Prabodhi & other: August 2008

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Trends In Prescription Medication Sharing Among Reproductive-Aged Women

�Borrowing and sharing of prescription medications is a serious medical and public health vexation. A survey of most 7,five hundred women of reproductive age found that this is common practice among more than tierce of this population, according to a report published online in advance of print in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The paper is available free on-line at http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/jwh.2007.0769

A study intentional to trace patterns of prescription medicine borrowing and sharing among various groups of adults revealed that women of reproductive long time (18-44 days) are more likely to report this practice (36.5%) than are former aged women (19.5%). In the overall surveil of more than 25,000 women and workforce, 28.8% of women and 26.5% of men reported ever borrowing or sharing prescription medications.

In a paper entitled "Prescription Medication Borrowing and Sharing among Women of Reproductive Age," Emily Petersen, Sonja Rasmussen, Katherine Daniel, Mahsa Yazdy, and Margaret Honein, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta, Georgia) and Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education (Oak Ridge, Tennessee), report that allergy medications (43.8%) and pain medications (42.6%) were the types of drugs most normally borrowed or shared by reproductive-aged women.

The authors punctuate some of the risks involved in using some other person's prescription drugs, including unanticipated side of meat effects, complications of wrong use, drug-drug interactions, antibiotic drug resistance, and risk of addiction. Of great importance for reproductive-aged women is the risk of infection of teratogenic effects on a development embryo or fetus if the women were to become pregnant while pickings the medication.

"This study confirms what many health precaution providers suspect," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, in Richmond, VA. "It is clear that patients need to be counseled about the potential risks of sharing and adoption medications, especially if they are women of reproductive age."

Journal of Women's Health is a core multidisciplinary journal consecrate to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or ar more predominant among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the modish advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and curative protocols for the bar and management of women's healthcare issues. Journal of Women's Health is the Official Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA; http://www.amwa-doc.org/).

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authorised peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research including Obesity Management, Breastfeeding Medicine, Thyroid, Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, and Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics. Its biotechnology patronage magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete lean of the firm's 60 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at http://www.liebertpub.com/

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 140 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801 http://www.liebertpub.com/

Source: Vicki Cohn

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

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Thursday, 21 August 2008

Trae And Jones Refuse To Make Peace

Texas rappers TRAE and MIKE JONES have apologised for combat backstage at Monday night's (11Aug08) Ozone Awards - but non to each other.

Jones was punched and Trae was escorted from the Houston case after the fracas stony-broke out behind the point.

The fight started spell the rappers were having a conversation, and Trae threw the first punch, Jones revealed.

Both stars have since apologised for the incident - simply refuse to make public security with each other.

Jones says, "First off before I point any fingers, I personally do want to apologise for the incident that happened at the Ozone Awards. I hope you all don't get the wrong impression of me or my city.

"I apologise once again for everything that happened only I cannot apologise for having to defend myself from somebody bringing unexpected or un-called violence to me and my family at whatsoever time."

And Trae has also offered apologies to his fans.

He says, "I receive to learn the time out to apologise to the kids, and to anyone wHO follows and supports my career for what happened at the Ozone Awards.

"I told myself that I was gonna do my topper for the new earned run average of the streets non to go through the experiences that I go through in life. For a split second, I almost entertained the little girl tactics of a person who is really irrelevant nowadays.

"I would like the world to recount Mr. Jones that he can thank me later for his split second of renown."

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