News tagged with primary drug
MDs gather at AMA meeting amid reform uncertainty
(AP) -- Medicare crises, looming doctor shortages, more patients without health insurance. And that doesn't even count the big changes coming from a revamped health care system.
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Doctors lax in monitoring potentially addicting drugs
Few primary care physicians pay adequate attention to patients taking prescription opioid drugs -- despite the potential for abuse, addiction and overdose, according to a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 03, 2011 |
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GPs take more than a month to record ovarian cancer diagnosis in one in 10 cases
Family doctors can take more than a month to record ovarian cancer, once diagnosed by a specialist, in one in 10 cases, indicates research published in the launch issue of the new online journal BMJ Open.
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Lay counsellors may help tackle depression in resource-poor settings
Trained lay counsellors can be effective at helping treat people who have depression and anxiety in public primary care facilities, according to a study published today in the Lancet.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Year-long opiate substitution for drug misusers has 85 percent chance of cutting deaths
Giving people opiate substitution treatment to help with their drug addiction can lead to a 85% plus chance of reducing mortality, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal today.
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Overhaul 'made-to-order' drugs, which cost NHS millions, urges DTB
The provision of made-to-order drugs ("specials") in primary care is expensive, often unnecessary, and associated with legal pitfalls, says the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Antibiotic resistance lasts up to a year
Patients prescribed antibiotics in primary care may develop a resistance that lasts up to 12 months, according to research published in the British Medical Journal today.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 18, 2010 |
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Researchers define traits associated with prescription drug disorders in a primary care setting
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified clinical characteristics associated with prescription drug use disorder (PDUD) in primary care patients with chronic pain. The study found that by ...
May 14, 2010 |
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Insured African Americans more likely to use emergency room than other insured groups
(PhysOrg.com) -- African Americans enrolled in HMOs are far more likely to use the ER and to delay getting needed prescription drugs than HMO-insured members of other racial and ethnic groups, a new study has found.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Treatment for chronic illness needs to be less disruptive to people's lives
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many patients with complex chronic illnesses are being overburdened by their treatment, according to research by a Newcastle University academic.
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Outwitting mutating flu during a pandemic
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a global influenza pandemic, small stockpiles of a secondary flu medication - if used early in local outbreaks - could extend the effectiveness of primary drug stockpiles, according to research made available ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 04, 2009 |
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Using a small stockpile of a secondary antiviral drug in a flu pandemic
In a global influenza pandemic, small stockpiles of a secondary flu medication - if used early in local outbreaks - could extend the effectiveness of primary drug stockpiles, according to research made available today ahead ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Brain tumor treatment may increase number of cancer stem-like cells
A new study suggests that the standard treatment for a common brain tumor increases the aggressiveness of surviving cancer cells, possibly leaving patients more vulnerable to tumor recurrence. The research, published by Cell ...
Mar 05, 2009 |
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