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Study: Doctors Who Prescribe More Opioids Make More Money
This study suggests that conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry may influence oncologists in high-stakes treatment decisions for patients with cancer,” the authors concluded.
Some studies have looked at whether the amount of money a doctor receives makes a difference. Studies by researchers at Yale University, the George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health and Harvard Medical School have all found that the more money physicians are paid by pharmaceutical companies, the more likely they are to prescribe certain drugs.
Dr. Patrice Harris, a spokeswoman for the American Medical Associ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Local TV opioid crisis opioids Source Type: news
Breast cancer drug studies 'subject to spin'
Conclusion
Well-designed RCTs are the best way of investigating the effectiveness and safety of a particular treatment being investigated compared with a control treatment.
This valuable new research highlights the need for objective and clear reporting of both the results for the main outcomes that the trial was set up to investigate, and of any adverse effects that have been associated with the treatments being tested.
This is essential to allow relevant healthcare professionals and healthcare policy makers to clearly see whether potential new treatments are safe and effective.
However, there are some points to bear in...
Source: NHS News Feed - January 10, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Medical practice Source Type: news
Illuminating The Hallway: A Search For A Life After Cancer (Part One)
Something serendipitous happens when diagnosed with cancer, something magical.
When it happens everything aligns to one aching, breathless moment. Time stops. Clarity in all things arrives. In the wake of disaster there's an uncanny way in which things fall into place.
It could be described with the same vain that Sogyal Rinpoche writes in The Tibetan Book of The Living and Dying, as the "first step in the practice of meditation...purif[ying] the ordinary mind, unmasking and exhausting its habits and illusions, so that we can, at the right moment, recognize who we really are."
In a flash, the truth of ourselves is reve...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Here's Why The Acting DEA Chief Is Wrong On Medical Marijuana
This study again had patients experience both actual cannabis cigarettes and a placebo, and it again found more benefit with the cannabis. In this study, patients had much greater reductions in spasticity with the drug than without it; this was measured using something called the modified Ashworth scale, which is a well-validated tool assigning point values based on muscle tone, range of motion, and other factors. Pain also diminished more, based on the Visual Analog Scale, with cannabis. There were no serious adverse events reported. Obviously, these studies do not represent a particularly large body of evidence for smoke...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Marijuana: Health effects of recreational and medical use
Marijuana is widely used, especially in adolescents and young adults. In the US, there are about 20 million users (about 7.5% of people aged 12 or older).
Marijuana is a mind-altering (psychoactive) drug. Similar to hemp, it comes from the cannabis plant. The plant’s primary drug effects come from the chemical delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or “THC.” Marijuana is smoked, “vaped” (inhaling the vapor), or ingested in foods or teas. Over the last few decades, the concentration of THC in the cannabis plant has been increasing. In addition, the plant extracts are more potent.
Short-term effects of marijuana
Marijuana i...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Wynne Armand, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Brain and cognitive health Drugs and Supplements Pain Management Source Type: news
How Medical Tattoos Can Help People With Skin Grafts And Scars
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) - Patients who get tattoos to cover facial skin grafts and scars may feel happier with both their appearance and quality of life, a Dutch study suggests.
The practice of using tattoos to cover damaged skin isn’t that new. Doctors even have a term for it: dermatography. These medical tattoos are not butterflies or lightning bolts; rather doctors use subtle coloration to make discolored areas match surrounding skin more closely.
While it doesn’t cure disease, cosmetic changes made by tattoo needles can still have lasting health benefits, said one of the study’s authors, Dr. ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
E-cigarettes could help some smokers quit
Conclusion
This comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis has found some evidence that e-cigarettes with nicotine may help people to stop smoking, or at least reduce the amount they are smoking by over half.
That said, no matter how rigorously they are carried out, systematic reviews and meta-analyses can only be as good as the size and quality of evidence that go into them. In this case, the evidence was slim.
