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Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
03-01-2007 · EurekAlert!Many New Orleans residents had problems with prescription drugs for high blood pressure after Hurricane Katrina.
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- Do medical schools affect the way future doctors interact with drug companies?
12-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
Bulk of the approximately $21 billion dollars that pharmaceutical companies spend annually to market their products is targeted to physicians, doctors in training and medical students. Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute researchers report on interaction between drug companies, medical students and residents and conclude that well-designed seminars, role playing and focused curricula can affect medical student and resident attitudes and behavior toward drug companies.
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- Environments resilient in the face of hurricanes, but questions remain, says journal special issue
01-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
The international Estuarine Research Federation (ERF) has announced the publication of a special issue of its scientific journal, Estuaries and Coasts, focused on environmental impacts of hurricanes in coastal areas.Estuaries and Coasts is a bimonthly scientific journal dedicated to dissemination of research about ecosystems at the land-sea interface. The hurricane special edition was published as the journal's December 2006 issue.
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- Medication costs infrequently addressed when newly prescribed, UCLA study finds
11-08-2006 · EurekAlert!
A new UCLA study has found that physicians discuss cost and aspects of obtaining newly prescribed medications only about one-third of the time during patient/doctor interactions.But questions about pricing and prescription drug insurance coverage are critical -- the high costs of drugs, including out-of-pocket payouts such as co-payments, are linked to patient non-adherence in maintaining their dosage schedules
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- Kaiser Permanente -- Group Health study shows depression worsens HIV treatment
12-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
The largest study to examine the effect of depression on HIV treatment appears in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The study by Kaiser Permanente and Group Health found depression significantly worsens a patient's adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy and clinical measures but that effective antidepressant medication reverses this outcome. The study looked at 3,359 HIV-infected patients to measure the effects of depression -- with and without SSRIs.
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- Do specialty heart hospitals drive up heart care use? Study suggests the answer is yes
03-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
Across the country, states are embroiled in a debate over "specialty hospitals" - physician-owned hospitals that focus on one area, such as heart care. The debate has intensified ever since a federal moratorium on new ones expired last year. Now, a new study reveals that areas where new heart hospitals open experience a faster rise in heart procedures than areas where general hospitals provide all heart care.
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- Rural America more prepared for disaster -- also more vulnerable
01-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
From winter storms, to earthquakes, to terrorism -- when a disaster strikes a community, who fares better, a rural community or an urban one? A new study at the University of Illinois attempts to understand the differences in how rural and urban citizens across the US respond to disaster. Preliminary results show that although rural residents may be more directly involved in responding to crisis, their location also makes them more vulnerable.
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- Many NYC pharmacies fail to translate prescription labels for patients who don't understand English
04-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
Despite widespread capacity to provide prescription medication labels in languages other than English, few New York City pharmacies do so and as a result, limited-English patients face serious risk of medication error, according to a study by The New York Academy of Medicine presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine in Toronto, Ontario.
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- Pharmacy care program helps elderly patients take all their medications
11-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
A pharmacy care program for elderly patients increases medication adherence, which results in improved health outcomes, according to a study posted online today by JAMA. The study is being released early to coincide with its presentation at the American Heart Association Scientific Session. It will be published in the December 6 print issue of JAMA.
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- Reorganization of brain area for vision after stroke: May yield new treatments for brain injury
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
New evidence from a patient shows that the area of the brain that processes visual inputs can reorganize after an injury caused by stroke. Scientists found that a brain region that had stopped receiving signals from the eyes because of a stroke began responding to signals formerly processed in adjacent brain areas.
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- Design the first map of active faults in the Gibraltar Arc to prevent earthquakes
02-05-2008 · EurekAlert!
Researchers from the University of Granada characterised the physical and mechanical properties of the Earth's crust of this area of intense seismic activity. The African and Eurasian plates get about 4 mm closer every year. The study related the temperature of the Earth's crust to its seismic activity, determining that the probability of earthquakes is significantly lower in areas of higher temperature. Results were published in the Journal of Geophysical Research and Tectonics.
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