FDA warns antipsychotic drugs may be risky for elderly

Article Abstract:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had warned that the treatment with atypical antipsychotic drugs might cause a nearly 2-fold increase in the rate of death in elderly dementia patients. Analyses of 17 placebo-controlled studies of four drugs have revealed a 4.5% mortality rate among elderly patients with dementia who were treated for behavioral symptoms with these second-generation antipsychotics compared with a 2.6% mortality rate among patients treated with a placebo.

Health aspects, Risk factors, Dementia, Aged patients, Elderly patients, Antipsychotic drugs, Antipsychotic agents

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State-federal partnerships for access to care: An end and a means

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The state-based health care reforms are discussed in order to understand the impact of states-federal partnerships on health care in the U.S. The federal bills will be providing grants to states for extending health care coverage and promoting the state initiatives might improve the equity, quality and efficiency of the troubled health care system for an important fraction of the U.S. public.

Health care reform, Federal-state relations

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Children's health study closer to launch

Article Abstract:

A huge nationwide children's health study, which could answer queries about the role of the environment in birth defects, asthma, diabetes, and other conditions, would start by 2007, however, if it does not receive adequate funding then the project could be delayed. The study is designed to satisfy the federal Children's Health Act passed by Congress in 2000.

Care and treatment, Children, Birth defects, Asthma in children, Childhood asthma, Child health

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