Tag Archives for medicine
Hey, Get Back and Take Your Meds!
Add “predictive initiatives” to the newest lingo in the crosshairs of medicine and long term care. Pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts Inc. is launching an innovative program that reaches out to patients they anticipate will fail to take their medications. That’s…
Tags: benefit managers, Express Scripts Inc., Health Care, insurers, Long Term Care, medication, medicine, PBM's, pharmacy, predictive initiatives
Not 1, Not 2, But 3!
Brace yourself – that’s the number of flu shots that may be necessary to protect oneself from the upcoming flu season. Two vaccines will be required for the H1N1 strain (swine flu) and one for seasonal flu. As of yet,…
Tags: Dr. John Treanor, flu, flu shots, H1N1, immunology, medicine, microbiology, swine flu, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, University of Rochester Medical Center, vaccines
Optimistic Advances in Search for an Alzheimer’s Miracle Drug
By Neil Bekker At the recent International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in Chicago, some interesting discoveries in Alzheimer’s research were presented. Claude Wischik, Ph.D., of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and founder and chairman of TauRx Therapeutics presented the…
Tags: Aging, Alzheimers/Dementia, amyloid and tangles, amyloid hypothesis, amyloid plaque, Claude Wischik, dementia, drugs, Health Care, International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease, link between alzheimer's and insulin, medicine, methylene blue, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, protein tangles, Rember, research — Tags: alzheimer's research, seniors, tau, TauRx Therapeutics
Hypertension Bad for the Brain?
~ by Cher Giovani The study wasn’t about dementia: it was about blood pressure. A British group researching hypertension in the elderly followed a group of participants aged 80 and over to record the effects of drug therapy treatment for…
Tags: Alzheimers/Dementia, blood pressure, calcium channel, dementia, elderly, heart disease, heart failure, hypertension, medicine, pharmacy, seniors, stroke, vascular dementia
When Drugs Just Make Things Worse
~ by Jeff Noley There are some drugs with side effects that are worse than what they treat. Or at the very least, are pretty rotten compared to the alternatives. Avandia is one example of a drug you might want…
Tags: Augmentin, Avandia, Celebrex, diabetes, doxycycline, drugs, Ketek, Medical News, medicine, pharmacy, Physicians' Desk Reference, pneumonia, prescription, Zithromax
