50 and Ready for Colonoscopy? Doctors Say Wait Is Often Long

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The 2001 change in Medicare coverage to offer the colonoscopy for healthy people and other public messages on preventing colon cancer have made the colonoscopy a waiting-list medical test. Due to its effectiveness in catching early signs of colon cancer and helping patients survive, both healthy and unhealthy patients are seeking the test and are willing to wait until a doctor can provide a screening. Demand for colonoscopies by Medicare patients increased 42% from 2000 through 2002. The latest version of the test, the virtual colonoscopy, uses a C.T. scanner but is not covered by health insurers.

Strategy & planning, Management dynamics, Health aspects, Planning, Testing, Practice, Colonoscopy, Colorectal diseases, Intestinal diseases, Company business planning, Gastroenterologists, Colonic diseases

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Questions Are Seen On Merck's Stance On Pain Drug's Use

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Although Merck and Company Inc. claimed that Vioxx, a pain medication, reduced the risk for gastrointestinal bleeding, their own research suggested that might not be the case, if patients also took low dose aspirin. Improved gastrointestinal safety was one of the reasons that Vioxx, Bextra, and Clebrex, all Cox-2 inhibitors, were being prescribed.

Science & research, Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Aspirin, Aspirin Combinations, Research, Pharmaceutical industry, Product information, Complications and side effects, Risk factors, Gastrointestinal bleeding, Gastrointestinal hemorrhage, COX-2 inhibitors, Ulcers, Dosage and administration, Drug interactions, Celebrex (Medication), Vioxx (Medication), Merck & Company Inc., Bextra (Medication)

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