I Know I Can: Feeling Confident About Discussing Cancer May Help Couples\u27 Cancer Management

Managing chronic illness, especially something like cancer, affects more than the diagnosed person. Cancer also affects partners, families, and loved ones. In our study, we were interested in how cancer affects communication patterns between survivors and their partners. We wanted to apply a model that explains chronic illness management in couples to see if we could determine how parts of a relationship, uncertainty about cancer prognosis, and the confidence people have in talking with partners about the cancer affect couples’ ability to manage the disease

Anti-ischemic effects of Amlodipine in patients with stable angina pectoris and myocardial ischemia during daily life

Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring was used to assess the anti- ischemic effects of amlodipine in a subset of 56 patients enrolled in a 14- week withdrawal study; amlodipine therapy resulted in a marked decrease in the overall mean number of ischemic events and the average number of transient ischemic episodes (p \u3c0.005). Amlodipine substantially reduced the number of ischemic events among all patients during the single-blind phase, with further significant reductions recorded among patients who remained on amlodipine during double-blind therapy, but the number of ischemic events increased almost to baseline levels in patients switched to placebo during double-blind therapy (p = 0.01 by analysis of variance)