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Medical Doctors Not Educating Patients
University of Washington researchers found that doctors do not conduct discussions that enable patients to understand fully their treatment options.
"Do patients really know what they're getting when they take that new drug or agree to that ground breaking surgery?" is the question asked acc...
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Doctor visits by youngsters with ADHD up 90%
Medical doctors are seeing more visits of youngsters diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a report published in the December issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
The proportion of youth visits to physicians that were for ADHD inc...
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Prescription Drug Advertising Creating Problems
Prescription drug spots on television are becoming as common as those for Budweiser and Dodge.
The pharmaceutical industry has spent billions on print and media ads in the last year, and are expected to spend more because "drug makers want consumers to walk into the doctor's office and ask for a ...
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Ritalin as Last Resort?
Colorado Discourages ADHD Drugs - Educators Buck Treatment Trend
Jillian Lloyd, Christian Science Monitor - Colorado's education board is now urging schools to rely more on effective classroom discipline and less on medication for unruly kids, and the move has catapulted the state to the for...
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Survey: Consumers dislike drug ads
Side-effect warnings reduce effectiveness of drug ads, study finds. A Nando Times news article states, "You've seen the TV commercials for drugs that promise to relieve allergies, banish migraines, grow back your hair, prevent heart attacks, relieve herpes. Then comes the stern voice droning on ...
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Blocking the Anthrax Shot
Timothy W. Maier, of Insight magazine reports that Republicans in Congress are demanding that the FDA prove the safety of the controversial mandatory anthrax vaccine for military personnel ordered by the president.
Concerned about the growing number of U.S. troops experiencing adverse side ef...
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Experts highlight technologies that will revolutionize medicine
On Thursday, the British Medical Journal made their predictions as to what the future of medicine would be. These are the future "miracles" of medicine.
"Picture a world where wheelchairs can climb stairs and insulin sacs implanted in diabetics automatically release just the right amount at t...
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Long phone call linked to stroke-like attack
(Reuters Health) -- Stay on the phone long enough and you may encounter problems worse than your phone bill: One French psychiatrist experienced temporary, stroke-like symptoms after completing an hour-long phone call, where he cradled the phone between his head and shoulder.
Doctors place mu...
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Gene Therapy Deaths Hidden
Test Deaths Weren't Reported to NIH
(AP) - Two researchers trying to grow new blood vessels around blocked ones failed to report to the National Institutes of Health that six people died during their gene therapy studies.
Ronald Crystal of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in Manha...
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Babies of vaccinated moms more prone to measles, study shows
Source: Nando Times - Infants whose mothers were vaccinated against measles inherit fewer natural antibodies and are far more likely to catch the virus than infants of older, unvaccinated mothers, a study released Monday reveals.
The study confirms what public health officials anticipated wh...
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Prayer may speed heart patient's recovery
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -- Prayer may reduce the number of complications experienced by hospitalized heart patients, researchers report.
``This suggests that prayer may be an effective adjunct to standard medical care,'' Dr. William Harris of Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, ...
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Did the Rx Kill, or the Father?
Deadly Treatment
Judge Cites Hyperactivity Drug in Homicide Acquittal
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Ten days after he began taking a widely used medicine called Adderall to control his attention deficit disorder and help him with his college studies, Ryan Ehlis slipped into a psychotic fog and ki...
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Clinton Orders Human Experiments
Executive Order 13139 is requiring military personnel to receive experimental vaccines not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Courts-martial are pending.
A day after Republican Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut ended congressional hearings on the controversial decision mandating the ...
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Medical Doctors sanction lying for patients
Survey: Physicians support deceiving insurers to get needed care
LOS ANGELES - If a doctor believes a patient needs medical care but the insurance company won't cover it and the patient can't afford the expense, should the physician lie to the insurer to secure payment? Many doctors polled in a n...
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Medical Journal May Have Flouted Own Ethics 8 Times
L.A. Times: Drug reviews by New England Journal did not disclose authors' ties to firms. Editor concedes lapses.
Thursday, October 21 - The Los Angeles Times reported today that the renowned New England Journal of Medicine - the world's top-ranked medical journal and a leading voice in biom...
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