As they struggle to contain skyrocketing medication costs, health plans across the U.S. have responded by implementing multi-tiered formularies requiring higher copayments for ‘non-preferred’ medications. New research from Brandeis University published in the Journal of Mental Health Policy Read the rest of this entry »
Heart failure outpatients have similar numbers of symptoms and levels of depression and spiritual well-being as patients with advanced lung and pancreatic cancer, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 9th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.
In their study, researchers from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine also found that heart failure Read the rest of this entry »
16 Jul 2008
The best available treatment for chronic kidney disease from high blood pressure did not keep the disease from substantially worsening in about a fourth of African-Americans studied, according to long-term results of a National Institutes of Health study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The largest and longest study of chronic kidney disease in African-Americans Read the rest of this entry »
Mayo Clinic research suggests unmarried women living in rural areas have lower self-rated health status than their married counterparts. This lower health status often includes greater instances of self-assessed feelings of depression. The results of the study were recently published in the Journal Read the rest of this entry »
15 Jul 2008
An article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine
reports that statins - medications that are usually prescribed to lower
blood cholesterol levels - may also lower blood pressure. Generic diflucan pills no prescription Beatrice A.
Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla)
and colleagues noted a modest but significant Read the rest of this entry »