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Pediatric Seizure Study Underway in US to Decide Between Diazepam and Lorazepam

...he two current medications for pediatric seizures, diazepam and lorazepam, is more effective. Childhood sei...ently prescribed to tackle emergency situations - diazepam and lorazepam. But there is no concrete data to show which of the two is more effective. The Natio...

Brain Septum Could Help In reducing Epileptic Seizures

... which sustained seizures occur. The rats received diazepam three hours later to interrupt the seizures, but became chronically epileptic, experiencing 3-5 seizures weekly. The researchers then used electrodes to record individual neurons within the septum of the anesthetized rats to see what happened withi...

Spurious Drugs is a Leading Cause of Casualties Among Drug Users

...in the case of cocaine and heroin, paracetamol and diazepam tablets are crushed and mixed with them to increase the overall volume,' a senior Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) official said. 'Even a small dose of an impure heroin or cocaine can prove fatal,' the official told IANS. 'According to our informa...

Poisoning by fruits similar to blackberries

...lectrocardiogram were normal. He needed repeated diazepam administrations and was managed in the hospital, and recovered after one day of benzodiazepine treatment. In order to evaluate the consequences of C. myrtifolia poisoning, 83 cases of the literature were analyzed: the cases occurred in three countr...

Anti-anxiety treatment found effective in lowering blood pressure

...ix patients were randomized to receive either oral diazepam or sublingual captopril, Blood pressure (BP) and heart rate were recorded hourly for 3 h. Both treatments were found to decrease BP significantly in the study group. The researchers, writing in the September issue of American Journal of Hypertensio...

Fruits and vegetables found to interact with drugs in a dangerous way

...cular with sedatives like triazolam, midazolam and diazepam that could cause excessive sedation in patients with dental problems. As little as 6.0 oz of grapefruit juice may lower the amount of a drug needed to produce the desired effect, resulting in overdose. The components of grapefruit juice believed to ...

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