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How to Quit Antidepressants: Very Slowly, Doctors Say

March 5, 2019March 6, 2019BENEDICT CAREYComments Off on How to Quit Antidepressants: Very Slowly, Doctors Say

Mustering solid evidence, two researchers have denounced the standard psychiatric guidelines for how best to wean patients from depression medications.

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As Venezuela’s Politicians Fight Over Aid, Patients Die Without It

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019ANATOLY KURMANAEV and ISAYEN HERRERAComments Off on As Venezuela’s Politicians Fight Over Aid, Patients Die Without It

The opposition has vowed to deliver food and medication, but the president has refused to allow it. Patients whose lives depend on aid fear the political standoff is obscuring their desperate crisis.

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China Investigates Reports of H.I.V.-Tainted Blood Plasma Treatment

February 6, 2019AMY QINComments Off on China Investigates Reports of H.I.V.-Tainted Blood Plasma Treatment

Authorities in China have ordered an emergency recall of more than 12,000 units of a blood plasma product, potentially the latest scandal to undermine public trust in the nation’s health care system.

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Global Health: A Silver Bullet Against the Brain-Eating Amoeba?

January 14, 2019EMILY BAUMGAERTNERComments Off on Global Health: A Silver Bullet Against the Brain-Eating Amoeba?

Minuscule particles coated with anti-seizure drugs seem to halt microbes that feed on brain tissue.

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Global Health: In Remote Villages, Surprising New Measures Save Children With Malaria

December 10, 2018DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Global Health: In Remote Villages, Surprising New Measures Save Children With Malaria

Malaria quickly kills toddlers. But rapid diagnostic tests, a new suppository drug and bicycle ambulances can buy enough time to get stricken children to hospitals.

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11 things we’d Really like to know: Will We Ever Cure Alzheimer’s?

November 19, 2018PAM BELLUCKComments Off on 11 things we’d Really like to know: Will We Ever Cure Alzheimer’s?

Few drugs have been approved for treatment of this dementia, and none works very well. It has become one of the most intractable problems in medicine.

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Global Health: Rapid Cure Approved for Sleeping Sickness, a Horrific Illness

November 16, 2018November 16, 2018DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Global Health: Rapid Cure Approved for Sleeping Sickness, a Horrific Illness

Parasites transmitted by tsetse flies travel to the brain, causing paranoia, fury and death. Until now, killing them required hospitalization and harsh drugs.

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Iranians Fear Medicine Shortages as U.S. Tightens Sanctions

November 11, 2018November 11, 2018NILO TABRIZYComments Off on Iranians Fear Medicine Shortages as U.S. Tightens Sanctions

Harsh restrictions against doing business with Iran have made it nearly impossible for pharmaceutical companies to continue working in the country.

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In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs. Or Make Their Own.

November 11, 2018SUI-LEE WEEComments Off on In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs. Or Make Their Own.

Despite health insurance, terminally ill patients have to hunt around the world and on the internet for ways to stay alive.

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