Canadian scientists have found astonishing evidence that the lifelong use of two languages can help delay the onset of dementia symptoms by four years compared to people who are monolingual.
US FDA urges drugmakers and pharmaceutical companies to check their clinical studies data for certain drugs done for them by a unit of MDS Inc. to make sure the results were accurate. Inspections of two MDS Pharma Services sites in Canada raised questions about the validity and accuracy of studies conducted from 2000 to 2004 to measure drug levels in a patient’s blood.
Independent estimates for the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit for the FY 2008 budget cycle show that net Medicare costs are 30 percent less — $189 billion lower — than were originally predicted when the benefit was created in 2003, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced today. In addition, based on strong, competitive bids by health care plans for 2007, average monthly premiums will be approximately $22 for beneficiaries, down from $23 in 2006, if enrollees remain in their current plans. The initial estimate for 2006 premiums was $37.
This release announces research that directly compared the early therapeutic response of drugs from widely used classes of heartburn medications, omeprazole magnesium, a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and famotidine, a histamine-2 receptor antagonist (H2RAs), in an over-the-counter (OTC) setting.
A new study using mastectomy tissue shows that precancerous changes can occur in normal-appearing areas of the breast as distant as two inches from a tumor’s edge. The findings, while preliminary, might have important implications for identifying breast-cancer patients at high risk of a second tumor in the same breast.
A comprehensive meta-analysis of procrastination research, 10 years in the making, shows that: Most people’s New Year’s resolutions are doomed to failure; self-help books have it wrong when they say perfectionism is the root cause of procrastination, and procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Senior Vice President Ken Johnson released the following statement on today?s Families USA report:
Little research exists demonstrating that testosterone is both safe from the cardiovascular standpoint and effective to treat sexual dysfunction, reveal Mayo Clinic researchers in two new studies.
Adults over 70 with higher levels of education forgot words at a greater rate than those with less education, according to a new study from the University of Southern California. The findings, published in the current issue of Research on Aging, suggest that after age 70, educated adults may begin to lose the ability to use their schooling to compensate for normal, age-related memory loss.
Advances in medical technology are a main factor driving the trend of increasing health-care costs, and industry stakeholders agree that improved evaluation methods are needed to better measure the benefits and risks of new technologies and procedures in order to avoid misallocation of health-care dollars.