Are antidepressants overprescribed?
Antidepressant prescriptions in the UK have increased by 9.6% in 2011, to 46 million prescriptions. Does this reflect overmedicalisation or appropriate treatment? Two experts debate the issue on BMJ website today.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 22, 2013 |
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Exposure to COI policies during residency reduces rate of brand antidepressant prescriptions
Psychiatrists who are exposed to conflict-of-interest (COI) policies during their residency are less likely to prescribe brand-name antidepressants after graduation than those who trained in residency programs without such ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2013 |
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Children and siblings of deployed military more likely to use drugs
Youth with a deployed military parent or sibling use drugs and alcohol at a higher rate than their peers, finds a new study in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Health
Jan 18, 2013 |
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Even small doses of opioids increase risk of road crashes, research finds
Drivers who have taken even a small dose of opioid painkillers have an increased risk of being injured in a car accident, a new study has found.
Medications
Jan 15, 2013 |
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Flu data used to determine vaccine effectiveness
(Medical Xpress)—Armed with data on vaccine effectiveness from five study monitoring sites, including one at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control is renewing the call for everyone ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 14, 2013 |
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Alternative medicine use high amoung children with chronic conditions
Children who regularly see specialists for chronic medical conditions are also using complementary medicine at a high rate, demonstrates recently published research from the University of Alberta and the University of Ottawa.
Pediatrics
Jan 14, 2013 |
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France at odds with European medicines agency over Pill
France insisted Friday on restricting the prescription of newer-generation birth control pills even as Europe's medicines watchdog declared there was no evidence to merit a health warning.
Medications
Jan 11, 2013 |
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Prescription painkillers trail only marijuana in abuse rates, report shows
(HealthDay)—Prescription painkillers are second only to marijuana when it comes to drug abuse, a new government report claims.
Medications
Jan 10, 2013 |
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Rate of non-medical use of RX pain meds 4.6 percent
(HealthDay)—The rate of non-medical use of prescription pain relievers in the past year among individuals aged 12 years and older is estimated at 4.6 percent nationally, with considerable variation between ...
Medications
Jan 10, 2013 |
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FDA: Draft guidance issued on abuse-deterrent opioids
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a draft guidance document to assist the pharmaceutical industry in developing new formulations of opioid drugs with abuse-deterrent properties.
Medications
Jan 10, 2013 |
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When will genomic research translate into clinical care—and at what cost?
Genomic research is widely expected to transform medicine, but progress has been slower than expected. While critics argue that the genomics "promise" has been broken – and that money might be better spent elsewhere—proponents ...
Genetics
Jan 04, 2013 |
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Direct costs for low back pain care in U.K. are substantial
(HealthDay)—The financial burden of caring for patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) in the United Kingdom is twice that of caring for patients without CLBP, according to a study published in the Jan. ...
Health
Jan 03, 2013 |
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Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse
An Associated Press investigation shows that a federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's ...
Medications
Dec 21, 2012 |
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Medicare premiums could rise for many retirees
(AP)—Higher Medicare premiums are probably in store for many seniors if there's a budget deal between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress.
Health
Dec 20, 2012 |
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Physicians should not prescribe ADD drugs to healthy people
Physicians in Canada should consider refusing to prescribe cognitive enhancement medications—also used to treat attention deficit disorder (ADD)—to healthy patients, states an analysis article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical A ...
Medications
Dec 17, 2012 |
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