1 in 40 adults older than 40 years has glaucoma
One in 40 adults older than 40 years has glaucoma with loss of visual function. Adults have one of the two forms of glaucoma: – open-angle glaucoma – angle-closure glaucoma Diagnosis At least half of glaucoma cases are undiagnosed. Glaucoma is mostly asymptomatic until late in the disease when visual problems arise. Vision loss from [...]
Bringing Down High Blood Pressure, 1st ed. 2010
Bringing Down High Blood Pressure, 2010 Chad A. Rhoden and Sarah Wiley Schein ISBN-10: 1590771591 ISBN-13: 978-1590771594 M. Evans and Company, Inc. Learn straightforward solutions you can incorporate both immediately and in the long term. Focusing on lifestyle factors readers can change, Dr. Rhoden weighs in on alternative therapies for reducing blood pressure, while Sarah [...]
Once More with Feeling: Another Defense of Conflicts of Interest Based on Logical Fallacies
Despite increasing recognition of the adverse effects of health care professionals’ and health care institutions’ conflicts of interest on health care, such financial relationships continue to have their prominent defenders. The latest example was an article in Medscape General Surgery by Frank J Veith MD, entitled “Physicians and Industry: Fix the Relationships, but Keep Them Going.” Dr [...]
Abbott Laboratories Settles
Another day, another settlement, this time,as reported by Reuters: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N) and French drugmaker Fournier have agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle a multistate lawsuit that accused them of conspiring to block generic forms of their TriCor treatment for triglycerides. The drugmakers will pay the money [...]
Special issue: Innovation and creativity in urban management
International Journal of Sustainable Development 13(1/2) 2010 Developing and sustaining creative cities: a sustainability tool for designers, planners, and public administrators Integrated spatial assessment for a creative decision-making process: a combined methodological approach to strategic environmental assessment Impact evaluation of creative city policies Creative connectivity between research and policy-making to support implementation of urban sustainability [...]
