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Nurse practitioners don't realise how much their prescribing is being influenced by drug marketing
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Family nurse practitioners need to be more aware of the commercial pressures they face as a result of their increased involvement in prescribing, according to a survey published in the March issue of the UK-based Journal of ...
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Exercise improves leg pain caused by arterial disease
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Patients with leg pain caused by arterial disease may be able to forego treatment of the affected artery by participating in hospital-supervised exercise, according to a new study published in the February issue of Radiology.
Rituximab reduces kidney inflammation in patients with lupus
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Treatment with the targeted drug rituximab can significantly benefit some patients with severe lupus nephritis who do not respond to conventional therapy, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Jo ...
Fungal pill could provide asthma relief for sufferers
Dec 29, 2008 |
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Up to 150,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found.
Lapatinib shows minimal effect against liver cancer
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Use of the molecularly targeted agent lapatinib to delay tumor growth and improve the survival of patients with inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver cancer, only benefited certain subgroups of patients. While results ...
New combination therapy safe, promising for melanoma patients
Jun 01, 2008 |
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The combination of two different biotherapies may be beneficial for patients with inoperable melanoma, according to a University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) study presented at the 44th annual meeting of the American ...
Exercise is good medicine for lymphoma patients
Oct 27, 2009 |
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A healthy dose of exercise is good medicine, even for lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy, University of Alberta researchers have found.
Intensive care units poorly equipped to care for the dying
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Almost half of the patients who die in intensive care units die within 24 hours, but the environment is not equipped to provide good end-of-life care. Most relatives are nevertheless happy with the care given, shows a thesis ...
Experimental drug shows promise in treating certain lymphomas
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 16, 2008 |
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New clinical data showed some cancer patients with recurrent lymphoma benefited from an experimental drug called AME-133v, said a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Transcranial magnetic stimulation effective in treating major depression
Nov 22, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and other study sites have found that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) – a non-invasive technique that excites neurons in the brain via magnetic pulses ...
For hospital patients, defibrillation delays mean lower survival
Jan 02, 2008 |
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[B]30 percent of patients receive life-saving defibrillation more than two minutes after cardiac arrest[/B] An estimated 750,000 hospitalized patients experience cardiac arrest and undergo CPR annually, and less than 30 ...
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