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Managed Care
March 2007
Lola Butcher |
Plans Put Greater Emphasis On Cancer Management Increasingly, health plans are rolling out services designed to help cancer patients and, before that, plan members at a high risk of cancer, to improve their health care and, in doing so, limit costs.   |
Managed Care
March 2000
Steve Heimoff |
Getting Out From Under Drug Companies' Shadows The perception that disease management is merely a drug marketing tool seems finally to have vanished from this healthy, though fragmented, industry. |
Managed Care
October 2000 |
Managing Health More Important Than Minding Cost? The most expensive types of care, on a per-person, annual basis... |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Drug R&D costs rising Inventing a new drug costs an enormous amount of money. It's part of the reason why the pharma industry is struggling to fill its pipelines. But we'd like to think that -- however slowly -- that cost is coming down. Unfortunately it isn't. |
ifeminists
February 2, 2005
Carey Roberts |
Men Feeling Blue on February the Fourth Two national health organizations are teaming up in an Orwellian effort to pander to women and mislead the American public about the threat of heart disease. |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2006 |
Parkinson's Disease: What You Should Know What is Parkinson's disease?... How can I tell if I have Parkinson's disease?... How will my doctor know if I have it?... How is Parkinson's disease treated?... etc. |
Bio-IT World
March 2007
Michael A. Greeley |
Can I Get Personal? VC's are back and seem very excited about the broader disease management and personalized medicine investment opportunities. |
American Family Physician
April 1, 2001
Joan Bedinghaus |
Coronary Artery Disease Prevention: What's Different for Women? Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women, as well as an important cause of disability, although many women and their physicians underestimate the risk... |
Salon.com
April 28, 2000
Dawn MacKeen |
A disease fueled by testosterone When a politician announces he has prostate cancer, what does it mean? |
Science News
April 25, 2009 |
Science Past From The Issue Of April 25, 1959 There appears to be a strong link between the behavior of a man with regard to his business and social activities and his chances of being a victim of a heart attack. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Ryan McBride |
Vertex's Telaprevir Clears Hurdle, Could Halve Treatment Times for Hepatitis C Study results are positive. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Future Cures Almost every disease known to man is under constant research and we can hardly go a day without hearing about some advancement or another. Here are a few diseases for which future cures could be looming on the horizon. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2002
Lori J. Mosca |
Optimal Management of Cholesterol Levels and the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Women Elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides and low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol are significant risk factors for coronary heart disease. Abundant data show inadequate utilization of lipid-lowering therapy in women... |
American Family Physician
April 15, 2003 |
Coronary Artery Disease: Reducing Your Risk What is coronary artery disease?... What causes CAD?... What can I do to lower my risk of CAD? |
ifeminists
October 29, 2002
Rondi Adamson |
Re-Evaluating the Risk of Breast Cancer As breast cancer became a poster disease for feminism in the 1980s, the attention it began to receive took on unreasonable proportions. In short, the intensity of funding, publicity and research around breast cancer is not based on need. It is based on politics. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Alzheimer's Disease 101 It's only in the last decade or so that we have truly come to understand the various disorders of the brain that are associated with age and, in most cases, Alzheimer's disease is the prime suspect. Read on for some basic information. |
Nursing Management
August 2008
Jill R. Quinn |
Women and Heart Disease: An Update A look at statistics regarding coronary heart disease in women as well as related risk factors and prevention. |
Chemistry World
May 22, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Scientists Seek Indicators of Illness A 17 million-pound fund has been set up by the UK's Medical Research Council for research into biomarkers, the tell-tale body chemicals that are associated with particular diseases. |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2005
Lockman et al. |
Treatment of Cholesterol Abnormalities The relationship between coronary heart disease and elevated cholesterol levels has been recognized for many years, but now studies show an improvement in patient-oriented outcomes in patients receiving drug therapy. |
Bio-IT World
November 14, 2003
Kathy Ordonez |
Targeted Medicine via Molecular Diagnostics Using diagnostics to select and deselect target populations for drug therapy will enable life scientists to make more effective medicines. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2000 |
Family Practice International Clinical Information From The International Family Medicine Literature: Anorexia Nervosa... Is Treating Elevated Lipid Levels Worthwhile?... Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder... |
Fast Company
April 2012
Tara Moore |
Diane Curley Is Starting The Conversation To Curb Obesity This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Diane Curly is treating obesity like any other disease or addiction and trains nurses to talk to patients about treatment. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
St. Jude Medical's Novel Heart Disease Diagnostic Tool Cleared in Europe St. Jude has an inventive new heart disease treatment. |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Managing the Unmanageable American Healthways is the leader in a whole new way of taking care of people. These shares aren't for the faint of heart, but growth investors should dig in and see for themselves if these shares could make their portfolio a bit healthier. |
Chemistry World
December 24, 2014
Phillip Broadwith |
EU recommends Parkinson's drug for approval The first new drug in 10 years for Parkinson's disease has been recommended for approval by the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use. |
