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Aug 28, 2002 |
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Is Stopping Use of Paxil Dangerous?
Paxil, the world's best-selling antidepressant, has become the target of growing complaints that stopping the drug causes severe side effects ranging from flu-like symptoms to electric-shock-like sensations in the brain that patients have labeled the "zaps." |
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Apr 21, 2003 |
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Depression Linked to Low Folic Acid Levels
Using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers from Tufts University in Boston diagnosed 2,526 participants as having no depression and 301 with major depression. Blood folate levels in both groups were then measured. |
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Sep 08, 2003 |
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UC Riverside Study Indicates Mosquito Coils May Cause Cancer
The mosquito coil made in some Asian countries that people often use to ward off mosquitoes may be releasing cancer-causing smoke, scientists at UC Riverside report in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. |
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Mar 12, 2003 |
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Dietary Factors can Help Prevent Relapse in Depression
Relapse and recurrence are vexing problems in depression. An epidemiological study performed in the US, supported by a Norwegian group of investigators for the first time discloses a link between nutrition and depression vulnerability.
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Oct 31, 2003 |
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MAJOR NEW FINDING ON GENETICS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE ZEROES
Scientists investigating a rare familial form of early-
onset Parkinson's disease have discovered that too much of
a normal form of the alpha-synuclein gene may cause
Parkinson's disease. The finding, reported in the October
31, 2003, issue of "Science", shows that abnormal multiplication of the alpha-synuclein gene can cause the disease. |
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Connecticut Attorney General's Investigation Reveals Flawed Lyme Disease Guideline Process, IDSA Agrees To Reassess Guidelines, Install Independent Arbiter
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that his antitrust investigation has uncovered serious flaws in the Infectious Diseases Society of America's process for writing its 2006 Lyme disease guidelines - and the IDSA has agreed to reassess them with the assistance of an outside arbiter. |
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Feb 27, 2004 |
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Breakthrough cancer treatment Avastin receives first approval in the US
First anti-angiogenesis treatment approved for cancer. |
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Apr 09, 2003 |
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The A-B-Cs of Organic Foods
For a growing number of Americans, the choice seems clear: buy organic. But for many others, the higher price tag or questionable value of organic foods keep them out of the family's grocery cart. |
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Apr 29, 2002 |
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Controversial Cancer Treatment Sparks Row
Bowing to pressure from patients, Horska Hospital in Vrchlabi, east Bohemia, has agreed to perform, from next month, the "devitalisation" treatment, which "suffocates" tumours by tying them up and cutting off the blood supply but leaves them in the body.
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Mar 14, 2002 |
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Findings Conclude Sustained Caffeine Intake Negates The Benefits Of Creatine Supplements
Creatine supplementation has been known to shorten relaxation time during intermittent maximal iosometric muscle contraction. This shortened time, coupled with a creatine loaded muscle, facilitates calcium absorption into the sarcoplasmic reticulum (the endoplasmic reticulum of skeletal and cardiac muscle). However, some believe that caffeine intake enhances calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. |
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