Search results for "Depression"
Newer antidepressants not necessarily safest for older people
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are associated with an increased risk of several severe adverse outcomes in older people compared with older tricyclic antidepressants, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/09/1.htm
9 Aug 2011
Daily citalopram dose shouldn't be higher than 40 mg
The antidepressant citalopram hydrobromide (Celexa) should no longer be used at doses greater than 40 mg/d, according to a new warning from the FDA.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/30/7.htm
30 Aug 2011
Internists healing tsunami's aftereffects
Six months after an earthquake and tsunami, Japan's populace and its clinicians are sizing up the long-term health effects of the physical injuries, the mental trauma and the damage to the nation's health care facilities. Internists describe the aftermath in their own words.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/09/japan.htm
1 Sep 2011
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about bedside vs. scanning and how to take blood pressure.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/09/letters.htm
1 Sep 2011
Alzheimer's markers make management tougher
New guidelines and diagnostic advances are identifying Alzheimer's disease and its precursors much earlier in the course of the disease. The bad news is that, for now at least, these improvements may only create more dilemmas for general internists for the role of biomarkers and communicating with patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/09/alzheimers.htm
1 Sep 2011
Thinking about our thinking as physicians
Cognitive errors have been the bane of making the right diagnosis, and the final installment of the Mindful Medicine column reviews the previous three years of traps and pitfalls that physicians must account for when presented with patients who aren't getting any better, often despite multiple encounters in the health care system.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/10/mindful.htm
1 Oct 2011
SSRI increases bleeding risk after MI
Patients who received a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor after acute myocardial infarction were at higher risk of bleeding, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/10/04/4.htm
4 Oct 2011
HIV comes of age as disease of mid-to-late life
Protease inhibitors revolutionized HIV management, morphing it from a death sentence to a chronic, manageable condition. Medical issues have since grown more complex as doctors consider how HIV interacts with aging, and how aging interacts with these sometimes toxic drugs used to control the virus.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/11/HIV.htm
1 Nov 2011
Suicide rating scale offers insights into intent, actions of patients
A suicide assessment exam that quantifies suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior as distinct domains instead of a continuum of behavior is suitable for clinical use, a new study concluded.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/11/15/4.htm
15 Nov 2011
MKSAP Quiz: 10-month history of increasingly frequent headache
This week's quiz asks readers to evaluate a 38-year-old woman who presents with a 10-month history of increasingly frequent headache.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/12/13/3.htm
13 Dec 2011