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Some Antidepressants can Double a Smoker’s Chance Of Quittin

...e (Prozac) are not effective. Although nicotine medications are known to help people quit smoking, not everyone is helped by them or wants to use them. One possible alternative is to use antidepressants. The rationale for this is that some people may smoke to combat depression and that stopping smoking could ...

Study Reviews Seasonal Affective Disorder

... said. Treatment for SAD includes light therapy, medications such as antidepressants, and cognitive behavior therapy. Each option seems to be effective, Lurie said, but none has been proven superior. For some patients, SAD is precipitated by darker days causing a shift in 24-hour hormonal rhythms. The loss o...

Selenium Supplements May Slow Progression of HIV: Report

...n the treatment of HIV patients using conventional medications to achieve and maintain suppression of the disease... in HIV patients who don't adhere closely to their medications regimens. "Selenium could be a very important advance in adjunct therapy," he said. Selenium has ...

Low-Dose Steroids Reduce Joint Damage From Rheumatoid Arthritis

...vidence supports combining the pills with standard medications in the first two years after diagnosis. “Such treatment should be made readily available to patients,” say review authors led by John Kirwan of Liverpool Women’s Hospital in England. Concern exists about the side effects of steroid therapy, howeve...

Inhaled Steroids Proved Effective for Childhood Asthma

...safety of different medicines. Although several medications are available to help children control asthma, clinical trials directly comparing them have not been conducted, reported health portal News Medical. For the first time, researchers in the Childhood Asthma Research and Education Network of the Natio...

ED Drugs - Safe and Effective for Diabetic Men

... diabetes. These drugs are included in a family of medications called phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors. Diabetes is one of the main causes of ED. Experts have estimated that the diabetic men are about three times more likely than other men to deal with ED problems. Dr. Moshe Vardi of the interna...

Potential Threats of Bioterrorism

...While risks and benefits are routinely weighed for medications and other health interventions, health related messages are simply assumed to be harmless. Our findings suggest this is not necessarily so. Therefore all health interventions including warnings about potential threats of bioterrorism should be evalua...

Hypertension Treatment: US Beats Europe

...ere more willing to increase the dose or add other medications when patients did not respond," said lead author, ...ypertension received a change or increase in their medications compared to only 14 to 26 percent of those seen in Europe. Although they found considerable nation...

No Evidence to Support Many Off-label Uses of Atypical Antipsychotics

Some newer antipsychotic medications approved to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disord...evaluating the potential benefits and risks of the medications also found strong evidence that atypical antipsychotics can increase chances of adverse events. Some...

Chinese Herb Shows Promise In Reducing Hypertension

...stage treatment for the disease, but if they fail, medications are prescribed. Many patients with high blood pressure have sought relief from complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). In so doing, many have consumed danshen, a Chinese herb used in Oriental medicine that promotes blood flow and treats cardi...

Why Cold Last Long?

...could free transplant patients from having to take medications to suppress their immune systems. SRI...

Long-Term Narcotics Use for Back Pain May Be Ineffective and Lead to Abuse

... pain commonly request pain medication, and opioid medications are used despite the concerns clinicians have with...ce abuse disorders among patients receiving opioid medications for chronic back pain. The study populations consisted of non-obstetric patients over age 18 with ...

Americans in Dark About Shingles

...n, are often given analgesics along with antiviral medications for treatment. “Antiviral medicines for shingles may help speed up healing and reduce pain in some patients, but if possible, treatment should begin within 72 hours of the onset of symptoms,” according to Tyring. Although the disease affects the sex...

New Software to Help Patients

...came to me when a relative who was taking multiple medications for asthma came to stay with me,' says Dr. W. Kent... which pills she had to take at night. Many of her medications also looked the same and it was easy for her to get one confused with the other.' Medication error...

Hip Fractures Not Caused By Benzodiazepine

..." says Soumerai. Additionally, if benzodiazepine medications are abruptly terminated, as may be the case when people lose coverage of a drug, negative effects can occur, such as withdrawal reactions, seizures, emergency department visits, and hospital admissions. These may offset any potential savings achieved...

Medicine Information Out of Date

...n doctors and patients about commonly used thyroid medications is out of date and could lead to harmful misuse of...rne, reviewed product information (PI) for thyroid medications published in pharmaceuticals guidebooks and endorsed by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). ...

Genetic Tests in the Treatment of Depression Not Yet Useful

...ne-based tests intended to personalize the dose of medications in a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors //(SSRIs) improve patient outcomes or aid in treatment decisions in the clinical setting, according to a new evidence report supported by a collaboration of the Agency for Healthcare ...

Asthma Sufferers Favor Quick Relief Over Long-term Control

...hortness of breath, wheezing, or coughing, // than medications for long-term control, according to the latest New...ercent of sufferers say that they use quick-relief medications to control symptoms of asthma, compared with about 14 percent who rely on longer-term preventive med...

Men and Women React Differently to Heart Disease Diagnosis

...ve found that men and women react// differently to medications for their heart disease. According to the study ...t, men's ailing hearts respond differently to some medications as women do. For example Angiograms, which are usually effective in pinpointing heart problems in m...

Lost That Lovin' Feeling? Don't Blame the Pill

...ntly started taking a medication? There are some medications that are known to interfere with libido, and antid...se III trials, involving hormonal and non-hormonal medications that some day may directly improve sexual drive, noted Schaffir. But currently there is no one pill ...

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