25 percent of acne patients fail to get prescribed medications
Medicine obviously can’t do much good if it sits on a pharmacy shelf. Yet more than one-quarter of the acne patients surveyed by researchers didn’t get medications prescribed… read more.
Medicine obviously can’t do much good if it sits on a pharmacy shelf. Yet more than one-quarter of the acne patients surveyed by researchers didn’t get medications prescribed… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Compared to women who deliver at full-term, women with a history of spontaneous preterm delivery appear to have a doubled risk of developing heart disease,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Results of a retrospective study suggest that, among middle-aged to elderly smokers, men have a higher risk than women of developing osteoporosis and fractures of… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Researchers report that treating post-tonsillectomy pain with morphine can cause some children to develop life-threatening respiratory problems. The study also showed that ibuprofen is a… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Atrial fibrillation patients treated with digoxin have a 27 percent greater risk of dying than atrial fibrillation patients not treated with the drug, according to… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Among patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation has led to lower mortality, hospitalization or recurrent atrial fibrillation than treatment with the heart… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Patients treated for one year with evolocumab, an investigative drug used to lower LDL cholesterol, have achieved significant reductions in mortality, heart attack and stroke,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: The addition of antiplatelet drug ticagrelor to aspirin for long-term post-heart attack therapy has reduced the rate of mortality from subsequent cardiovascular causes, heart attack… read more.
A momentary lapse of concentration is all it takes for a finger to become trapped or sprain an ankle – and it hurts. Pain is the body’s protective… read more.
Coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath are symptoms asthma sufferers are used to. They are also the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For sufferers, as well… read more.
Current asthma treatments can alleviate wheezing, coughing and other symptoms felt by millions of patients every year, but they don’t get to the root cause of the condition.
Patients with active asthma — such as any use of asthma medications, and unscheduled office or emergency visits for asthma — are at a twofold risk of having… read more.
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