While we have focused a great deal on the emergence of mood disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period, there is a growing body of literature that indicates that anxiety symptoms are prevalent during this period of time and may also affect pregnancy outcomes. Although many women with panic disorder attempt to discontinue their medications… Read More »
By Laura Kurtzman Almost half of the nearly 10 million patients with active tuberculosis each year could potentially be cured with significantly shorter treatments than current guidelines recommend, a new analysis from UC San Francisco has found. The results suggest targeted therapies could be more effective in treating TB, which killed an estimated 1.3 million… Read More »
More than a month after Mylan and Pfizer reported to Health Canada that there are new issues affecting some EpiPens, the companies and the FDA notified U.S. healthcare providers of the problem which can delay treatment when the pens are needed. Mylan, Pfizer and the FDA Friday reported that some pens and their authorized generic… Read More »
The success of IVF has caused a drop in the number of children being adopted, the boss of the organisation that represents children in care has said. In the last 40 years since the first “test-tube baby” was born, adoptions in England and Wales have fallen by 62%. Meanwhile, IVF success rates for women under… Read More »
(Reuters) – An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted against approving Alkermes Plc’s treatment for depression in patients with an inadequate response to standard antidepressant therapies. The decision comes two days after FDA staff reviewers bit.ly/2QegxPF flagged abuse potential for the opioid-based depression treatment and raised questions on its… Read More »
There are millions of people who are currently suffering from intense, chronic pain. In some cases, there is no real cure. The patient is left to attend to the symptoms. That can be unfortunate and it can easily ruin the individual’s life. There is always a chance that you’ll be able to treat the problem… Read More »
by Smriti Learning the Basics of Astigmatism, Symptoms and It’s Treatment What is Astigmatism? Astigmatism is a condition when the refraction of eye-entering light doesn’t happen equally in all directions. This happens because there are differences in the curvature of the cornea (lens of the eye), two focal points are generated from two different axes… Read More »