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Cymbalta May Cut Chronic Low Back Pain
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 5 days (www.webmd.com)
Cymbalta, a prescription drug used to treat depression, generalized anxiety disorder, diabetic nerve pain, and fibromyalgia, may ease chronic low back pain.
That's according to a study presented in Madrid at the twelfth congress of the European Federation of the Neurological Sciences.
The study included 236 adults with chronic low back pain who weren't depressed. They took Cymbalta or a placebo drug daily for thirteen weeks.
Average weekly pain scores, measured before taking Cymbalta or the placebo and again at the end of the study, showed greater improvement in the Cymbalta group 
Taxanes May Increase Risk for Significant Psychological Symptoms
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 5 days (www.medscape.com)
Taxane-based chemotherapies are increasingly used for the adjuvant treatment of early and locally advanced breast cancer, but new research suggests that they confer a risk for significant psychologic symptoms. According to a study published in the August 1 issue of Cancer, patients who received taxane-based therapy had significantly worse emotional distress and slower psychologic recovery than those receiving a similar regimen without taxanes.
The researchers also observed high rates of probable clinical depression among patients who received taxane therapy
Psychologists rally to fight climate change
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.newscientist.com)
FEELING blue about climate change? Don't despair. Psychologists say they can switch our mindset from fatalism to "can-do" optimism, making a unique and vital contribution to the fight against global warming.
On 15 August at the American Psychological Association meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, delegates vowed to expose and help overcome the psychological barriers individuals face. "It's so easy to feel overwhelmed and think: 'What can little me do?'" says David Uzzell of the University of Surrey, U.K.
Most people now accept that global warming is real and caused by human activity
FDA Approves First Drug for Treatment of Chorea in Huntington’s Disease
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.fda.gov)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xenazine (tetrabenazine) for the treatment of chorea in people with Huntington’s disease. Chorea is the jerky, involuntary movement that occurs in people with this disease.
Xenazine is a new drug and is the first treatment of any kind approved in the United States for any symptom of Huntington’s disease. Currently there are no other drugs that are FDA-approved to treat chorea.
Serious side effects reported with use of Xenazine include depression and suicidal thoughts and actions
Brain electrodes tackle severe depression
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.nature.com)
Severely depressed patients who do not respond to conventional therapy may be helped by deep brain stimulation (DBS), according to the most-extensive study to date of the experimental procedure
Viagra May Ease Sexual Problems of Women on Antidepressants
kavin submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (news.yahoo.com)
For both men and women, sexual problems are a common side effect of antidepressants. Viagra and similar drugs have long been prescribed to men in this situation. Now a study suggests Viagra may help women as well.
The study looked at ninety-eight premenopausal women with major depression who started to have sexual problems after going on a popular class of antidepressants that includes drugs such as Zoloft and Prozac. The women were randomly assigned to receive either Viagra or a placebo for eight weeks
Three Kinds of Drugs That Can Kill Your Sex Drive
kavin submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.health.com)
Three Kinds of Drugs That Can Kill Your Sex Drive
If you're having sex drive issues, check your medicine cabinet. Several varieties of prescription medication can dampen desire.
Birth control:
Some hormonal birth control methods such as pills and patches can increase women's levels of sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), which drops the amount of testosterone that's floating around freely in the bloodstream
VGF, a New Player in Antidepressant Action?
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (stke.sciencemag.org)
This study links VGF to the antidepressant-like behavioral effects produced by antidepressant drugs and exercise.
VGF (not an acronym), a neuropeptide that has previously been shown to be involved in maintaining organismal energy balance, as well as in mediating hippocampal synaptic plasticity, may be involved in mediating antidepressant responses.
Higher Suicide Risk for Smart Doctors
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (www.time.com)
There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year — a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.
Drug for smokers linked to suicide
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 4 weeks (www.time.com)
Soem doctors have been recommending Chantix to their patients to help them quit smoking. However, Chantix has recently been linked with depression and suicidal behavior.
Antidepressant may treat lazy eye
Sue Wu submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
The drug fluoxetine (Prozac), prescribed to millions of people with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, might soon have an unexpected new medical use — as a treatment for lazy eye syndrome.
Protein discovery could lead to depression test
DanyC submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (www.reuters.com)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered that a single protein in the brain changes its location within a cell membrane when an antidepressant is working, and this change could be identified with a simple blood test. But people with depression now must wait weeks before they learn whether the drug they are taking will bring relief.
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The signaling protein known as Gs alpha -- which is important for the action of neurotransmitters or message-carrying chemicals such as serotonin.
Effectiveness of antidepressants has been exaggerated
DanyC submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
Irving Kirsch's team at the University of Hull, UK, reviewed nearly 50 studies of the efficacy of four widely prescribed antidepressants. In a paper published in PLoS Medicine last week, the researchers conclude that the drugs work only in the most severe cases.
Maybe, this finding is most useful as a challenge to the drug companies. What the patients really need is change in their lives, real effectiveness.
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 2 weeks (abcnews.go.com)
A belief in the healing power of magnets has been around since ancient Greece, leading to a $5 billion a year worldwide industry that supplies millions of believers with magnets for everything from arthritis to cancer to depression. Researchers at the University of Virginia have found some evidence that the use of small magnetic fields may in fact affect blood flow.
Growing Up to Prozac: Drug makes new neurons mature faster
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 3 weeks (www.sciencenews.org)
Peter Pan won't be pleased to hear the latest theory about how Prozac works. A new study shows that the antidepressant stimulates growth of neurons in the hippocampus and speeds the young brain cells toward maturity. The maturation process could be the mechanism by which the drug relieves depression.
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