May 28, 2006

Discontinuing Antidepressants Can Have Unintended Side Effects

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI’s, are the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants, and following their widespread use, psychiatrists note the prevalence of a related condition called …


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Abuse of prescription drugs fuelled by online recipes

“‘If you just swallow them you will not be getting the full effects.’ Instead, the website tells abusers of a common prescription drug to crush the time-release beads and snort them, or swallow the powder in a …


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May 26, 2006

Sleeping pill wakes brain-injured from coma-like state?

Controversial findings were recently published in the journal Neurorehabilitation suggestung that the insomnia drug zolpidem roused three severely brain-injured patients from the coma-like persistent vegetative …


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Rx ads have some losing sleep

A day after commiserating with a colleague about insomnia, he handed me a white envelope.


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May 25, 2006

Sleeping pill rouses people in a permanent vegetative state

South African researchers have found that a drug commonly used as a sleeping pill can temporarily revive people in a permanent vegetative state to the point where they can have conversations.


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Ambien and PVS

The AJOB Editors Blog discusses the publication of case studies of three patients in a persistent vegetative state who were purportedly transiently aroused by Ambien , a drug typically used to fight insomnia.


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Audio CD Provides Healthful Alternative to Sleeping Pills

Posted by Charles W. Moore on 05/25 at 12:47 AM News Products Comments Tell-a-Friend Press Release Edited By Applelinks Contributing Editor Charles W. Moore For decades, the benefits and risks associated with …


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Family calls for moratorium on care removal, based on new findings

Bob and Mary Schindler Responding to reports of a drug that can temporarily revive people diagnosed in a permanent vegetative state, the foundation run by the family of Terri Schiavo is calling for a moratorium …


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May 24, 2006

Significant Phase II Clinical Results for Gaboxadol (first SEGA sleep …

Gaboxadol demonstrated clear improvement on several clinical end-points as well as enhancement of slow wave sleep in studies in primary insomnia and transient insomnia.


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Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday May 24, @05:24AM from the super-smelling-salts dept.


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