NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 01 – Several different mental disorders are commonly found among older people who kill themselves, Swedish investigators report in the
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 01 – Adding to the growing evidence that cutting one's alcohol intake can have health benefits, a team of Japanese
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, & Psychiatry (JNNP Online) 04/03/2002 By Anne MacLennan Habitual non-epileptic seizures can be reliably recorded during short outpatient video electroencephalograph (EEG)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 01 – Diabetics are at increased risk of carpal tunnel syndrome, but the nerve conduction studies, which are normally used
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, & Psychiatry (JNNP Online) 03/28/2002 By Anne MacLennan Acute small fibre sensory neuropathy should possibly be included in the heterogeneous range
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 29 – An enriched, structured home environment is even more important to the cognitive development of children with fragile X
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 29 – Older men with dysthymic disorder have lower levels of testosterone compared with men with major depressive disorder and
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 28 – Cognitive, behavioral, and functional status is likely to be poor in older subjects with low endogenous estradiol (E2)
Movement Disorders 03/29/2002 By Robert Short There is a positive association between smoking and dementia, when seen in the context of Parkinson's Disease. The surprising
PHILADELPHIA, PA — March 27, 2002 — GlaxoSmithKline announced that Paxil CR, a new, controlled-release formulation of a leading anxiolytic-antidepressant, Paxil® (paroxetine hydrochloride), will be
NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Mar 27 – Botulinum toxin A (Botox) offers safe and long-lasting treatment of hemifacial spasm, based on a retrospective 10-year review from
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters Health) Mar 22 – Offspring conceived by assisted reproduction exhibit good parental relationships in early adolescence, based on data presented here at
LONDON (Reuters Health) Mar 25 – Boys who were victims of sexual abuse at a school in the UK did not seem to experience an
DALLAS, TX — March 26, 2002 — Mental stress can trigger a lack of blood flow to the heart and increase the risk of death
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 21 – The muscle-relaxing drug baclofen can rapidly cut severe withdrawal symptoms in alcoholics trying to achieve abstinence, according to
NEW YORK, NY — March 22, 2002 — Forest Laboratories, Inc. announced that clinical study results were presented March 20th at the annual meeting of
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, & Psychiatry (JNNP Online) 03/25/2002 By Harvey McConnell Headaches and hypertension appear to be linked – but the opposite to popular
Physicians should look out for patients with partial epilepsy whose impaired cognition and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are unrelated to their disease history or
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 22 – A single dose of oral eletriptan (Relpax, Pfizer) provides prompt relief of moderate-to-severe acute migraine attacks, based on
NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Mar 19 Major depression refractory to treatment with conventional antidepressants may improve with the omega-3 fatty acid ethyl ester of eicosapentaenoic