Healthy Update - May 22, 2007

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Vol. XVI, Issue 18 -- May 22, 2007

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HEALTH NEWS BRIEFS

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'OFF-LABEL': DOCTORS PLAY FAST AND LOOSE WITH DRUGS, AND THE PATIENT

SUFFERS

As if drugs weren't dangerous enough already, doctors often use them as

'off-label' therapies as well. It's a medical euphemism for playing

around with drugs in ways for which they've not been approved or tested

for their safety. In one study of 7,752 heart patients, researchers

found that drug-eluting stents - metal tubes that release a drug to help

stop restenosis, where artery walls become blocked by plaque - were

wrongly used in 47 per cent of all cases.

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ANTIPSYCHOTICS FOR CHILDREN: PSYCHIATRISTS WHO ARE PAID THE MOST

PRESCRIBE THE MOST

Psychiatrists in America who are paid upwards of $5,000 from

manufacturers of atypical antipsychotics on average write three times as

many prescriptions for the drugs as those who don't get such a good

pay-off. The alarming practice of prescription pay-off has come to light

only because just one state in the USA †" Minnesota - requires full

disclosure of industry payments to physicians.

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NIH RESEARCHER RECEIVES LINUS PAULING INSTITUTE PRIZE

Dr. Mark Levine, an internationally recognized researcher on the

function and pharmacokinetics of vitamin C, has been awarded the Linus

Pauling Institute Prize for Health Research, one of the leading honors

in the world for excellence in the study of nutrition, micronutrients

and natural approaches to health. Levine is chief of the Molecular and

Clinical Nutrition Section at the National Institute of Diabetes and

Kidney Diseases, a part of the National Institutes of Health. He is

author of more than 125 publications in professional journals, has

studied vitamin C for more than 20 years and is considered one of the

leading scientists in the world on this essential antioxidant.

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