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Insurance companies and hospital administrators like evidence-based research. For doctors and patients, sometimes it's more complicated

The Day in medicine Published Date: 08-13-2008 01:20 PM CT We're always hearing about the rising costs of prescription drugs... and how we're shelling out more and more to pay for them...But the problem is: the ...

SA health has issued a warning about a Chinese medicine after a 60-year-old man had an adverse reaction to it.

Lynn Lawry, MD, MSPH, MSc, director of research and education with the Uniformed Services University of the health Sciences' (USU) Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance medicine (CDHAM), is the senior author of a manuscript titled, Association Between Combatant Status and Sexual Violence and Health and Mental Health in Post-Conflict Liberia.' The article will be published in the Aug. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Tibolone, a synthetic drug used in many countries mainly to treat menopausal symptoms, reduces the risk of fractures and breast cancer, but also increases the risk of stroke in older women. Those are the findings of a study published in the August 14th issue of the New England Journal of medicine Researchers recruited 4,538 women, between the ages of 60 and 85 years, in 22 countries for this randomized, double-blind study. Half were given 1.

The largest study to date of testing errors reported by family physician offices in the United States found that problems occur throughout the testing process and disproportionately affect minority patients.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Aug. 14 issue of the New England Journal of medicine explores the issue of organ donation after cardiac death. In the journal's Perspective Roundtable, Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine, weighs in on the ethical considerations of the changing assumptions about when death occurs, the importance of respecting 'the dead donor rule' and how to decide which patients are suitable organ donors.