Depression continues to be a challenging condition to treat despite the myriad treatment options available. Primary care providers are increasingly tasked with providing second- and third-line treatments for major depressive disorder, and thus, should be familiar with newer medication therapies that are ...
The FDA has approved esketamine nasal spray as an adjunctive therapy for adults with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), which affects approximately 30% of patients with major depressive disorder. It’s the first regulatory approval of esketamine, the s-enantiomer of ketamine, for any psychiatric ...
David Burns about his new revolutionary approach for depression and anxiety. About Dr. David BurnsDavid D. Burns, M.D., is an Adjunct Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His Feeling Good and Feeling Good Handbook have...
Despite a revolution in depression awareness and treatment in the 1990s and the approval of more than 20 drugs for the condition, many individuals still
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a prescription medicine, which has already been approved for pain management, has been approved in a new medication formulation. The product is called Belbuca and it is a buprenorphine buccal film product (dissolvable medication) that pro...
A new talking therapy for depression has shown encouraging early signs of being more effective and cheaper to deliver than the current best practice of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). A pilot trial from the University of Exeter, published inLancet EClinicalMedicine, has found augmenteddepression...
the companies needed to collaborate to share their data and devise new ways of predicting which treatment is likely to work for which patient (individualized medicine) rather than using the standard trial-and-error for everyone. NEWMEDS is taking on these challenges in Schizophrenia and Depression....
Gene Therapy May Be Powerful New Treatment For Major DepressionIn a report published in the Oct. 20 issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center say animal and human data suggest gene therapy to the brain may be able to treat ...
Sex massage therapy is a new form of prostitution and it becomes one of the commodities in the sex tourism. Sexual service activities carried out under the guise of massage therapies at spa. This condition will disturb security and order. Prostitution is not just a legal issue, but also a ...
Experimenting with new paradigms for medical education and the emergence of a distance learning degree using the internet: teaching evidence-based medicine. This paper is focused on designing and developing a teaching environment associated with an introductory course in evidence-based medicine designed fo...