Jan 19, 2019
There has been considerable interest in the potential clinical efficacy of ketamine for the management of depression, albeit there is also concern about the durability of benefit and potential adverse effects, especially in the longer term. Read more in excellent...
Jan 17, 2019
In a small prospective clinical trial, researchers randomly assigned people with recurrent C Diff infection to receive fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), applied by colonoscopy or nasojejunal tube after 4–10 days of vancomycin (125 mg 4 times daily, comparing...
Jan 17, 2019
β-Lactam antibiotics are wide used for a reason – they are safe and effective antibiotics. Recent reports of issues with other drugs have served to emphasize this, for example the multiplicity of issues associated with flouroquinolones that has been prominent in...
Jan 11, 2019
A study recently published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that exposure to statins, calcium channel blockers or metformin might lead to improved outcomes for individuals with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The research compared rates...
Jan 11, 2019
Using nested case-control studies, British researches have explored the association between risk of venous thromboembolism and use of different types of hormone replacement therapy. 80 396 women aged 40-79 with a primary diagnosis of venous thromboembolism were...
Jan 8, 2019
Children and adolescents who are treated with antipsychotic medications have multiple, potentially fatal, adverse events: it is unclear if these medications are associated with an increased risk of death. In a recent retrospective cohort study, nearly 190,000 subjects...
