Area agency providing assistance with deciphering drug programs
Observer-Reporter - Nancy Day was trying to get by with less medication than she actually needed to keep her heart condition and diabetes under control. Bradley Deems is bewildered by Medicare Part D. Mary Hoke and her husband, Homer, said they were at one time spending

Overdose at prison under investigation
Everett Herald - MONROE - Investigators are trying to determine how an inmate at the Monroe Correctional Complex got enough methadone to overdose in his prison cell. The inmate, Jade Jefferson, 25, of Bellingham was serving time for robbery. He was found dead in his

Inmates sue over St. Louis water
Morning Sun - Recent headlines about contaminants in the drinking water have given the prison inmates in St. Louis one more item to add to their list of complaints in a suit against the prisons. Suits filed by prison inmates against the warden, the Michigan

Prescribe lifestyles as well as medicines
Montgomery Advertiser - When the doctor talks, we ought to listen. Too many of us do not, however, and the consequences for the nation’s health are serious. Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. surgeon general, was back in his native state last week for an address at the Minority

Researchers examine spice sensitivity in rats to understand pain
Yale Daily News - If the rats used in a recent experiment by School of Medicine pharmacology professor Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt invaded Samurai, they would have an easier time gorging themselves on spicy sushi rolls than the restaurant’s regular patrons would. “They could

Manor crosswalk accident victims struggling to put their lives back in
Pacifica Tribune - Diane Boul and Ruth Weiller discovered how, in one split second, their lives could profoundly changed. Victims of a car versus pedestrian accident in a crosswalk on Manor Drive, Boul and Weiller were walking across the street mid-block to enjoy a

Doctor: Artery Disease Caused Heart Attack 
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Mar 28 7:37 PM
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Testifying on behalf of Merck & Co., a cardiologist on Tuesday blamed coronary artery disease - not Vioxx - for a heart attack suffered by a man suing the maker of the now-withdrawn arthritis drug. Dr. Barry Rayburn, a professor of medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham hired by Merck as a $600-an-hour expert witness, said Tuesday his review of John McDarby’s Save to My Web

Ankle arthritis 
Manila Bulletin - Mar 28 8:50 AM
ANKLE arthritis is a result of damaged or worn cartilage at the joint that connects the foot to the leg. It may be the result of injury, wear and tear, deformity or inflammation. In the early stages, activity modification, weight loss, rest, and acetaminophen are the primary treatment strategies.Save to My Web

Early arthritis drug approved 
The Australian - Mar 29 12:36 AM
AUSTRALIANS will be able to access a drug for the early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, instead of waiting until other treatments failed. Affecting more than 450,000 Australians, the debilitating inflammatory disease damages the joints of up to 75 per cent of patients in the first two years.Save to My Web

On Growing Old:Some Thoughts 
News From Bangladesh - 2 hours, 32 minutes ago
I grow old.I grow old I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. T.S. Eliot When asked of my past, every detail Ill know, But what was I doing ten minutes ago?Save to My Web

Joint plan of attack of rheumatoid arthritis 
Herald Sun - Mar 30 6:17 AM
EARLY diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis could save sufferers from a lifetime of pain, disability and unemployment. Research into the potentially crippling auto-immune disease that usually attacks younger people shows new drugs applied early could add 10 quality years to their life.Save to My Web

Vision Care Expert 
WAVY 10 - Mar 30 5:58 AM
Hampton Roads Eye Associates is a team of ophthalmologists, optometrists, ophthalmic nurses, technicians, assistants, and opticians providing the most comprehensive eye care in Hampton Roads.Save to My Web

Alternative pharmacy
WTHR - Marion County, March 28 - Beverly Copeland taught physical education in Wayne Township for 32 years. She’s an athletic baby boomer taking anti-oxidants and more. “I take an immune product. I use meal replacements. It’s a soy protein type drink that I

