Statins May Bring Benefits at Time of Treatment for Heart Attack, Angina
Getting a large dose of a statin did not have an impact on major adverse cardiac events among a broad population of patients slated to undergo percutaneous coronary…
Haloperidol does not prevent delirium or improve survival rates in ICU patients
Large-scale study shows commonly used drug has no preventive effect.
Antidepressants are more effective than placebo at treating acute depression in adults, concludes study
Meta-analysis of 522 trials includes the largest amount of unpublished data to date, and finds that antidepressants are more effective than placebo for short-term treatment of acute depression…
Chicken Pox Vaccine Linked with Shingles at the Vaccination Sight in Some Children
New research in published in Pediatric Dermatology reports several cases of shingles that developed at the original vaccination site in healthy children after they were immunized against chicken…
Acne Linked with Increased Risk of Depression
In an analysis of one of the largest electronic medical records databases in the world, researchers found that patients with acne had a significantly increased risk of developing…