The improvements were only apparent when the results of both RCTs were pooled together. There was no statistically significant result in either study on their own, despite having 657 and 300 participant...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 17, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Medical practice Cancer Source Type: news
New chlamydia vaccine shows promise after being tested on mice
ConclusionThis animal research has tested out a potential new vaccine against chlamydia, which utilises UV light-killed chlamydia bacteria linked to tiny nanoparticles. The vaccine did protect against chlamydia infection in mice, if it was given directly onto the mucous-producing surfaces of the nose or uterus.Previous attempts to make a chlamydia vaccine have not been successful, and the current research also identified that this may have been due to the type of immune response produced. This new approach prompts a different immune response, including “memory” cells, which remain in the mucosal tissue. These cells pro...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Medication Medical practice Source Type: news
Can the so-called 'male menopause' be treated with HRT?
ConclusionThis study found that offering men testosterone when they reported symptoms usually described by men with low testosterone caused a reduction in their symptoms. This was despite 83% of the men having testosterone levels considered to be in the normal range, above 10nmol/l. The authors say that treating people according to symptoms should be more important than basing it on testosterone blood levels alone. They say these blood levels may be inaccurate, and some individuals may naturally need higher levels of testosterone than others. This is an interesting concept worthy of further robust study. However, there are...
Source: NHS News Feed - July 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medication Neurology Medical practice Older people Source Type: news
New Research Suggests Friendly Bacteria May Shrink Tumours
Friendly bacteria commonly found in probiotic drinks could be used to shrink tumours, according to new research published in the International Journal of Medical Microbiology. Researchers, from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and Sonidel Ltd. in Dublin, Ireland, looked at the effect on tumours of the common Lactobacillus casei. L. casei found in the human mouth and gut, and an ingredient used in many probiotic drinks. The new study suggests that, when injected directly into tumours, L. Casei could inhibit tumour growth...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
Among Patients Carrying BRCA Mutations, PARP Inhibitor Shows Activity In Pancreatic, Prostate Cancers
In the largest clinical trial to date to examine the efficacy of PARP inhibitor therapy in BRCA 1/2 carriers with diseases other than breast and ovarian cancer, the oral drug olaparib was found to be effective against advanced pancreatic and prostate cancers. Results of the study, led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel, will be presented during the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Chicago in early June (Abstract #11024)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pancreatic Cancer Source Type: news
Sperm blocking study brings 'male pill' closer
Conclusion
This laboratory study has investigated the effects on male fertility of a blocked ejaculation process following the depletion of two genes in a group of genetically modified mice.
As the researchers say, there is a need for different approaches to male contraception because most strategies have so far focused on hormonal approaches that produce dysfunctional sperm. The researchers say these often have intolerable side effects, such as affecting male sexual activity or causing long-term irreversible effects on infertility.
This laboratory study demonstrated that 100% male infertility was achieved among a group ...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Medication Lifestyle/exercise Source Type: news
H. pylori vaccine shows promise in mouse studies
Researchers from Southern Medical University in Guangdong, Guangzhou, China, have developed an oral vaccine against Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria responsible for peptic ulcers and some forms of gastric cancer, and have successfully tested it in mice. The research is published ahead of print in the journal Clinical and Vaccine Immunology.The investigators constructed a live recombinant bacterial vaccine, expressing the H. pylori antigen, adhesin Hp0410, in the food-grade bacterium, Lactobacillus acidophilus. They then used it to orally vaccinate the mice.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
The Behind the Headlines 2013's Top Five of Top Fives
As we move towards the end of the year, like all news sources, we fall back on that classic space filler – the list story. So without further ado, here is the official Behind the Headlines Top Five of Top Fives stories of 2013.
The top five "Good work team!" stories of the year
We can often get bogged down in pointing out dodgy sub-group analyses, spurious extrapolations of samples sizes containing just four men and a dog, and RCTs pointing out the benefits of chocolate on blood pressure that turned out to be funded by a chocolate-making conglomerate. So it's important not to lose sight of the fact that ther...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Medical practice Source Type: news
Lasers used to regenerate damaged teeth
Conclusion
This laboratory study has shown that low-power laser therapy can direct dental stem cells to grow into one type of dental tissue, dentin.
A strength of the study is that it used the dental pulp from molar teeth in rats, which are similar to humans, rather than their incisors, which are open-rooted and continue to grow for life to replace loss from gnawing.
Limitations highlighted by the authors include:
the small sample size as a result of the limited availability of these particular rodents
technical difficulties of growing minute rodent teeth
widespread growth of dental tissue, which the authors th...
Source: NHS News Feed - May 29, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Genetics/stem cells Source Type: news
