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Superbugs Are Spreading
A February 28th report from Associated Press states that cases of drug-resistant "super bacteria" are on the rise in Los Angeles and have began infecting "healthy" people which is baffling medical doctors.
The AP report mentions that although bacteria do develop a resistance to antibiotic treat...
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Psychiatric Drugs And Our Children
The week's March 6th issue of U.S. News & World Report features a report on the use of psychiatric drugs in children. The article is available on this weeks news stands or by visiting http://www.usnews.com (save the pages for offline viewing as they will probably be removed next week.)
Although...
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Drug Sales Up Worldwide Thanks to U.S.
For our Canadian and international readers, this just gives you one more reason to point fingers at those of us in the U.S.
It was reported today that retail pharmaceutical sales were up 10% worldwide for 1999, driven by a rise in drug use in the United States.
To top that off, the fastest...
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CDC report warns pediatricians about erythromycin
As reported in this weeks American Medical News, the CDC has found that the widely used antibiotic, erythromycin may be associated with infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in very young infants.
At a community hospital in Tennessee, seven infants receiving erythromycin for exposure to p...
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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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Employers adding health benefits like chiropractic care, despite rising costs
In efforts to keep workers happy in a tight labor market, US employers are sweetening health benefits packages even as the cost of providing that coverage is rising at a rate nearly triple that of general inflation, results of a new survey suggest.
More employers are embracing programs that s...
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M.D.'s Hot - Wire Low Backs
USA Today reports on Medicines newest techniques to relieve chronic back pain.
"Fixing serious back pain starts with determining its source, not an easy task." Medical experts are promising new treatments, such as heating injured spinal disks with heated probes and fusing unstable bones.
V...
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5 Major HMOs Targeted in Class-Action Suits
The Los Angeles Times reported today that five of the nation's largest HMOs face new lawsuits accusing them of failing to provide promised health care to 32 million customers, according to published reports.
HMOs named in the suits are Pacificare Health Systems Inc., Foundation Health System...
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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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Are We Over-Drugging American Boys?
According to a recent article on ABCNEWS.com, In 1998, nearly 5 million people in the United States - most of them children - were prescribed Ritalin. Production of Ritalin, the chief drug used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is up 700% since 1990 and boys are diagnosed with ADD four ...
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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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Report slams scoliosis screening in schools
NEW YORK, (Reuters Health) - Screening for scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, in schools is not effective and often identifies children who never receive treatment, according to a study published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
"I do not think ...
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Did HMO Pay M.D.'s to Nix Coverage?
Class Action Seeks Compensation for Denied Coverage
Source: ABC News
W A S H I N G T O N, - Health insurer Humana Inc. was sued today in a first-of-its-kind class action suit, which alleged it failed to disclose the conditions of its health coverage and that it paid medical doctors t...
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