Articles Tagged ‘medication’
Neuroscience & Neurology | By September 05, 2008 | By Jennifer Green, MS | 3 Comments
When “Alternative” Isn’t Anymore - The Ketogenic Diet in Epilepsy
I hang out sometimes on a forum for parents of children with epilepsy. It’s a heartbreaking place. If there are kids whose seizures are controlled by medication and who are doing well — or even making it through the day — in school, their parents are posting somewhere else.
The forum’s purpose is to let parents know about ‘alternative’ treatments for epilepsy. We’re not talking about flower essences, mega doses of vitamins, or Reiki, either. The treatment that parents tell each other about most often is the ketogenic diet — and its cousins, the modified Atkins, low glycemic index, and specific carbohydrate diets. Read more →
- The Dark Side of Antibiotics
- New Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease?
- Can Drug Therapy Prevent Parkinson’s Disease?
- Finding New Ways to Treat Depression
- The Eighth Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. is…
- Prescriptive Authority - Are Pharmacists “Write”?
- Should Patients with Schizophrenia Receive Free Medication?
- Self-Medicating with Over-The-Counter Medicines for Mental Illness
- Osteopathy in the 21st Century
- The Score at Medscape: Meds 9 and the Rest of the Universe 1
- Neuroscience: Psychotherapy’s Executioner?
I have many memories of being sick as a child. I remember lying on the couch watching movies with our rented VCR and putting sympathy stickers given to me by my older sisters in my sticker book. I remember stopping by the meat market to buy a BBQ burger and bag of Cheetos before heading home to my sickbed,... Read more →
In July 2008, results from several clinical trials of novel Alzheimer’s Disease treatments were presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2008) in Chicago. Among these results was an 84-week phase II trial of TauRx’s Rember. Almost immediately,... Read more →
A recent issue of the journal Neurology published two separate case-controlled studies that showed a decreased risk for Parkinson’s disease associated with both cholesterol-lowering medication and blood pressure-lowering medication. A common class of cholesterol-lowering medications, HMG-CoA reductase... Read more →
I think it’s good to think outside the box. Especially when it comes to finding solutions to some pretty major problems. Let’s take depression for example. Starting in May 2007, the FDA started requiring that a warning be posted on antidepressant drugs. The warning was about the increased... Read more →
The eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. is medication error. This statistic may surprise you. Other frightening statistics include the following: * 7,000 deaths occur each year that are directly attributable to medication errors. * Errors occur around 1 in 5 times that medication is administered. *... Read more →
Pharmacists are integral members of the health care team in the US. The profession is composed of highly-educated, well-trained health-care providers. Pharmacists promote themselves as “drug experts” for good reason: the four-years of education required to obtain the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)... Read more →
A recent study from Harvard Medical School found that restrictive drug programs might cause schizophrenia patients to stop taking their meds. Nearly 80% of patients without antipsychotic medication will have a serious recurrence of their illness within a year. The study focused on Medicare beneficiaries... Read more →
Self-diagnosis, -treatment, and -monitoring is widespread due to the expansion of healthcare and the surplus of medical information available via television, radio, magazines, and the internet. While relying on introspection to develop awareness of your body and emotions is an important skill, self-treatment... Read more →
Many people in the United States, and indeed the world, are not aware that there are two types of fully licensed physicians. Allopaths (or M.D.s) have enjoyed being the mainstay of healthcare for hundreds of years along with the luxury of being a 20:1 majority of practicing physicians. Osteopaths (or... Read more →
I’m never surprised at the power big pharma has over the media, especially media directed at physicians. For once, I’d like to talk back. Here’s a perfect opportunity! I’m going to talk back at an article recently posted to MedScape.com — a source of very informative, thoughtful,... Read more →
Within the field of psychology more and more research is based on the functioning of the brain. Even in fields such as social psychology, which traditionally was opposed to looking at the relationship between brain and behavior, is neuroscience growing. More and more psychological disorders are being... Read more →
Sunday, October 12, 2008
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- The Bipolar Trend
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- The Science of Brain Freeze
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Is War A Psychosis?
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Are You Vegetarian? How Do You Get Enough Protein?
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- Integrating Schizophrenia Management
- Health Care and Politics II - The Democrats
- Health Care and Politics I - The Republicans
- Brain Blogging, Fortieth Edition
- China’s Tainted Reputation
- The Silent Epidemic of Health Illiteracy
- Managed Care Kills a Provider’s Reputation
- Writing Away Your Worries
- Sleep Deprivation, Behavior, and the Young
- Preventative Care in Medicine
- Cheating Husbands - What His Genes Tell Us
- Reduced Empathy Following Traumatic Brain Injury
- Craniosacral Therapy – Healing Through Touch
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Ninth Edition
- Are Doctors Super Human?
- Taking Care of Those Who Take Care of Us
- Water - How Much is Too Much?
- Involving Physicians in Military Interrogations
- What Does Your iPod Say About You?
- HIPAA Doesn’t Exist For Doctors
- Is the Primary Care Physician Becoming Extinct?
- Your health is a commodity...
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