Pharmaceuticals
Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Redundancies boost mental health problems for those who keep their jobs
Enforced redundancies, also known as “downsizing,” boost mental health problems among those who keep their jobs, reveals research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The researchers base their findings on prescriptions among more than 26,500 municipal workers in Finland, after a period of redundancies, sparked by a national recession. Men who lost or left their jobs were most at risk of a prescription for a psychotropic drug. They were 64% more likely to be given such a prescription than those working in organisations where no job losses had occurred. But men who kept their jobs in downsized organisations were almost 50% more likely to be given a prescription for one of these drugs than were those whose organisations were not downsized.
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Monday, July 03, 2006
Our natural instinct to heal
No more Freud. No more Prozac. French psychiatrist David Servan-Schreiber shows how the body can heal stress, anxiety and depression.
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Monday, June 12, 2006
A Dose Of Genius
According to a study published in February in an international biomedical and psychosocial journal, Drug and Alcohol Dependence noted that more than 7 million Americans used bootleg prescription stimulants, and 1.6 million of those users were of student age. By the time students reach college nowadays, they’re already apt to know about these drugs, obtained with or without a prescription.
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Sunday, April 16, 2006
Comparison of Schizophrenia Drugs Often Favors Firm Funding Study
When psychiatrist John Davis analyzed every publicly available trial funded by the pharmaceutical industry pitting five new antipsychotic drugs against one another, nine in 10 showed that the best drug was the one made by the company funding the study. “On the basis of these contrasting findings in head-to-head trials, it appears that whichever company sponsors the trial produces the better antipsychotic drug,” Davis and others wrote in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Such studies make up the bulk of the evidence that American doctors rely on to prescribe $10 billion worth of antipsychotic medications each year.
Monday, March 27, 2006
… but still sad
Antidepressants aren’t the magic that millions hoped. For the first time, prescriptions fall.
The nation’s heady romance with antidepressant medication appears to be over. First came the warning of a possible link between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and suicidal thoughts among children and adolescents. Then came a drop in sales — 14% last year compared with the year before. Now research has found that a single medicine typically does not effectively treat depression for most people and that those with depression often stop taking the medicines altogether.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Drugs Raise Risk of Suicide - Analysis of Data Adds to Concerns On Antidepressants
Adults taking popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide as patients given sugar pills, according to an analysis released yesterday of hundreds of clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients. The results mirror a recent finding of the Food and Drug Administration that the drugs increase suicidal thoughts and behavior among some children, and offer tangible support to concerns going back 15 years that the mood-lifting pills have a dark side.
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Thursday, February 03, 2005
Kids’ antidepressant use declines
Massive publicity about antidepressants causing suicidal behavior in children is prompting more parents and doctors to hesitate longer or “just say no” to giving kids the pills, suggest new prescription records and interviews with doctors. In the last three months of 2004, the rate of patients under 18 who got antidepressant prescriptions dropped 16% compared with the same time period in 2003.
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Monday, December 16, 2002
A prescription for problems? Society may be overmedicating for normal angst
The ads seem to be everywhere--on TV, in magazines, doctors’ offices, the Internet: Are you feeling tense? Having difficulty sleeping? Scared of criticism? If so, they suggest, the answer could be a pill--an antidepressant, to be exact.