March 11th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Fibromyalgia patients frequently find their way to the doctor’s office because of unexplained pain in their neck, shoulder, and/or back. The cause for the chronic pain has baffled the medical profession for decades; often resulting in a diagnosis that the brain in in the patients head.
Richard E. Harris, PhD, research assistant professor, Division of Rheumatology [...]
March 10th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
The Fentanyl pain patch has been recalled. The patch in question is the 25-microgram-per-hour patch with an expiration dates on or before December 2009. Currently it is a voluntary recall.
Fentanyl is powerful narcotic that is opium derived and nearly 100 times stronger than morphine. Of the four main types of fentanyl in use today, the [...]
March 8th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Often Type 2 diabetes is related to excess weight in the belly. Researchers recognized that obese individuals with Type 2 diabetes who had their stomach size restricted (i.e. gastric banding) also had an improvement of their diabetes.
Francesco Rubino, MD, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, decided to see what effect gastrointestinal bypass operations [...]
March 7th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Today positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is commonly used to differentiate various forms of dementia. The limitation of PET scans is that it only looks at the surface of the brain, which reduces the accuracy in determining the type of dementia the patient has developed.
Lisa Mosconi, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, New York University School of [...]
March 6th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
For some time pharmaceutical companies have known that the effectiveness for a new medication is greatest in the first year of availability to the public. It has been suggested that the increased effectiveness is the result of a physicians enthusiasm for the new drug.
Dan Ariely, behavioral economist, Duke University, and a team of collaborators at [...]
March 5th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Researchers knew that there was a connection between post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance-use disorder (SUD). Also, researchers already knew that a patient with PTSD is at risk for developing a SUD–in particular drug dependence.
What researchers were uncertain of is if PTSD patients were more likely to be at a greater risk for SUD [...]
March 4th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Physicians often have to grapple with the question if their patients are better off knowing their diagnosis of a life-changing disease or should the information be kept from them so what time they have left will be lived as fully as possible. A 2004 review of research found about half of all physicians were reluctant [...]
March 3rd, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Individuals with type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease–the leading cause of death in people with diabetes. Previous studies suggest that reducing blood sugar levels of type 2 diabetes to comparable levels found in non-diabetic adults may reduce the rate of cardio vascular disease of diabetic patients. Two studies were developed to test [...]
March 2nd, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Patients with chronic health conditions often require taking medications for extended time periods and the cost burden can prevent them from taking the needed prescription drug(s).
Researchers at the Rand Health, a division of Rand Corporation, suggest a “two-part-pricing” scheme for chronic health care patients. They base their proposal on how products outside the medical world are marketed, like Internet service, [...]
March 1st, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
For individuals who struggle with fibromyalgia, and their family and friends, the National Fibromyalgia Association’s (NFA) Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, ‘Caring by Sharing’ is quickly approaching and just weeks away.
If you are in California you can join their Walk of Fame on May 10, 2008. The walk/run will be held at The Block at Orange, in [...]
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