Insurance companies will no longer be allowed to discriminate against high risk patients or charge exorbitant premiums to screen them out.
They said it may make it easier for doctors to monitor high risk patients for cancer, and could potentially prevent cancer.
He also said that the use of Niaspan, particularly in high risk patients, should not be immediately changed based on the current study.
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Bextra has also been linked heart risk in high-risk patients.
The trials will examine whether the drug works both in patients with the bad gene and in high-risk patients without the gene.
Monday night, a panel convened by the FDA to weigh the data on the controversial diabetes pill agreed by a 20-3 vote that Avandia does increase the risk of heart attacks, particularly for certain high-risk patients like those who are sick enough to need insulin.
And for some high-risk patients who live too far away to easily track, Mitchell is pilot-testing whether a high-tech option helps them stick with care instructions.
Merck and Schering-Plough are conducting three additional studies, involving more than 20, 000 high-risk patients.
AdhereTx: Supports team-based medication management and reconciliation for high-risk patients at the point of care.
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High-risk patients can now schedule critical screenings to help detect and control what can be debilitating diseases when left untreated.
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Nearly all used care transition nurses who are specially trained to coach high-risk patients in ways to care for themselves.
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At the University of Utah, nurse Stephanie Wallace links high-risk patients to the outside care that could keep them from returning.
Rates are expected to keep rising with the growing use of invasive medical procedures, immune-suppressing therapies and more elderly and high-risk patients.
However, they suggested using the drug may need to be reappraised in high-risk patients such as those with wet AMD in one eye already.
Insurers fret that exchanges will be full of expensive, high-risk patients.
He recommended high-risk patients should be taught how to cough effectively, starting with a single cough every one to two seconds in bouts of five coughs.
Prof Jie Jin Wang, an expert in vision research at Sydney University in Australia, said this was something doctors might want to discuss with high-risk patients.
HPS2-THRIVE randomized 25, 673 high-risk patients who could tolerate niacin to either placebo or extended-release niacin plus laropiprant (Tredaptive, Merck), an anti-flushing agent, in addition to background therapy.
Meanwhile, ViroPharma in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
Antibiotics for the purpose of endocarditis prevention are still recommended for high-risk patients undergoing certain invasive procedures involving the dental area, respiratory tract and infected skin or musculoskeletal tissues.
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Stein also noted that researchers found that although the medication given to the participants could reduce cardiovascular events in high-risk patients, the drugs didn't influence the course or the development of ED.
Meanwhile, Dr. Allayee at USC plans to begin a 200-patient clinical trial testing whether leukotriene blockers like Singulair can prevent atherosclerosis in high-risk patients, as soon as he can obtain government funding.
The hope is to flag borderline cases or high-risk patients not spotted by existing tests--like a lean, 40-year-old nonsmoker with an innate vulnerability to heart attack--and target these patients for drugs or lifestyle changes.
Novartis was informed that the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) overseeing ALTITUDE had recommended stopping the trial because Tekturna was unlikely to show any benefit, and potential safety concerns had been identified in these high-risk patients.
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Meanwhile, ViroPharma (nasdaq: VPHM - news - people ) in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
Now that the results from this and other trials are in, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the FDA has approved applications from four manufacturers to make H1N1 flu vaccine, which should be ready for high-risk patients by October 15.
Mercy Health, a not-for-profit health system in Cincinnati, Ohio that owns six hospitals, was able to reduce its 30-day readmission rate to 14.5% as of November, from 16.9% in 2011, with a Care Transitions program that assigns nurses to high-risk patients to keep them out of the hospital.
's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor or Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor cut the odds of heart attack or stroke in high-risk patients by a third, but they also can cause side effects that destroy muscle tissue and, eventually, the liver.
Enhanced cardiovascular protective effects of valsartan in high-risk hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: Sub-analysis of the KYOTO HEART study.
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This trial will be open to high-risk neuroblastoma patients who are nine months from diagnosis and within four months of the last round of aggressive treatment to control the tumour.
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