Nixing the Need for the Needle
Wired News - Hypodermic needles persist at least partly because they are inexpensive and entrenched in medical care. But they’ve been tough to replace for treating illnesses like diabetes for other reasons. It’s exceedingly difficult to get large molecules, like

Chronic Pain
Health Talk - Doctors make a distinction between acute pain and chronic pain. In most cases, acute pain goes away quickly. It’s also useful, because it’s really a warning signal of potential harm and tells you to protect yourself while the body heals. Chronic pain

Herb Scene: Chickweed
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - Seek medical advise before trying any supplements. Many serious medical conditions are not appropriate for self-diagnosis or self-medication and require the supervision of qualified health-care providers. The medicinal part of this herb (Stellaria

New Medical Marijuana Battle Heads To Court
Sacramento Union - SAN FRANCISCO This week, a federal appeals court in California will hear arguments in the latest round of legal wrangling over the issue of medical marijuana. The case to be argued before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday narrows

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New England Journal of Medicine - Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 354, No. 12. This summary covers the issue of March 23, 2006. Featured are articles on buproprion, sertraline, or venlafaxine after the failure of SSRIs for depression, medication augmentation

Schwarz Pharma Says Epilepsy Drug Met Trial Goals (Update2)
Bloomberg - 21 hours ago… The company has said it expects to garner sales of as much as $1 billion a year from the medicine, which may also help treat neuropathic pain. …

Stop Headaches Before They Start Says Dr Matt Ehrhard
ClickPress (press release), United Arab Emirates - 8 hours ago… in hundreds of patients who previously had little help from traditional medicine. … segment of our population who suffer silently with headache pain almost every …

Your Questions on Back Pain
NPR - Mar 8, 2006… Scott Fishman, chief of University of California, Davis’ Division of Pain Medicine, will field questions about pain management. …

A hero in so many ways
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - 5 hours ago… E. Pollard, as a urologist who served his community for more than 50 years in medicine. … For him, I am sure there is still pain when he thinks about friends he …

In This Issue: Glimpses of a Transformed Model of Care
Annals of Family Medicine - Mar 28, 2006The Future of Family Medicine Report 1 calls for a New Model of care 2 … the already high rate of diagnostic accuracy among patients with chest pain seeking care …

Former Canton family endures loss on 9-11
Canton Daily Ledger, IL - 8 hours ago… Then Debbie developed leg pain, which they thought were sciatica problems. … The doctor prescribed anti-inflammatory medicine and muscle relaxers. …

Fighting inflammation with targeted liposomal therapy
EurekAlert - RGD peptide liposomes delivering corticosteroids directly to inflamed sites indicate promise for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis Vascular endothelial cells (VECs) form the walls of blood vessels and play a critical role in inflammation. In

Utah Health Care in Crisis Coming up short
Deseret News - When his wife developed what appeared to be arthritis, with pain so severe she could barely move, longtime Arthritis Foundation volunteer Gene Overfelt found he couldn’t get her in to see a specialist for more than two months. Using his connections

Nick Hut
Northwest Herald - It was good to see Jerry Azumah looking fit and sounding optimistic about the future when he announced his retirement from the Bears on Thursday. You hope he stays that way. You hope Azumah, 28, got out before moving too far down the road toward a

RC RACERS LAP IT UP
Great Falls Tribune - Racing a radio control vehicle has a major advantage over taking the driver’s seat of a real race car. “When you hit a wall or roll, it doesn’t bruise you so bad,” said former stock car driver Leland Blomberg. “It’s easier on the body.” The

CASPAR WEINBERGER
The State - Caspar W. Weinberger , who held high positions under three Republican presidents and oversaw the biggest and costliest military buildup in peacetime history as Ronald Reagan s secretary of defense, died Tuesday in Bangor, Maine, his family said. He

Tailor-Made Treatment For Rheumatoid Arthritis, Japan
Medical News Today - Tokyo, (JCN) - Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Order-Made Souyaku and NTT Data jointly announced on March 23 that they have started research for establishing tailor-made treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. The three partners aim to create a system

