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Trials Offer Important Safety Information On Cardiovascular Effects Of AVANDIA

Two long-term, large-scale and independent studies evaluating cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes enrolled more than 9,300 patients taking AVANDIA (rosiglitazone maleate) and provide more than 20,000 patient years of additional experience with AVANDIA. The Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT), through two separate analyses, concluded that based on results from VADT, there [...]

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Ruling Could Prevent Expansion of Illinois Health Coverage

A Cook County judge has issued a temporary injunction preventing Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s (D) taxpayer-funded health care expansion from going into effect as scheduled. The ruling, handed down on April 15 by Cook County Judge James Epstein, was at least a temporary defeat for Blagojevich, who had been pressing forward with his plan to [...]

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Pet Health Insurance Offers Pets A Lifetime Of Health, Happiness

Millions of pet owners consider their dogs and cats to be their best friends and they want to provide them with the best care possible for a healthy, happy life. This commitment, combined with significant advances in veterinary medicine, has resulted in dogs and cats living longer than ever before. Many medical advances once available [...]

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Half Of Would-Be Dads Reluctant To See A Doctor

On the eve of Father’s Day, a new Internet poll suggests that social pressures and emotional discomfort are thwarting the desires of nearly half the men wanting to become dads — hurdles that New England fertility experts say can be easily overcome. According to an informal Web poll produced by IntegraMed, the leading operator of [...]

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Biomechanical Comparison Of Lumbar Spine Instability

A lumbar spine with posterior complex integrity is less likely to develop segment instability than a lumbar spine with a destroyed anchoring point for supraspinous ligament. Biomechanical comparison of lumbar spine instability between laminectomy and bilateral laminotomy for spinal stenosis syndrome- an experimental study in porcine model. The association of lumbar spine instability between laminectomy [...]

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Reform Needed To Stop Inhumane Practice Of Transplant Tourism

The UK government must bring in presumed consent to organ donation or allow a controlled donor compensation programme for unrelated live donors, in order to bring the inhumane practice of transplant tourism from the UK to an end, claims a doctor in this week’s BMJ. Professor Maqsood Noorani, former transplant surgeon at The Barts and [...]

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Anti-TNF Golimumab Improved Signs Of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Findings from two new Phase 3 studies showed that patients receiving every four-week subcutaneous injections of golimumab (CNTO 148) 50 mg and 100 mg and weekly methotrexate (MTX) experienced significant improvements in the signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as well as in physical function and disease activity, with some patients achieving remission as [...]

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eHealth Initiative Releases Guides For Rapid Expansion Of Electronic Prescribing

A new report indicates more than 35 million prescription transactions were sent electronically in 2007, a 170 percent increase over the previous year. The report, “Electronic Prescribing: Becoming Mainstream Practice,” offers a detailed examination of the progress made, obstacles that remain, and recommendations for helping the nation’s prescribers migrate from paper-based prescriptions to an electronic [...]

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CHP Investigating Three Cases Of EV-71

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health urged members of the public to be vigilant against Enterovirus-71 (EV71) infection following the confirmation of three cases by laboratory test. A spokesman for the CHP said the cases involved two girls and a boy aged between two and four. Laboratory tests on their [...]

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Google Health Records Signs Up Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Another Hub health care worthy has signed up with Google Health – today’s Boston Globe reports that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts joins Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – see John Halamka’s GeekDoctor post – in facilitating the download of patient data to Google Health PHRs. Per the Globe, BCBS says that %26quot;Google wants [...]

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Cymbalta Reduces Pain Severity Of Knee Osteoarthritis

New data suggest that patients with osteoarthritis pain of the knee treated with 60 mg and 120 mg Cymbalta (duloxetine HCl) once daily experienced significant pain reduction. Patients taking duloxetine reported significant pain improvement compared to placebo within the first week of treatment that lasted throughout the 13-week trial. Results from the study of 231 [...]

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Spotting Vitamin-D Deficiency In Absence Of Symptoms

Not so long ago, any mention of Vitamin D deficiency brought to mind malnutrition and images of third-world children with rickets and bone deformities. But now the picture has shifted from the developing world to the developed, where Vitamin D deficiency among those living in northern hemispheres appears to be rising to astronomical proportions — [...]

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