USA's Largest Ever Prostate Cancer Screening Programme Shows High Compliance And Consistent Results Just under five per cent of the men who took part in the prostate cancer element of the USA's largest ever cancer screening trial were diagnosed with the disease and the majority of those were picked up by screening programmes, according to research published in the December issue of the UK-based urology journal BJU International.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCellCept (mycophenolate mofetil) Medication Guide issued, providing important safety information, to be distributed to every patient who fills a CellCept
prescription from this point forward.
Source: www.fda.govText Messages Could Help Tuberculosis Drug Compliance Use of mobile phone text-messaging (or short message service/SMS as it is also known) could help tuberculosis patients in the world's most remote locations adhere to their treatment. The promising early results of this strategy are discussed in the World Report in this week's edition of The Lancet, written by freelance journalist Eliza Barclay.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comShiley 3.0PED Cuffless Pediatric Tracheostomy Tube by Covidien Inc. Class 1 Recall due to complaints received about difficulty inserting the device used to place the tracheostomy tube into the windpipe (obturator), and/or a suction tube (catheter) into the tracheostomy tube.
Source: www.fda.govMedicare Prescription Drug Benefit 'Doughnut Hole' Prompts Many Beneficiaries To End Treatment With Medications BusinessWeek on Wednesday examined how many Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the
prescription drug benefit do not take necessary medications after they reach the "doughnut hole" coverage gap, in which they must cover the full cost of their treatments. According to an
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comZonisamide (marketed as Zonegran, and generics) Treatment with zonisamide can cause metabolic acidosis in some patients.
Source: www.fda.govConsuming Too Much Sugar Shortens Lifespan The fact that an animal's lifetime is prolonged by decreasing its sugar ingestion is commonly recognized. In a study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, scientists from the Université de Montréal, reveal that sugar in itself is not the key element but the cells' capacity to detect its presence is. The intricate works of the process of aging are still not clearly defined.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHalf Of Children Born Extremely Prematurely Require Extra Support In School Research published in the Fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood says that more than half of children born severely prematurely require additional educational help in mainstream schools. The research specifies that they have more trouble with mathematics.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comJanuary 2009 Safety Labeling Changes Summary of safety-related revisions to the BOXED WARNING, CONTRAINDICATIONS, WARNINGS, PRECAUTIONS, and ADVERSE REACTIONS sections of drug Prescribing Information, plus Patient Package Inserts and Medication Guides.
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