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For many, one of the strangest parts of taking antidepressants is dealing with an influx of wild, vivid dreams. But what is it like to have these dreams, and where do they come from? Stylist takes a closer look. Welcome to Women On Antidepressants, a new series exploring the issues young women face around getting […]
The antidepression drug duloxetine could be beneficial to patients with both depression and cardiovascular disease, according to new studies performed in human blood and in mice. Globally, more than 300 million people have depression, which comes with an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. When a blood vessel is injured, the platelets in our blood […]
TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 — A strawberry-flavored version of the first-line HIV medication dolutegravir will soon be available for infants. The medication will come in a tablet that dissolves in water or juice, according to an announcement associated with World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, The New York Times reported. Each year, about 160,000 children […]
A medication used to treat diabetes is able to reduce hospitalizations and cardiovascular deaths in patients with heart failure by 33 percent, suggests a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The multinational trial demonstrated that sotagliflozin, a diabetes medication, is effective when used as a therapy for patients with worsening heart […]
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My daughter is in her 30s, and she has had epilepsy for years. Lately, her medication hasn’t been effectively preventing seizures. She’s on a new medication, but her health care provider says that there is a chance it won’t work either. What are her options if she cannot find a drug that […]
(HealthDay)—Pharmacologic treatment for type 2 diabetes increased from 2003 to 2016, according to a study published online March 31 in Diabetes Care. Phuc Le, Ph.D., from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and colleagues used data from the 2003 to 2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to identify 6,323 adults who had ever been told […]
Most ovarian cancer starts in fallopian tubes. Then it sloughs from its site of origin and floats around in fluid until finding new sites of attachment. It’s not easy for cancer cells to survive away from their moorings. Observations by ovarian cancer doctors at University of Colorado Cancer Center and elsewhere hint at how they […]
When you ingest a drug—whether over-the-counter Tylenol or medication prescribed by a doctor—your liver is your body’s first responder. And just like other first responders, sometimes the liver gets hurt. Doctors used to make patients with drug-induced liver injury stop taking all their medications until the liver healed, but this could be dangerous. Now, researchers […]