20. November 2009 01:03
Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called 'scale of craving', an antisocial personality type and previous heroin abuse are the factors most commonly involved in people falling back into the habit.
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19. November 2009 23:29
IVF FLORIDA Reproductive Associates today announced their partnership with Springstone Financial LLC to provide patients with improved financing options to fund IVF procedures and certain other fertility treatments. Financing programs are available to IVF FLORIDA and all IntegraMed Fertility Network patients immediately.
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19. November 2009 07:30
Public health officials walking a tightrope between massive demand for vaccines and intense public scrutiny of side effects now have a new standard for evaluating the safety of their vaccination programs.
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19. November 2009 06:23
A specialist in caring for elderly patients, Turner-Hubbard is a geriatric nurse practitioner trained to quickly spot the sudden changes in mental status that signal the onset of the sudden, severe confusion known as delirium. She knows the hospital “triggers” that can bring on fluctuations in behavior: blood loss during surgery, anesthesia, pain medications and anti-anxiety drugs, infections, dehydration, IV lines and catheters, as well as being immobilized for an extended period of time.
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Tags: Anxiety, Brain, Cancer, Catheter, Dehydration, Delirium, Dementia, Hospital, Intensive Care, Nursing, Orthopedic, Sleep, Speech, Urinary Tract Infection
19. November 2009 04:33
People who experience a lot of negative emotions and do not express these experience more health problems, says Dutch researcher Aline Pelle. She discovered that heart failure patients with a negative outlook reported their complaints to a physician or nurse far less often. The personality of the partner can also exert a considerable influence on these patients.
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18. November 2009 23:54
Experts believe fear of needles may be preventing people from rolling up their sleeves for the H1N1 vaccination.
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18. November 2009 10:31
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company today announced it has further expanded its protein homeostasis program with the initiation of a Phase I clinical trial for an oral formulation of MLN9708, the Company’s second-generation proteasome inhibitor. An intravenous formulation of MLN9708 entered clinical trials in March.
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Tags: Abdominal Pain, Anemia, Anorexia, Anxiety, Arthralgia, Blindness, Bone, Cancer, Cell, Constipation, Cough, Dehydration, Diarrhea, Doxorubicin, Dyspnea, Edema, Headache, Heart Failure, Herpes, Herpes Zoster, Hypersensitivity, Insomnia, Liposome, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, Nausea, Neuropathy, Neutropenia, Nursing, Oncology, Peripheral Neuropathy, Pneumonia, Thrombocytopenia, Ubiquitin, Vomiting
18. November 2009 10:10
Newspapers across the country featured front-page follow-up stories on new mammogram recommendations today.
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18. November 2009 07:34
Pfizer Canada accepted the Prix Galien Canada 2009 Innovative Product Award for CHAMPIX (varenicline tartrate), the first prescription treatment for smoking cessation in adults specifically designed to target nicotine addiction. The award was presented last night at a gala in Ottawa recognizing excellence in pharmaceutical research.
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Tags: Abstinence, Anxiety, Brain, Cardiovascular Disease, Constipation, Drug Abuse, Morphine, Nausea, Nicotine, Nicotine Addiction, Pfizer, Smoking, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco, Vomiting
18. November 2009 04:27
"The Transcendental Meditation Program, a widely-used standardized program to reduce stress, showed significant decreases in blood pressure and improved mental health in young adults at risk for hypertension," said David Haaga, PhD, co-author of the study and professor of psychology at American University in Washington, D.C.
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18. November 2009 04:03
More than six percent of expectant mothers in Quebec consume prescription drugs that are known to be harmful to their fetuses, according to a Universit- de Montr-al investigation published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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18. November 2009 01:57
Family caregivers can significantly reduce suffering in cancer patients at home through use of simple touch and massage techniques. These findings were recently reported at the 6th International Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology.
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17. November 2009 23:51
A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.
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17. November 2009 10:21
The Washington Post: "Women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women should cut back to one scheduled exam every other year, an influential federal task force has concluded, challenging the use of one of the most common medical tests" (Stein, 11/17).
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17. November 2009 10:06
Volleys of rhetoric, attack advertisements and procedural parries are echoing through Congress's health care debate. Here's a look at some of the latest political jabs.
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