Highlights of Tuesday’s testimony in Atlantic City, N.J., trial
The State - THE CASE: Two New Jersey men who suffered heart attacks while taking Vioxx blame the now-withdrawn Merck & Co. arthritis drug for their heart attacks. The drug was pulled off the market in September 2004 after a study linked it to heart attacks and

How US War on Drugs Frightens Doctors and Punishes Patients
Arab News, Saudi Arabia - Mar 24, 2006… sclerosis patient Richard Paey is serving 25 years in a Florida prison for trafficking 1/2 gram of OxyContin, a widely used pain medication, even though …

Potential Shoulder Pain Relief
Ivanhoe, FL - 10 hours ago… non-surgical therapies like steroid injection and various oral pain medications. … those patients treated with five injections of the active medication and those …

Mother Pleads Guilty In Infant’s Death
KUTV, UT - 19 hours ago… Judge Leslie Lewis ordered Archuleta, who will remain free on supervised release, to see a psychiatrist once a week, take no pain medication and have no …

Sorenson Medical Receives FDA Approval to Release ambIT PreSet …
Business Wire (press release), CA - Mar 28, 2006… to use and deliver medication precisely. The ambIT(R) line of infusion pumps offers physicians new options for managing post-operative pain, for delivering …

Morgan County coroner candidate arrested for second time
Kentucky.com, KY - Mar 25, 2006WEST LIBERTY, Ky. - A candidate for Morgan County coroner has been charged with stealing pain medication from an elderly woman while campaigning door-to-door. …

Mission Impossible? Silent birthing
Boston Herald, United States - 9 hours ago… cause psychic damage, setting the child up for years of therapy. Mothers-to-be are also denied pain medication during labor. …

Staying healthy while flying
myDNA.com, TX - 14 hours ago… changes in pressure that cause the ear blocking and pain experienced by … music, doing relaxation techniques and taking anti-anxiety medication might alleviate …

Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs Won’t Boost Lymphoma Risk
Forbes - Feb 27, 200627 (HealthDay News) — Experts have long known that rheumatoid arthritis boosts the risk for lymphoma, but the reason for this connection has remained unclear. …

Ways to tame zits
AZ Central.com, AZ - 17 hours ago… Sources: Valley physicians Kristine Romine and Bill Halmi, the American Academy of Dermatology, and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and …

Severe Arthritis Linked to Increased Cancer Risk
FOX News - Feb 27, 2006Rheumatoid arthritis patients with the most severe disease are roughly 70 times more likely to develop lymphoma, a type of cancer, than patients with mild …

When arthritis strikes children
Washington Times, DC - 16 hours ago… The Baltimore native suffers from uveitis, a blinding complication of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Although juvenile rheumatoid …

Australia OKs drug as arthritis treatment
Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ - Mar 24, 2006said Thursday that Australian regulators have revised their indication of the drug Remicade to include treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis, and approved a …

Arthritis & Exercise
50 Connect, UK - Mar 18, 2006… adults with osteoarthritis of the knee, according to new research from Wake Forest University published in the May issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. …

Discovery of Pivotal Pathway to Regulating Inflammatory Arthritis
Newswise (press release) - Mar 20, 2006… of Medicine have discovered that blocking an intracellular signaling enzyme in a key pathway may lead to effective new treatments to fight rheumatoid arthritis …

The Maker’s Diet
Belief.Net - Jordan S. Rubin is a nutritionist and a naturopath, but his “Maker’s Diet,” based on the health precepts Jordan found in the Bible, is not a product of his advanced degrees, but his own illness and his particular brand of Christianity. His regimen

6 Men Hospitalized in Clinical Drug Trial
KXAN - Two men are in critical condition and another four men are in serious but stable condition in a London hospital after they all suffered serious side effects while taking part in a clinical trial of an experimental drug. The men were taking part in a