American Family Physician
November 15, 2004 |
Chronic Kidney Disease An informative bulletin outlining the disease and treatment options. |
ifeminists
February 6, 2008
Carey Roberts |
Gutless Heart Association Tells Lies that Harm Women The truth about the American Heart Associations claims on why women need more heart health awareness initiatives than men. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2003
Gavin et al. |
Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes By increasing patient awareness of the link between diabetes and heart disease, family physicians can encourage patients to take medications (including aspirin), stop smoking, lower blood pressure, and lower cholesterol and blood glucose levels. |
Health
February 2007
Eric Steinmehl |
Your heart, only healthier An aspirin a day can save many women's lives. Is it right for you? |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2006
Freeman & Shulman |
Kawasaki Disease: Summary of the American Heart Association Guidelines Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis of childhood that predominantly affects the coronary arteries. The etiology of Kawasaki disease remains unknown, although an infectious agent is strongly suspected based on clinical and epidemiologic features. |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2003 |
Crohn's Disease What is Crohn's disease?... Who gets Crohn's disease?... How can my doctor tell if I have Crohn's disease?... How is Crohn's disease treated?... What can I expect after treatment?... etc. |
BusinessWeek
February 16, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
Medicare vs. Cancer Patients Refusing to reimburse off-label treatment is far from the best way to cut costs. |
Managed Care
April 2004
Martin Sipkoff |
Plans Go Directly to Patients, Describing Treatment Options HMOs are developing programs that encourage patients to question their physicians about their treatment options. Doctors are wary. |
American Family Physician
June 15, 2005
Hanna & Wenger |
Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Elderly Patients A review of the scientific evidence for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in the elderly. |
Chemistry World
August 3, 2015
Phillip Broadwith |
AstraZeneca sells off drugs to streamline portfolio Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca has agreed to sell the rights to two drugs that the company considers lie outside its strategic focus areas. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
February 1, 2012
William Looney |
Brand Success: It's Not Serendipity A new generation of products for inflammatory disease is coming forward, promising better promise and possibly a cure. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2008
Brian Lawler |
More Tysabri on the Way Biogen and Elan receive an additional approval for Tysabri. Investors, take note. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2002
Doron Schneider |
Diagnosis and Treatment of Paget's Disease of Bone Paget's disease of bone (also known as osteitis deformans) is a nonmalignant disease involving accelerated bone resorption followed by deposition of dense, chaotic, and ineffectively mineralized bone matrix... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Crazy Diseases Sometimes, the bizarre is beyond what anyone could have imagined. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
January 1, 2009
Amit Agarwal |
Overlooked Opportunities For pharma companies facing a difficult economic climate, pairing diagnostics with therapies offers a powerful incentive: Manufacturers can improve sales by helping physicians find the most appropriate therapeutic option. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2004
Evans & McNeill |
Quantum Sufficit Where there is depression, there also may be chronic pain... Mortality from prostate cancer is decreasing... New mothers may need to be reminded to take care of themselves... How U.S. medical students will live is affecting what they choose to do... etc. |
Nurse Practitioner
October 2009
Wallace et al. |
Shedding light on prostate cancer This article will discuss the risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnosis of prostate cancer, and disease staging and grading, as well as necessary lab and diagnostic tests, treatment options and patient education. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2005 |
Lyme Disease: What You Should Know An informative consumer guide to the disease, its symptoms and treatment options. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Ugly Side Effects Won't Derail This Drug Side effects don't matter much when there are no other treatment options, as in Cushing's disease. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Red Light Tomatoes Phytophthora disease (Phytophthora capsici), known as damping off on seedlings, seedling death, leaf blight, or fruit rot on mature plants, is an annual problem with home and commercial gardeners. Now researchers have a new safe technique to prevent this disease: red light.
a new safe technique to prevent this disease. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2013
Vansgaard et al. |
Develop Drugs for People, Not Just Bodies A patient-centric approach to drug development delivers the benefits that actually create value |
ifeminists
February 18, 2004
Carey Roberts |
Breaking the Hearts of Men Women are seeing red over the latest program from the American Heart Association, dubbed the "Go Red for Women" campaign. Why would women ever be perturbed about that? Because this one-sided campaign overlooks the fact that men have hearts, too. |
AskMen.com
Jasper Anson |
Alternative Cancer Treatments "Complimentary" therapies are forms of holistic healing that can improve a cancer patient's quality of life by focusing on their physical, spiritual and emotional needs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 1, 2005
Marsha Meyer |
Medical Education: Prevention Education Shifting the nation's healthcare paradigm from treating seniors' ills to preventing them will take the combined support of pharma companies, medical schools, continuing medical education (CME) providers, and clinicians. |
Wired
October 2006
Thomas Goetz |
The Thin Pill 75 million Americans may have something called metabolic syndrome. How Big Pharma turned obesity into a disease - then invented the drugs to cure it. |
