What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn 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 ...
A new study seems to have answered the question: does smoking cause depression or does depression lead to smoking? ...
If doctors have their way, the dire health warnings on the side of cigarette packs might have to be changed. ...
BAD SCIENCE So many studies, so many flaws A full one-third of American scientists have been found guilty of serious misconduct while undertaking medical research over the last three years. Their misdeeds have included the falsification of data...
SLE is difficult to diagnose and even more difficult to treat. Many of the treatments currently administered to sufferers of SLE are nothing more than a shot in the dark. Since SLE can manifest i ...
Accutane (generic name: isotretinoin; also sold as Rocaccutane) is medicine’s biggest gun in the war on acne. A prescription acne medication derived from vitamin A, it’s been distributed by Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceuticals since its approval in...
The new breed of antidepressants, such as Prozac, is no better at treating depression than older drugs, researchers have found. ...
A new study on cholesterollowering drugs may have solved the riddle of why they're linked with a higher incidence of death by violence: they appear to increase depression. ...
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New evidence suggests that effective treatment of depression may also slow the progress of multiple sclerosis (MS) in these patients. ...
