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KEEP ON WALKIN’:It’s good for you, especially as you get older

If you're worried about losing your mental abilities as you get older, start walking. It might be all you need to do to ward off dementia, memory loss and the like.

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Jul02

PARKINSON’S: Is dairy the cause?

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Jul02

LOWER DOSES OF PSYCHOSIS DRUG MORE EFFECTIVE

Latest research has found that lower-than-recommended doses of the antipsychotic drug risperidone can actually help patients leave hospital early and prevent them returning again with the same...

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Jul02

PARKINSON’S: A supplement to slow its progress

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Jul02

MENTAL TESTING: Momma, we’re all crazy now

MENTAL TESTING: Momma, we're all crazy now

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Jul02

QUESTION FROM READER:OVERDOSED AND DOCILE

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. ...

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Jul02

Name and shame

What Doctors Don't Tell You

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...

Jul02

NATURAL ANTI-DEPRESSANTS

What Doctors Don't Tell You

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 ...

Jul02

NEWS:ANTIPSYCHOTICS MAY BE TOXIC TO THE HEART

What Doctors Don't Tell You

Data from an international review suggest that a wide range of antipsychotic drugs can result in heart muscle damage. ...

Jul02

NEWS:ANTIPSYCHOTICS: PARALYSIS IS A RISK

What Doctors Don't Tell You

Acute dystonia, a form of muscle paralysis which can leave an individual in any number of sustained abnormal postures, is a common but overlooked side effect of antipsychotic and other drugs, acc ...

Jul02

NEWS:ARICEPT TAKEN TO TASK FOR ALZHEIMER’S CLAIM

What Doctors Don't Tell You

An advertisement for the anti Alzheimer's drug Aricept has been criticised for being misleading. The advertisement, which appeared in professional journals, suggested that the drug could help the ...

Jul02