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Perforomist Inhalation Solution Data Presented At American Thoracic Society Conference
Data from two presentations highlighting the use of Perforomist® (formoterol fumarate) Inhalation Solution in moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients were featured at the International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego. In one analysis, use of Perforomist Inhalation Solution, when added to maintenance tiotropium, resulted in improved pulmonary function, dyspnea (shortness of breath) and rescue medication use versus treatment with tiotropium alone. In a second study, patient satisfaction increased in those treated with Perforomist Inhalation Solution twice daily compared with ipratropium/albuterol metered-dose inhaler (MDI) four times daily.
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Understanding Language, Behaviour And Cognition
Neuroimaging is a wide-open theme on the congress agenda. The innovative look at the brain opens not only completely new roads to early diagnosis and therapy involving numerous neurological illnesses. It also helps to better understand numerous activities in the central nervous system. As Professor Filippi notes, "Brain mapping techniques have contributed significantly to the study of the neural basis of behavioural and cognitive function.
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Risk Factors Of Disordered Eating In Overweight Youth Identified By U Of M Study
University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents" risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics, as well as binge eating. Overweight youth with certain socio-environmental, psychological, and behavioral tendencies, such as reading magazine articles about dieting, reporting a lack of family connectedness, placing a high importance on weight, and reporting having participated in unhealthy weight control behaviors, are more likely to suffer from eating disorders.
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Canadians Watch U.S. Reform Effort Closely

American health care reform has become a "hot topic north of the border," the Washington Times reports. "If Mr. Obama succeeds, the U.S. could draw even more Canadian doctors and nurses to the U.S., exacerbating a shortage of medical professionals, said Dr. Brian Day, a Canadian health care critic and former head of the Canadian Medical Association. If Mr. Obama fails, perhaps Canada could open its system to "medical tourism" from the U.S., Dr. Day said." Under the Canadian system, everyone is insured and has "access to basic health care without ever seeing a doctor or hospital bill." But 70% of Canadians also have "some form of supplemental health insurance," in part because of long wait times for tests and treatments under the government plan. For Canadian citizens who become ill in the U.S., it is often cheaper to "ride on a private Lear jet back to Canada" than to be treated in a U.S. hospital. Dr. Robert Ouellet, president of the Canadian Medical Association, says there are real problems in the Canadian system and "suggests that the U.S. look elsewhere for models of universal health care." He suggested that both the U.S. and Canadian governments look to the system in the Netherlands "which provides universal and broader-based health care through a small number of regulated, private health insurers and government funding at a slightly lower cost than in Canada." But others praise the Canadian system, saying it is a more egalitarian way of providing health care. For example, "For Canadian Raymond McEwan, American hospitals are among the best in the world but are focused on making as much money as they can per patient, while in Canada the goal is good medical care for everyone" (Brown, 6/11). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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