Issues covered include who is eligible to receive drugs, how drug coverage is paid for, and how much money states spend on drugs. The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality recently released this new survey found that medical errors are now among the public's leading measures of health care quality. It's great to see them, and there are few other people that you can quite so easily relax and slob out in your comfiest clothes amongst. Transient increases in intravascular pressure significantly depress endothelium-dependent vasodilation in human resistance arteries, a study has found.
Symptoms improve with weight loss and worsen with weight gain, researchers report.
A new salvo has been fired in the ongoing debate over the dietary supplement ephedra, which has come under increasing scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration. A literature review and risk analysis released today says ephedra is safe and effective for weight loss at 90 mg per day, divided into 30 mg doses. Some medications may be safe for most to take, but not for people with pulmonary hypertension. The prescription drug ads that regularly air on television and appear in magazines pitch medicines directly to consumers, a strategy that the drug industry says educates Americans about various medications. But after studying 320 of the ads, published from 1989 through 1998 in 18 magazines from Business Week to Vogue , a scientific team reports that in addition to failing to educate, most don't explain the basics and some cleverly obscure facts about the products they promote.