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This Week - April 14, 2003
- Zyprexa linked to dangerous diabetes
- Drug helps autistic children deal with aggression
- Childhood obesity linked to depression
- Some miss out on depression treatment
- Dealing with an eating disorders relapse
- Help for migraine sufferers
- No Sex Drive
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Zyprexa Can Help Schizophrenics, But Can It Be Linked to Diabetes?
Psychosis Drugs Pose Quandary For FDA, Doctors and Patients
For more than four years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been mulling a mystery: Is a new generation of big-selling drugs for severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder causing diabetes and, in rare cases, killing patients?
Drug Helps Autistic Children with Aggression
Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that one of the newer class of anti-psychotic medications is successful and well-tolerated for the treatment of serious behavioral disturbances associated with autism in children
ages 5 to 17 years.
The drug risperidone helps children with aggression and self-injury. Researchers randomly assigned 101 children either risperidone or a placebo for eight weeks. Using a strict definition of improvement, researchers found nearly 70 percent of children on risperidone were much, or very much improved at the end of the study.
Only 12 percent of those in the placebo group experienced the same effect. Researchers say this is the largest positive effect of a medication ever observed in a study of children with autism. The drug was well-tolerated with few neurological side effects. Those side effects included weight gain, fatigue and drooling.
The most recent numbers show as many as 1 in 500 people have autism. It is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life and affects the functioning of the brain.
Autism is four times more prevalent in boys than girls and knows no racial, ethnic, or social boundaries. Family income, lifestyle, and educational levels do not affect the chance of autism's occurrence.
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Childhood Obesity Linked to Depression
Children who are chronically obese may carry the weight of the world on their shoulders -- or at least feel as if they do.
A new study shows that kids who are substantially overweight throughout much of their childhood and adolescence have a higher incidence of depression than those who aren't. Details here.
Some Are Missing Out on Depression Treatment
Older men and blacks and Hispanics with clinical depression report they have lower rates of depression treatment than other people surveyed in a national study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute.
For more on why that is, go here.
Dealing with an Eating Disorder Relapse
Can you really do anything about them?
Although complete recovery from eating disorders is possible, many experience slips and relapses during the recovery process. A slip is a once or twice, perhaps occasional, return to maladaptive behavior. A relapse is a complete and longer-lasting return to the behavior or worse. In a relapse, someone with an eating disorder would be back where she was before she entered recovery.
Read the fourth in our series of columns in the HealthyPlace.com Eating Disorders Community.
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Help for Migraine Sufferers
New research shows people with migraine headaches may not be receiving the most effective treatments. The problem, say researchers, is that most do not see a specialist.
Migraine headaches affect an estimated 30 million people in the United States. Most migraine sufferers are between 30 and 59 years old.
Cormac O’Donovan, M.D., and colleagues from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, reviewed data from 1990 to 1998 to assess the demographics of patients seen with migraines, the types of physicians they saw, and the medications they used to treat their migraines.
The researchers determined that while more patients are seeing physicians for migraines, more than 60 percent of the patients are seen by a primary care physician. A neurologist sees less than 20 percent. Dr. O’Donovan says studies have shown that patients who see a neurologist report more satisfaction and better treatment outcomes than those who saw a primary care physician. In addition, in the primary care setting, migraines are often treated with analgesics and medications that may be habit forming.
“Education of both physicians and the public about new and effective treatments will increase the numbers of those finding relief of their migraines and decrease the number of those using potentially habit-forming medications,” said Dr. O’Donovan.
“While the majority of patients with migraines are still being seen by primary care physicians, these patients may benefit from referral to a specialist, or by programs aimed at educating primary care providers in the use of new treatment options,” says Dr. O’Donovan.
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Bulletin Board:
No Sex Drive!
squeekie123 writes:
"I came on this site because my husband and I have come to the point where we no longer even sleep in the same bed. The problem: I have absolutely zero sex drive."
He doesn't think I've had a drive for the 22 years we've been married but I would disagree. I used to enjoy having sex, I think, but never was able to have an orgasm during the actual sex act.
I think I could just live forever with only the cuddling, the hugs etc. and no sex. I must have something wrong with me..but heck if I know what it is.
Do other women feel this way?
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In closing, think about this:
"Love is a funny thing. It's never appreciated until it's gone. It never has value until someone has it. And just when you decided to give up on it, it finds you again."
From all of us here at HealthyPlace.com, we hope you have a good week.
If you know of anyone who can benefit from this newsletter or the HealthyPlace.com site, I'll hope you'll pass this onto them.
Sincerely,
Deborah
Community Partner Team
HealthyPlace.com - Mental Health Communities
"When you're at HealthyPlace.com, you're never alone."
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