Drugs Offer No Benefit in Curbing Aggression, Study Finds
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The drugs most widely used to manage aggressive outbursts in intellectually disabled people are no more effective than placebos for most patients and may be less so.
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Schools' drugs education programmes have hardly any effect on reducing drug use, government advisors say.
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Warnings from federal regulators four years ago that antidepressants were increasing the risk of suicidal behavior among young people led to a precipitous drop in the use of the drugs. Now a new study has found that the drop coincides with an unprecedented increase in the number of suicides among...
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Antipsychotic drugs prescribed to children for bipolar disorders, aggression, and schizophrenia have been linked to a higher risk for type 2 diabetes in a new study presented at a American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting.
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Similar painkilling drugs, including Celebrex, do not share the same risks, two new studies say.
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A drug used to treat breast cancer would not be good for preventing the tumours occurring in the first place, say researchers.
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The number of children taking antidepressants has dropped dramatically since the Food and Drug Administration cautioned that the drugs can provoke suicidal behavior, according to a study.
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Survey finds that patients with symptoms of depression and anxiety who combine drug and talk therapy tended to fare better than those who opt for "mostly drug" or "mostly talk" therapy.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- For years, Americans have popped painkillers like they were candy to treat everything from headaches to arthritis. But new data show America's love affair with the medications may have cooled after the drug Vioxx was pulled from the market over safety concerns.
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Music, pets and aromatherapy should be  used to calm agitated or delusional patients before turning to  drugs that often prove ineffective or have unhealthy side  effects, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Early results from the largest study ever of aggressive measures to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetics has found no sign that intensive treatment increases the risk of death, an international team of researchers said on Wednesday.
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If drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex do prevent cancer, which risk is worse, cancer if you do not take them, or heart attacks if you do? Who decides?
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Atenolol, a drug commonly prescribed to treat hypertension, doesn&#39;t prevent heart attacks or cardiovascular death any better than dummy drugs and is less
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About 1.2 million people age 12 and older used the brain-damaging drug methamphetamine or prescription stimulants for non-medical reasons in 2003, unchanged from the year before, the government's substance abuse prevention agency reported Friday.
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Differences in the brain may increase the chances a person will take drugs, scientists say.
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It was Britain's warning to physicians last year not to treat depression in young people with six antidepressant drugs that set off an international debate and gave impetus to U.S. health authorities who made ...
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Results of a landmark government study are helping answer questions that have long fueled the debate over the use of antidepressants in teenagers. The research finds a popular antidepressant works better than counseling in treating depression in young ...