The rate of satisfactory treatment outcomes in moderate and severe depression is at least as high with a plant extract of St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) as with the synthetic antidepressant paroxetine. This is the finding to emerge from a new research study recently published in advance in the online issue of the renowned British Medical Journal.
The low affinity glutamate NMDA receptor antagonist memantine can slightly reduce deterioration in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease, but the effect in less severely affected people is unknown.
When added to standard care, music therapy helps people with schizophrenia improve their global state, mental state and social functioning.
Doctors should not recommend that post-menopausal women start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) just to prevent cardiovascular events. Also, women at particular risk of blood clots should be discouraged from using HRT to prevent cardiovascular events.
Men who are depressed have higher levels of inflammatory markers associated with coronary heart disease than men who are not, according to a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
French researchers said visual screenings of people with a high-risk of developing oral cancer could prevent 37,000 deaths worldwide annually.
Despite the availability of topical sunscreens, skin cancer is on the rise. A group of chemists at University of Scranton in Pennsylvania says that adding a mixture of antioxidants to sunscreen may help enhance its protection. In animal studies, they found that a mixture of various topical antioxidants was more effective than single antioxidants in preventing the formation of skin tumors induced by ultraviolet light.
Leafy greens, whole grains, nuts and other foods rich in vitamin E may help prevent Parkinson’s disease, according to a new review of eight studies.
A boy aged 8 years was brought to me in almost dying condition. I could notice that when the mother entered my room her fingers were on the pulse of the boy which she was not able to get. The boy was well the day before but had diarrhoea and vomiting in the morning and these completely weakened him.
Mrs. S., aged 46 years came to see me for pain in her left shoulder joint and feared that it might develop into paralysis.