There are many ways to treat cancer, and some of them are nearly as frightening as the disease itself. But today, researchers are beginning to unravel some new approaches, including one that comes from seemingly miraculous recoveries in cancer patients who experienced severe fever. And the interesting part is that gold might be just the…
Lithium: The Cinderella Drug
July 17, 2022
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Dr. Walter Brown begins his 2020 book “Lithium, a Doctor, a Drug and a Breakthrough,” by asking, “What do Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and Ernest Hemingway have in common?” The answer is bipolar disorder, previously known as manic-depressive illness. Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness characterized by extreme mood swings, including extreme excitement (mania)…
Psychoactive Drugs Often Linked to Mass Shootings
July 16, 2022
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We do not know if Robert Crimo III, the confessed Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooter, was on psychoactive drugs when he murdered but we do know that police were called to his home for suicidal behavior and that he was remanded to the psychiatric system. Mass shooters in the U.S. tend to be…
University Professor Warns of Risks Caused by Popular Chinese Soup
July 14, 2022
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An Australian study has found that bak kut teh, or pork ribs soup, could cause liver failure if used in conjunction with Western medication. Bak kut teh is a popular Chinese dish that literally translates to meat bone tea. However, there is no tea in the dish, which is made up of pork ribs that…
Highly Prescribed ‘Benign’ Medication Detected in 10 Percent of Overdose Deaths
July 13, 2022
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A commonly prescribed painkiller and anticonvulsant (seizure medication) widely believed to be “benign” has become increasingly associated with overdose deaths in the United States. The medication is gabapentin, commonly marketed as Neurontin, Horizant, and Gralise. Over the years, gabapentin prescribing has steadily increased, with 64 million prescriptions dispensed in 2016, making the drug the 10th…
Is Electroconvulsive Therapy Getting a New Image?
July 13, 2022
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There are few psychiatric therapies that are as controversial as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) which sends pulses of electric currents through the brain to intentionally cause a seizure. Few people would expect it to make a comeback. Intended to treat severe and treatment-resistant depression, severe mania, catatonia, and dementia-associated agitation and aggression, ECT is usually conducted two to…
Researchers Suspect New Variants of Rapidly-Progressing Brain Degenerating Diseases from COVID-19 Vaccines
July 12, 2022
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Things have not been the same since June 2021 for 53-year-old Douglas Howey from Colorado. Around a year after he received the second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the 6 foot 4 and a half inch paraplegic man who once weighed 262 pounds lost over 100 pounds after the sudden onset of amyotrophic lateral…
New Study: Unvaccinated Wrongly Maligned
A large-scale international study of those unvaccinated against COVID-19 finds a pattern of discrimination—and a relatively low hospitalization rate. While the study’s findings are limited by the nature of the selection process, in which unvaccinated people opted in to participate, the new study suggests that those who declined the vaccine may not be the burden…
Antidepressants Overprescribed, Linked to Suicide Risk
July 8, 2022
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Cases of depression and anxiety increased by 25 percent in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic alone by some counts, up from 1 in 20 adults worldwide, and the use of antidepressants has become more common. However, studies have found that antidepressants have unexpected risks. In the 1960s, it was discovered that depression could…
Fixed Packaging of Alzheimer’s Drug May Waste $605 Million a Year for Medicare, Experts Warn
July 6, 2022
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Medicare could potentially waste up to $605 million annually from the packaging of controversial Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab if it is approved for widespread use, according to a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) study. “Given Medicare’s premium increase in 2022 partly due to aducanumab, greater focus on efficient vial packaging could improve the value of…
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