Pres. Faust lauded as ‘Distinguished’
Deseret News - A former attorney, a high school football letterman, a husband, father, church leader and the “family Google.” And now, President James E. Faust of the LDS Church’s First Presidency is the 2006 Distinguished Utahn of the Year. Ravell Call, Deseret

Tile warmers do the trick
Sun-Journal - Outdoor living spaces are turning as warm and cozy as the family room, whether you can enjoy them for two months or 12. In the latest outdoor makeovers, indoor style has fast become an outdoor phenomenon, from growth in exterior kitchens to

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Drugs from llamas? Belgian firm eyes IPO next year
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A Belgian biotechnology company using llama DNA to develop a new class of drugs hopes to float on the Euronext stock market next year, its incoming chief executive said on Monday. Ablynx, a pioneer of antibody-derived medicines

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare First To Use Latest Robotic Surgical
Medical News Today - Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) today announced that Evanston Hospital will be the first facility in Illinois to perform surgery using Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Surgical System. The da Vinci Surgical System is an addition to Intuitive

Femara Approved In Germany As Initial Therapy For Postmenopausal
Medical News Today - Novartis has announced that Femara (letrozole) has received approval in Germany for use after surgery in postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer (adjuvant setting). This is the first major European market approval for this

Spirituality can soothe body and soul
AZCentral.com - To stay healthy, most people know they need to eat right, get plenty of exercise and rest, as well as avoid bad habits such as smoking. But, it might surprise you to learn that how you feel and what you believe can have a big impact on your health

Dangerous divide
Ottawa Sun - OTTAWA’S Michel Chartrand and his wife, Judy Varin, call it “maddening” Ontario won’t let him use Avastin in his battle with colorectal rancer unless he pays for it. (Blair Gable, SUN) WHEN ALAIN GOURD moved across the Ottawa River to Quebec just

Growing milkers
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - WAVERLY — In a small, sterile tray Dr. Michael Pugh searches for life — about 1/200th of an inch big. “So far I found two embryos,” said Pugh, as he peered through a microscope. Fertilized embryos — animals in the earliest stage of development

Fitness For Your Feet
Medical News Today - The limousines are in the garage, the red carpets are rolled up - and your feet are suffering the stiletto sting. Now that awards season has drawn to a close in Los Angeles, there are a number of glamorous gams in town suffering a painful let-down

Dispensary battling to stay open
Desert Sun - Alan Layton of La Quinta, the patients advocate for CannaHelp and executive coordinator for Marijuana Anti-Prohibition Project holds his state-issued medical marijuana identification card at the CannaHelp Palm Desert dispensary office. The dispensary

Wasabi’s kick linked to single pain receptor
PhysOrg - A single pain receptor is responsible for the kick delivered by garlic and mustard oil, which is the active ingredient in mustard and in the pungent green sushi condiment known as wasabi, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published this

A cholesterol-lowering drug changes patient’s white hair to gray
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Q: I have read in your column that cholesterol-lowering drugs might affect hair color. I was relieved, because I was afraid I was going nuts. My hair has been pure white for years. Since I started taking Zetia, I have noticed that it has turned steel

CRIME ALERT: More Attempted Kidnappings
El Paso News - Friday, March 24, 2006 Police say this is happening a lot. Many times, it’s when the child is walking home from school. This year there have been seven reported incidents of attempted kidnapping of a child. There were only two all last year. In

Mother deals with double dose of sons’ bipolar disorder
Lexington Herald-Leader - Despite years of therapy, despite knowing that guilt and self-blame are futile, that what happened to one son, what still is happening to another, can be explained only by the stark vocabulary of a medical diagnosis, Linda Pardo wrestles with a

Sheriffs From Three Other States To Join Coalition
El Paso News - Now sheriffs from New Mexico, Arizona, and California are joining Texas border sheriffs to share resources, communication, and information with border sheriffs from Texas and New Mexico. With the new additions comes a new name the Southwest