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Medical Xpress / Study compares weight gain across eight common antidepressants
New evidence comparing weight gain under eight different first-line antidepressants finds that bupropion users are 15–20% less likely to gain a clinically significant amount of weight than users of sertraline, the most ...
Medical Xpress / Use of 'benzo' sedatives like Valium, Xanax won't raise dementia risk: Study
Benzodiazepines do not appear to increase dementia risk, but could have subtle long-term effects on brain structure, a new study reports.
Medical Xpress / Study relates use of antipsychotics in dementia with socioeconomic status
A study lead by the Economic Evaluation of Chronic Diseases group of Biogipuzkoa Health Research Institute has revealed the relationship between the use of antipsychotics in dementia and socioeconomic status. This work have ...
Medical Xpress / Medical boards often lenient on doctors overprescribing opioids, research finds
Researchers looked at over 100 cases of misconduct involving the overprescription of opioid drugs in an anonymized US state. The study investigated professional bodies composed predominantly of doctors tasked with assessing ...
Medical Xpress / Research team finds clusters of collapsed alveoli trigger ARDS under artificial ventilation
Artificial ventilation can save lives, but it also puts pressure on lung tissue. If the lungs are pre-damaged, pressurized ventilation can even have undesirable effects. This is especially true of patients with acute respiratory ...
Medical Xpress / New biomarker identified for predicting adverse events of tuberculosis therapy
Borstel researchers are the first to develop a biomarker to predict the occurrence of neuropathic adverse events during therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. The results have now been published in the journal Pathogens ...
Phys.org / A new trajectory: Climate change rapidly impacting Canadian agriculture
The planet is getting warmer and climate change—not surprisingly—impacts the way we feed the world. In Canada, especially, our warming planet alters growing conditions, affects crop yields and shifts the types of crops ...
Phys.org / With X-ray analysis, an asteroid provides a view into our solar system's past
Imagine opening a time capsule, hoping to learn about the ancient past. Except, instead of a box or a chest, it's an asteroid that could provide insights into the very dawn of life on Earth.
Tech Xplore / Researchers' robotic system aims to improve autonomy for people with mobility issues
As an undergraduate engineering student in Delhi, India, Amisha Bhaskar took a field trip to a facility for disabled war veterans and met a man who had lost both hands. When she asked him what technologies could improve his ...
Phys.org / Studying the mystery of Uranus's curiously weak radiation belts
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Uranus almost 50 years ago, it discovered a magnetic mystery. Unlike on most planets, the ice giant's magnetic field is tilted roughly 60° away from its spin axis, creating an asymmetric ...
Medical Xpress / New surgical method shows promising results for cervical cancer treatment
A recently published study has compared a new surgical method with the current standard treatment for primary management of cervical cancer. The paper is published in the journal eClinicalMedicine.
Medical Xpress / Study finds online doctors do not prescribe more antibiotics than other providers
Doctors in virtual online health care contacts are no more likely to prescribe antibiotics for infections than doctors in regular health centers, quite the opposite. This is shown by a new study of doctor's visits in Sörmland ...