Archive for February, 2008
AHFS 50th Edition Continues Tradition Of Helping Health Professionals assemble Safe, Effective Drug Therapy Decisions
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP) longstanding commitment to providing dependable drug data for pharmacists and other health professionals continues with the release of the 50th edition of the print version of AHFS Drug data ® (AHFS DI).
AHFS DI is the leading source …
APA Task Force Urges Integrated Health Care Model As Population Ages
Developing a model of integrated health care is fundamental as the U.S. population ages, and mental health care providers can manufacture strange and critical contributions to that paradigm, according to a task force report issued by the American Psychological organization.
“Blueprint for Cha…
Medtronic Announces First Human Use Of Its Bifurcation Stent
Seeking to address a challenge facing interventional cardiologists and hundreds of thousands of patients with coronary artery disease worldwide, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced the first human use of its investigational bifurcation stent. The new stent employs an innovative Y-shaped design to…
New Survey Finds Highest Rates Of Drug-Resistant TB To Date
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been recorded at the highest rates ever, according to a new report published recently. The report presents findings from the largest survey to moment on the scale of drug resistance in tuberculosis.
The report, “Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance i…
Patients Guiding Stroke Research
These days there’s a consumer group to fight our cause in nearly every walk of life. Now a remarkable group of humans are using their own experience to help shape pioneering research into the medical treatment and rehabilitation of stroke patients.
Members of The Nottingham Stroke Consumer Gr…
The Cause Of Effectiveness Has Been Discovered For A Cirrhosis Treatment That Has Been Shown To Be Useful In 40% Of Patients
Scientists of the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the University of Navarra have discovered the molecular mechanism responsible for the effectiveness of an existing treatment for primary biliary cirrhosis, which combines two substances in order to produce an effect that does not conclu…
New Gene Discovery Could Help Schizophrenics
A Queen’s academic is part of an worldly team which has discovered a gene that increases the risk of developing schizophrenia.
Over one thousand society in Northern Ireland have been involved in the study carried out by Dr Tony O’Neill from the School of Medicine and Dentistry and two p…
