AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Bupropion effect much better in controlled trials.(Clinical Rounds)
NEW ORLEANS -- Low-income smokers prescribed bupropion in primary care settings are less successful with smoking cessation than participants in controlled trials, according to a study presented at the annual conference of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Multicenter trials indicate that sustained-release bupropion helps 44% quit at 7 weeks, compared with 19% taking a placebo (N. Engl. J. Med. 1997;337:1195-202) and 58% of cigarette smokers quit at 9 weeks, compared with 16% taking a placebo (N. Engl. J. Med. 1999;340:685-91).
But participants in those bupropion trials did not reflect the patient population in Fresno County, according to Evelyn Fang, M.D. The county has a 23% poverty rate (vs. 14% for California), a high rate of stroke and heart disease, and an increasing rate of lung cancer deaths.
Physicians at one family medicine clinic and two internal medicine clinics associated with the University of California, San Francisco, Fresno campus, screened and referred patients to Dr. Fang and her associates. The researchers enrolled 72 participants over 3 months from the University of California, San Francisco, Fresno ...
- Salk immunogen to be tested soon in national controlled trials. (Jonas E. Salk)
- Newspaper article from: AIDS Alert August 1, 1990 700+ words
...immunogen to be tested soon in national controlled trials National placebo-controlled trials of the immunogen co-developed by Jonas...International Conference on AIDS, held recently in San Francisco. Salk, the developer of the inactivated...
- The promise of the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment: a new tool to use against...
- Magazine article from: International Midwifery Joyce, Dawn Clark, Jennifer Miller, Suellen March 1, 2007 700+ words
...haemorrhage, and gynaecological and obstetric haemorrhage. (9-12) With the release of the results from three randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in the mid-1980s and 1990s, the PASG fell into disfavour with emergency medicine and came to be called one...
- Ginger, vitamin [B.sub.6] ease nausea in pregnancy.(Women's Health)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Boschert, Sherry December 1, 2007 700+ words
SAN FRANCISCO -- Multiple clinical trials...University of California, San Francisco. * Ginger. Six randomized, controlled trials found significant reductions...6]. Two randomized, controlled trials (with 59 and 342 patients...
- Fish may be adjunct for postpartum depression.(Adult Psychiatry)
- Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News Boschert, Sherry November 1, 2007 700+ words
SAN FRANCISCO -- Eating fish or taking omega...the University of California, San Francisco. Four small randomized, controlled trials of omega-3 fatty acids given...cooked prawns. BY SHERRY BOSCHERT San Francisco Bureau
- Why give the WHI diet study credence?(GUEST EDITORIAL)
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Ornish, Dean May 1, 2006 700+ words
...at the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and the University of California, San Francisco have conducted randomized controlled trials showing that more intensive changes in diet and lifestyle may stop or reverse the progression...
- Setting the record straight on low-fat diets.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Ornish, Dean May 15, 2006 700+ words
...at the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and the University of California, San Francisco, have conducted randomized controlled trials showing that more intensive changes in diet and lifestyle may stop or reverse the progression...
- Set the record straight on low-fat diets.(Guest Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Ornish, Dean April 1, 2006 700+ words
...at the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and the University of California, San Francisco have conducted randomized controlled trials showing that more intensive changes in diet and lifestyle may stop or reverse the progression...
- Rethinking randomized controlled trials
- Magazine article from: Canadian Medical Association. Journal Howick, Jeremy November 18, 2008 700+ words
Rethinking randomized controlled trials Randomized Controlled Trials: Questions, Answers and Musings, second edition...ISBN 978-1-4051-3266-4 When Randomized Controlled Trials was first published in 1998, it was hailed in...
