Chemotherapy Is application of some chemical substances in the treatment of disease. In its current use, it refers mainly to cytotoxic drugs worn for the treatment of cancer. The era of the chemotherapy started in the year 1940s with the initial uses of the nitrogen m...

Living here in Arizona, we have about five months of very hot weather. People who visit during that time have a hard time just going from the house to the car. Day after day of triple digit temperatures are absolutely unbearable to them. The opposite was true when we...

A lot of people had issues with what comedian Bill Cosby and what he had to say in reference to some of his sociopolitical views about African-American families and their communities. I commend him for taking a stand and I believe that what he had to say deserves meri...

More than two million people within the United States suffer from schizophrenia. Research and studies conducted suggests that the main cause of the affliction is a chemical imbalance within the brain. Schizophrenia has a variety of symptoms that have a direct effect o...

First, and the most important is antipsychotic medication. It includes the classic antipsychotic drugs and new generation of antipsychotic medication. Chlorpromazine, haloperidol and thioridazine are the classic antipsychotic drugs. They have importend side effects, ...

First, and the most important is antipsychotic medication. It includes the classic antipsychotic drugs and new generation of antipsychotic medication. Chlorpromazine, haloperidol and thioridazine are the classic antipsychotic drugs. They have importend side effects...

Shared psychotic disorder has also been referred to by other names such as psychosis of association, contagious insanity, infectious insanity, double insanity, and communicated insanity. This disorder usually occurs only in long-term relationships in which one person ...

Tokyo, Japan, June 7, 2006 - (JCN) - Otsuka Pharmaceutical announced on June 6 that it will begin shipping Abilify A·bil·i·fy (-bl-f, its proprietary antipsychotic antipsychotic /an·ti·psy·chot·ic/ (-si-kot´ik) effective in the treatment of psychoti...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Bristol-Myers Squibb antipsychotic drug Abilify (aripiprazole) for adolescents aged 13 to 17 diagnosed with schizophrenia, the company said Tuesday. ...

Two recent articles (USA Today. May 2, 2006; Archives of Psychiatry. June 2006) have set off a flurry of discussion about the off-label prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to children. These drugs include Risperdal (risperidone), Zyprexa (olanzapine), Abilify (aripripr...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a warning to physicians and patients that off-label use of certain drugs called "atypical antipsychotics" could be dangerous to older patients with dementia. Included in the advisory are antipsychotics...

Clinical Question: Do atypical antipsychotic medications increase the risk of death for patients with dementia? ...

Shared Psychotic Disorder Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment Shared psychotic disorder has also been referred to by other names such as psychosis of association, contagious insanity, infectious insanity, double insanity, and communicated insanity....