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Q-Can you tell me about the drug Melleril, please? My handicapped daughter was put on 150 mg a day which has been reduced to 50 mg twice daily. ...
In a list of the most shameful aspects of modern medicine, psychiatry must come at the top of the heap. This is the discipline that has given us - in the name of ‘first-do-no-harm’ hippocratic medicine - electric shock treatment, the lobotomy...
Q:One of the side effects of prochlorperazine (Stemetil) is parkinsonism. Does the panel know of any instances where patients who have been prescribed Stemetil for a number of years in relatively ...
In order to understand why depression happens, it's necessary to understand a little about how the brain works. Neurotransmitters are natural substances that transmit messages between nerve cells ...
Q:How successful are some of the new therapies for Parkinson's disease? I've just heard that doctors are experimenting with transplanting fetal brain tissue in patients with Parkinson's. What are ...
Data from an international review suggest that a wide range of antipsychotic drugs can result in heart muscle damage. ...
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