The following is GlaxoSmithKline?s [NYSE:GSK] response to editorials written in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) regarding Avandia? for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Paying hospitals extra money does not appear to significantly improve the way they treat heart attack patients or how well those patients do. But giving hospitals the information that they need to improve heart attack care does help.
Divorce puts children at higher risk of Ritalin use compared to kids whose parents stay together, says new research by a University of Alberta sociologist, who cautions that this doesn?t necessarily mean that divorce is harmful to a child. The study appears in this week?s issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The reality of the threat from vector-borne diseases has been recognized and the problem is prompting research scientists to take a strong interest. Most of these infections, classified as emerging or re-emerging diseases, are linked to ecosystem changes, climatic variations or pressure from human activities.
Smokers have been getting more support for quitting, and the numbers ofsmokers have reduced, since the introduction of performance-relatedincentives for UK general practitioners, according to new researchpublished today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The use of an electronic medical record (EMR) in primary care practices is insufficient for insuring high-quality diabetes care finds this study of 927 diabetic patients in 50 primary care practices.
An easily identifiable dermatologic condition, acanthosis nigricans, is associated with having multiple risk factors for type 2 diabetes, in patients aged 7 to 39 years, finds this study of 1,113 patients.
Dr. Christopher Millett and colleagues investigated whether the introduction of a pay-for-performance incentive would improve the quality of care received by people with diabetes who smoke.
More than 78 percent of living right liver donors experienced post-operative complications, according to a new study that uses a replicable complication classification system.
Obesity may contribute to a greater likelihood of post-operative complications for patients having pancreatic surgery, a surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has found.