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Prescription Drug Costs Comparison For Statins Between The US And The UK
Date: Nov-03-2012In the United States, the cost paid for statins (drugs to lower cholesterol) in people under the age of 65 who have private insurance continues to exceed comparable costs paid by the government in the United Kingdom (U.K.) by more than three fold. These results from Boston University's Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, are a follow up of an ongoing comparison of prescription drug costs between the U.S. and U.K. The initial results reported on relative drug costs in 2005. The current updated results for 2009 appear this week in the journal Pharmacotherapy...
Life Expectancy For Individuals With Schizophrenia Improved By Use Of Antipsychotic Drugs
Date: Nov-03-2012Results of a Johns Hopkins study suggest that individuals with schizophrenia are significantly more likely to live longer if they take their antipsychotic drugs on schedule, avoid extremely high doses and also regularly see a mental health professional. Psychiatrists have long known that people with schizophrenia who stick to a drug regimen have fewer of the debilitating delusions and hallucinations that are hallmarks of this illness...
Patients With Deadliest Of Brain Cancers Benefit From Repeated Surgeries
Date: Nov-03-2012People who undergo repeated surgeries to remove glioblastomas - the most aggressive and deadliest type of brain tumors - may survive longer than those who have just a one-time operation, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. Glioblastoma, the brain cancer that killed Sen. Edward Kennedy, inevitably returns after tumor-removal surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation. The median survival time after diagnosis is only 14 months...
Indiana University Researchers Report First Effective Treatment Of Tumors Arising From Common Genetic Disease NF1
Date: Nov-03-2012Physician-researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have reported the first effective therapy for a class of previously untreatable and potentially life-threatening tumors often found in children. Announcing their findings in the online first edition of Lancet Oncology, the researchers said the drug imatinib mesylate, marketed as Gleevec as a treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia, provided relief to a significant number of patients with plexiform neurofibromas, tumors caused by neurofibromatosis type 1, or NF1...
New Research Uncovers Independent Association Between Atrial Fibrillation And Dementia In Older Adult Population
Date: Nov-03-2012First-of-its-kind study published in HeartRhythm evaluates relationship between atrial fibrillation and dementia in more than 77,000 patients A new study shows that atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk of dementia in older adults who have not had a stroke and have normal baseline cognitive function. The meta-analysis, published in the November edition of HeartRhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, is the first-of-its-kind to observe a large population of patients over a relatively long follow-up period...
Moderate Consumption Is Acceptable For Some Alcohol Abusers
Date: Nov-03-2012More and more addiction counselors are agreeing that it is acceptable for their substance abuse patients to have an occasional drink, as an "intermediate goal" or "final treatment goal", according to a recent trial published by the American Psychological Association in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. For their study, the experts questioned 913 individuals from the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Counselors from all around the U.S...
Math Anxiety: The Brain Can Feel The Pain
Date: Nov-03-2012Worry about math can trigger regions of the brain associated with the experience of physical pain and instinctive risk detection, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and published in PLOS ONE. Ian Lyons and his team of researchers discovered that in people who experience high levels of anxiety when anticipating math tasks, encountering math increases activity in regions of the brain connected with the feeling of physical pain. The more elevated a person's math anxiety, the greater the appearance of neural activity is...
Parents Find Talking To Their Teens About Being Overweight Scarier Than Any Ghost Story
Date: Nov-03-2012New study highlights how parents can help their children achieve a healthier lifestyle According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 28% of adolescents are overweight. This means that about 1 in every 5 parents is thinking about how to discuss this with their child...
Women With Lupus Have A Higher Risk For Preeclampsia
Date: Nov-03-2012DMARD Use Rare in Pregnancy; May Pose Slight Preeclampsia Risk New research reports that women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a two-fold increase in risk of preeclampsia - a dangerous condition in which pregnant women develop high blood pressure (hypertension) and protein in their urine (proteinuria) after 20 weeks of gestation...
Serious Hereditary Disease Not Treated Effectively
Date: Nov-03-2012High blood cholesterol, a serious hereditary disease, is far more common than previously recognised and not treated sufficiently. This is shown in new research from the University of Copenhagen and Herlev Hospital, and the results have recently been published in the well-reputed American scientific journal, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. A group of scientists from the University of Copenhagen has recently shown that far more Danes than expected suffer from high blood cholesterol. The study also shows that the serious hereditary disease is not treated effectively...
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