Not much is known about older adult’s use of prescription and over-the-counter medication. This is so, despite concerns about drug safety. The objective of this study, therefore, was to estimate the prevalence and patterns of medication use among older adults to determine the risk for major drug-drug interactions.
Three thousand five people aged 57 to 85 [...]
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Comment: Survey of Medication Use Among Older Adults in the US
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged dietary supplements, drug-drug interactions, medications, older adults in the US, over-the-counter drugs, prescription drugs on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Comment: Is Developmental Coordination Disorder a Subtype of ADHD?
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, DCD, Developmental Coordination Disorder, dopadecarboxylase gene, dopaminergic system, Motor Problems, MP on June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Children who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have developmental coordination disorder (DCD). DCD is a condition in which children have noticeable problems in moving, walking and manipulating objects without a medical problem like cerebral palsy. DCD occurs in approximately 5% to 7% of school-age children and about 30% to 50% of children with ADHD also [...]
Comment: Is Oral Prednisolone Always the Right treatment for Preschool Children with Acute Virus-Induced Wheezing?
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged prednisolone, wheezing, preschool children, acute virus-induced wheezing, allergy-induced asthma on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wheezing is common in preschool children between the ages of 10 months and 6 years. It is a sound associated with breathing that occurs when there is some kind of blockage of the respiratory system. When wheezing attacks are caused by upper respiratory viral infections, the standard treatment is a short course of oral prednisolone, [...]
Comment: Links between Autism Spectrum Disorders & Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged Autism, autism spectrum disorders, Childhood-onset schizophrenia, COS, epidemiological studies, National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, PDD, schizophrenia, symptoms on May 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There is emerging evidence for clinical and biological links between autism/pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) and schizophrenia, with particular attention to childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS). Autism is a brain development disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. PDD is [...]
Comment: Basal Ganglia Volume & Shape in Children with ADHD
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged ADD, ADHD, attention deficity disorder, basal ganglia volume & shape, children with ADHD, large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping, LDDMM on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Volumetric abnormalities of basal ganglia have been associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) especially in boys. ADHD is a prevalent neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by excessive difficulty with focusing attention, sitting still and controlling impulses. Before the era of neuroimaging, neurologists reported motor impairments and cognitive anomalies that implicated the frontal lobe. Among these subcortical [...]
Comment: Effective Preventive Supplementation with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic food
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged children under 5 years, culture, harvest season, HAZ, height, Niger, rain fed agriculture, ready-to-use-therapeutic-food, RUTF, stunting, thoughts, Travel, villages, wasting, weight, WHO, WHZ, World Health Organization on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wasting affects approximately 10% of the world’s children younger than 5 years, and is an important contributor to the population-attributable risk of child mortality and overall burden of disease. In Niger, a country of 14 million people, household food production is linked to rain fed agriculture. Staple crops such as millet and sorghum are harvested [...]
History of the American Medical Writer’s Association Part 5
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged chronic illness, computer games, dry up, medical writing, reading, senior citizens, visual and interactive, young people on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NOTE: This is Part 5 of a 5-part piece. Click here for Part 1. Click here for Part 2. Click here for Part 3. Click here for Part 4.
Today I’m going to muse about what could happen to suddenly cause medical writing to dry up. No one likes to think about negative things like [...]
History of the American Medical Writer’s Association Part 4
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged AMWA, AMWA-MAC Annual Conference and dinner, baby-boomer, computer games, reading, scenario, writing on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NOTE: This is Part 4 of a 5-part piece. Part 5 will appear next week. Click here for Part 1. Click her for Part 2. Click here for Part 3.
It is sometimes fun to sit back and imagine what will happen in the future. That is what I’m going to do today. What does the [...]
History of the American Medical Writer’s Association Part 3
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged AMWA, ghostwriting, JAMA, Merck, New York Times, Vioxx on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NOTE: This is Part 3 of a 5-part piece. Part 4 will appear next week. Click here for Part 1. Click here for Part 2.
Many members of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) work for pharmaceutical companies. Their job is to research, write, edit and compile documents to be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration [...]
