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Latisse lash lengthener has its fans and detractors
Many users swear by its effectiveness, but the drug, developed to treat glaucoma, can have unpleasant side effects. ...
Generic meds, pharmacists and how they affect patients
Your Nov. 30 package of stories on pharmacists ["RX: Take With Advice"] was very informative, but you and the pharmacists omitted two very important suggestions for readers:
Study explains how exercise helps patients with peripheral artery disease
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects 5 million individuals in the U.S. and is the leading cause of limb amputations. Doctors have long considered exercise to be the single best therapy...
High-risk women reluctant to take tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer, U-M study finds
Even when women at high-risk of breast cancer are well-informed about the risks and benefits of using the drug tamoxifen for prevention, only 6 percent said they were likely to...
Gauging a gas tackler
Beano taken before a meal is supposed to prevent flatulence. It's hard to know how effective it is, though. ...
H1N1 vaccine: It's hard to prioritize in person
The shortage of doses has led to confrontations with patients who insist on getting it when they find their doctor has some. With the unanticipated shortage of the new H1N1 swine flu...
The benefits of medication therapy management
Many patients need another service they're even less likely to get than routine prescription counseling: medication therapy management.
Prescription for success: Ask your pharmacist
Here's a list of questions that you should pose before taking your medications home. ...
Educational home visits can improve asthma in children, study suggests
A few home visits by a health care specialist to educate children with asthma about basic strategies for earlier symptom recognition and improving medication use can lead to fewer flare-ups...
WHO's New Guidelines on HIV Care Call For Earlier Treatment
The World Health Organization is now advising health care professionals to start patients with HIV on antiretroviral drugs earlier in the course of their infection, as part of new...
Pork meat grown in the laboratory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Eindhoven University in The Netherlands have for the first time grown pork meat in the laboratory by extracting cells from a live pig and growing them...
Action recommended for indoor radon below current guidelines
With radon-caused lung cancer deaths averaging 20,000 per year, the Health Physics Society asks the public to consider taking action even at measured levels below current guidelines.
Beverage can stay-tabs pose swallowing risk
Three decades ago, a study revealed that beverage can pull-tabs were being swallowed by children, prompting a switch by US manufacturers to stay-tabs. But in a new study, researchers found...
Patients say 'no thanks' to risky medical treatments
A recent study suggests that increasing patient responsibility for making medical decisions may decrease their willingness to accept risky treatment options.
Improving Cardiac Rehab for Women with Heart Disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- USF Health researcher shows motivational "women-only" cardiac rehab improves symptoms of depression.
Simulated ultrasound training hikes safety
DETROIT, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a simulation-based ultrasound course for medical students can improve their skills without compromising patient care or safety.
More rural Medicare beneficiaries elect joint replacement surgery than urban recipients
Southern Illinois University researchers determined Medicare beneficiaries living in rural areas were 27% more likely than urban recipients to have total knee or hip replacement surgeries. Researchers found women...
New figures on cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality but big variations
New figures on deaths from cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality between the periods 1990-1994 and 2000-2004. Deaths from all cancers in the European Union (EU) between...
Unindicated CT series result in unnecessary radiation exposure for patients
A large proportion of patients who undergo abdominal/pelvic computed tomography (CT) receive unindicated and unnecessary additional image acquisition resulting in excess, avoidable radiation exposure, according to a study presented today...
Osteoarthritis increases aggregate health care expenditures by $186 billion annually
Osteoarthritis (OA), a highly prevalent disease, raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the U.S. by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University. Insurers footed $149.4 billion of...
Autism treatment works in kids as young as 18 mos.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The first rigorous study of behavior treatment in autistic children as young as 18 months found two years of therapy can vastly improve...
A Tax on Nips and Tucks Angers Patients, Surgeons
Legislation in the Senate would levy a 5-percent tax on elective plastic surgery procedures.
New stress-related gene modulates high blood pressure in mice and men
Does stress increase blood pressure? This simple question has been the focus of intense research for many years. New Stress-related gene Modulates High Blood Pressure in Mice &...
Gay men not protected from AIDS
Developing countries fail to give homosexual men information that could protect them from contracting AIDS, a new report has revealed.
Economic crisis could boost HIV
A new study has revealed that the effects of the global economic crisis could cause HIV infections to jump by 35 per cent over three years.
Late cancer diagnosis kills 10,000 a year according to government tsar
Patients and doctors to blame for UK's 'unacceptable' recordUp to 10,000 people die needlessly of cancer every year because their condition is diagnosed too late, according to research by the government's director of...
Ontario expands access to costly cancer drug
Ontario is expanding access to a cancer drug that was the subject of a scathing report by the province's ombudsman earlier this year.
New findings suggest strategy to help generate HIV-neutralizing antibodies
New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper.