Mental Health Awareness Month: UT Southwestern Medical Center psychiatrists are leading a national clinical trial to find biomarkers that can better predict how people suffering from depression will respond to medications so physicians eventually can personalize treatments. The new trial, launched at UT Southwestern and three other US institutions, is an effort to bring clinical [...]
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Matching Depressed Patients with the Best Antidepressant
May 15th, 2012 
John BuckLupus Awareness Month
May 11th, 2012 John Buck
May is Lupus Awareness Month — a time for everyone to come together to raise awareness of lupus, an unpredictable and sometimes fatal disease, and show support for the estimated 1.5 million Americans and at least five million people worldwide affected by the disease. As part of Lupus Awareness Month activities, World Lupus Day is [...]
CHORI Develops Bar that Helps Restore Optimal Nutritional Balance
May 10th, 2012 John BuckScientists at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute’s (CHORI) Nutrition & Metabolism Center, led by National Medal of Science winner Bruce N. Ames, PhD, have developed a low-calorie fruit-based high fiber vitamin and mineral nutrition bar called the “CHORI-bar” that improves biological indicators (increased HDL-c and glutathione, lowered homocysteine) linked to risk of cardiovascular disease, cognitive [...]
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No Comments »Non-Drug Depression Treatment Rapidly, Significantly Improves Symptoms, Quality of Life
May 10th, 2012 John BuckMental Health Month: New data released at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association show that patients with unipolar, non-psychotic Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with NeuroStar TMS Therapy® achieved significant improvements in both depression symptoms and in quality of life measurements. Overall, 58% of patients achieved a positive response to [...]
Legal Recreational Drugs Can Lead to Seizures, Brain Bleeds
May 10th, 2012 John BuckSynthetic marijuana and a “forgotten pharmaceutical” sold as a recreational stimulant have brought patients to the emergency department with symptoms ranging from psychosis to cerebral hemorrhages, according to two papers published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine. “Patients using ‘spice,’ or synthetic cannabis, looking for a so-called legal high sometimes end up getting sick enough [...]
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