The head of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Asa Hutchinson, is calling for all 50 states to establish programs to track prescriptions of schedule II drugs. This story appears in the April 22 – 29, 2002 issue of the American Medical News, reporting on the National Association of Attorneys General meeting. On March 22,
read morePRNewswire, December 16, 2000 published an interesting article concerning the movement of the medical profession toward spirituality. According to Herbert Benson, M.D., president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical centre, “Spirituality and healing are rapidly becoming integrated into mainstream American medicine.” “Over the last ten years, we have witnessed a substantial
read moreThe above headline is from the September 12, 2001 issue of Intelihealth. The first sentence of the report then goes on to say, “Primary-care doctors are still unnecessarily prescribing antibiotics to adults who come to their office complaining of a sore throat.” This report was based on a study from a retrospective study carried out
read moreThe March 5, 2005 issue of the British Medical Journal reports on a study that shows that mothers who smoke in late pregnancy risk having children with lower intelligence. The research found that young men whose mothers smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day had IQs that were on average 6.2 points below those of
read moreIn the Medical Tribune June 24, 1999 is an article reporting that New York Researchers have found that women who smoke during pregnancy may increase the chance of their children having certain behavioral disorders. For years there has been a well-established connection between low birth-weight and mothers who smoke. But this new evidence shows the
read moreAre antibiotics really needed for ear infections? An article from the October 2001 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests otherwise. According to the article the medical profession is facing a situation where the antibiotics they have relied on in the past are becoming less effective, prompting physicians around the world to consider alternatives.
read moreIn an interesting research project published in the July 11, 2002 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)comes a study of the effectiveness of knee surgery on the elderly. What may be most interesting about this study is that some patients in the study got “sham surgery” instead of the real thing. Presently,
read moreFrom the University of Buffalo comes an article that raises questions and concerns about the amount of medications taken by senior citizens. Dr. Wayne K. Anderson, Dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences states, “Different physicians use different drugs to treat different conditions, and some of these drugs interact, in some cases exacerbating
read moreResearchers found in a pilot study that women who live with smokers may be up to six times more likely of developing lung cancer. The research was conducted at the City of Hope National Medical centre in Los Angeles, California. In this study, tissue cells from a group of women who lived with smokers were
read moreThe above headline comes from a July 01, 2003 Reuters Health release. The article begins by saying that according to new research, “Schools that offer students pizza and fries as alternatives to healthier lunch fare are not only encouraging children to eat high-fat foods during lunch hour, but after school and at home as well.”
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