Heart Disease :: Heart patients discontinue medicines without doctor’s advice
Cardiovascular disease (heart disease, stroke and vascular disease) affects nearly one in five Australians and about 65% of those take medicines for their condition.
Treatment
Schizophrenia :: New data analyses for Bifeprunox show favorable effects vs. placebo
Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), and Lundbeck A/S presented clinical study results on bifeprunox, an investigational treatment for adult patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, today at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
Asthma :: Bronchial thermoplasty may allow severe asthma patients to wean off oral corticosteroids
Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a catheter-based procedure for the treatment of asthma, announced today that positive results from the Research in Severe Asthma (RISA) Trial were reported today at the annual scientific assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) by Neil Thomson, MD, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
Child Care :: Emergency Physicians Urge Parents to Follow 10 Rules to Prevent Child Drownings
Summer has arrived, and UCLA emergency physicians would like to remind parents how to prevent drownings and water-immersion injuries involving children. These unfortunate and heart-wrenching events most often occur in the summer months, which are filled with water activities.
Malaria :: Antifolate therapies found effective against certain type of malaria
Toby Leslie, M.Sc., of HealthNet TPO Malaria and Leishmaniasis Control Programme, Peshawar, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan, and colleagues tested the relative efficacy and safety of two antifolate drugs (sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and chlorproguanil-dapsone) against P vivax malaria and compared each with chloroquine.
Malaria :: Certain combination therapy found more effective for treating malaria in African children
Ugandan children who received the combination therapy of artemether-lumefantrine experienced a lower rate of treatment failure compared to other combination therapies, according to a study in the May 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on malaria.
Exercise :: Can You Exercise Too Much? Mental Health Experts Say Yes
You run in the morning, train for your next marathon at night despite a nagging injury, and head to the gym to weight train in your free time. Missing a workout is not an option.
Genetic Disorder :: Researcher Studying Disease that Cripples Newborns
Each year, the parents of an estimated one in 20,000 newborns are shocked to learn their child has type 1 congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM1), a progressive and crippling genetic disorder.
Osteoporosis :: Actress Sally Field Takes Bone Health Message to Capitol Hill
When actress Sally Field was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2005, it was a disappointing development.
Healthcare :: New Method for Crossing Blood-Brain Barrier Patented
Researchers at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute have patented a new way of safely transporting medicine across the blood-brain barrier.