Personification of medicine compromises therapy: when a patient transfers...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......people in the patient's life. This...or exacerbate side effects, amplify distress...actually cause side effects--the nocebo effect...described one patient who was nauseated...her sick; [the patient] was revolted...vulnerable to side effects of fatigue, and a ...

Personification of drugs compromises therapy: when a patient transfers...

Skin & Allergy News;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......people in the patient's life. This...of exacerbate side effects, amplify distress...actually cause side effects--the nocebo effect...described one patient who was nauseated...her sick; [the patient] was revolted...vulnerable to side effects of fatigue, and a ...

Doctors who fail to advise held liable; Court rules they must tell...

The Washington Times;  December 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......for failing to warn patients about the side effects of the drugs they prescribe...his failure to warn a patient about the side effects of drugs. The justices...explicitly tell his patient about potential side effects, the court found him...

Many Discharged Patients Do Not Know Diagnoses, Medications, Side Effects;...

AScribe Business & Economics News Service;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......than one-half of their study patients were unable to list their...of medications) and common side effects of prescribed medications...physicians because failure of patients to follow treatment plans...treatment plan, and common side effects of prescribed medications. They studied 43 ...

Unrecognised Side Effects of Schizophrenia Treatment May Be Leading...

PR Newswire;  October 5, 1998 ;     657 words ......suggest that there are patients suffering treatment side effects which are not recognised...most distressing side effects that these patients are suffering. These...If we know what side effects are bothering our patients then we can do something...

Aripiprazole in a Patient Susceptible to Urinary Side Effects of...

The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences;  January 1, 2007 ;     669 words ......he had no other side effects including extrapyramidal...medication. The patient was then given...follow-up, the patient presented with...due to urinary side effects. Injectable haloperidol...to 10mg and the patient was closely observed...development of any side ...

PATIENTS SHOULD KNOW SIDE EFFECTS OF DRUGS

The Washington Post;  January 10, 1995 ;     308 words ......often fail to warn patients about potential side effects of drugs is fear of...suggestion. Telling patients about possible side effects, it is supposed, may...discuss potential side effects with patients. The new study was...

LANDMARK GALLUP SURVEY DOCUMENTS QUIET REVOLUTION; CHEMOTHERAPY PATIENTS...

PR Newswire;  September 13, 1995 ;     700+ words ......wanting to avoid side effects, most patients whose unwanted adverse...desire to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy, most patients said they wanted...of other serious side effects. It's important that patients and their fam

New genetic tests could help patients avoid drug side effects

AP Online;  June 16, 1998 ;     700 words ......will actually work _ and a patient won't be one of the unlucky...pills and which Alzheimer's patients should try tacrine. ``This...medicines don't work for every patient, and some are dangerous...fail, and who will suffer side effects. ``It's a crapshoot...pills. A rare but serious ...

Shuttling medicines via blood cells. (Biomedicine).(using patient's own...

Science News;  June 15, 2002 ;     244 words ......would fight inflammation, patients could avoid the side effects. Toward that end, researchers...encapsulating the drugs inside a patient's own red blood cells. There...Urbino in Italy. Instead, the patient always has a low but clinically...the drug were present in the patient's blood ...

'Docs must tell patients about drug side effects'

The Hindustan Times;  June 8, 2008 ;     299 words ......prescribing a drug fails to inform a patient about its side effects it amounts to deficiency in service...to pay Rs 1.14 lakh to the widow of a patient, Pralhad Korgaonkar, who died due to...Euglucon without ascertaining whether the patient was in fact suffering from diabetes...

Conversion from mycophenolate mofetil to enteric-coated mycophenolate...

Progress in Transplantation;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......suggested improved side effects profile. Participants-Five patients who previously had...suffered from GI side effects, and 9% of the patients said these symptoms...to have fewer GI side effects.5-7 Five patients who previously had...

Prostate Cancer Patients Blindsided by Side Effects.(Brief Article)

Urologic Nursing;  June 1, 2001 ;     624 words ......that their patients are experiencing...disturbing side effects such as hot...than half of patients (52%) experienced...more of these side effects, the survey...devastating side effects, the disconnect between patients and physicians...

Patients with Epilepsy more vulnerable to behavioral side effects than...

M2 Presswire;  May 29, 2003 ;     400 words ......treatment-related behavioral side effects than patients receiving the same drug...epilepsy because such side effects occur in few patients overall, but what this...increasing behavioral side effects in some patients. More research is needed...

A randomized clinical of a brief hypnosis intervention to control side...

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis;  January 1, 2008 ;     686 words ......hypnosis intervention to control side effects in breast surgery patients. Journal of the National Cancer...cancer and breast surgery patients. In this study, the authors...very brief intervention with patients prior to their experience...