lack of support, according to a new survey. Research by Muscular... (more...)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - Supporting patients
September 8, 2008 -- A NEW group helping cancer patients will start next month. Places are now available on the free six-week course being run by Macmillan from October... (more...)