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Medication Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression
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March 7, 2024
Cut the Red Tape Preventing Medication Access
A 6-year-old boy with asthma visits his doctor, who prescribes a daily inhaler. His grandmother goes to pick it up at the pharmacy and learns that it is not covered by insurance and will cost her $300 a month, so she calls the doctor's office to ask for help. A nurse spends 45 minutes on…
August 12, 2022
Medication & Dietary Supplements for Autism
Img source: pexels.com Vitamins, minerals, and natural supplements have long been administered to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to help with gastrointestinal distress, sleep, and vitamin deficiency, all of which are frequent in children and adults with ASD. Your child’s psychiatrist, teacher, psychologist, or occupational therapist will almost certainly benefit from knowing what supplements…
March 2, 2022
ADHD medication may treat symptoms of genetic movement disorder in children
KCNMA1-linked channelopathy is a rare movement disorder in which patients slump forward with their arms and legs appearing rigid. The symptoms are abnormal, involuntary movements from collapsing episodes. These episodes can occur up to 300 times per day, putting patients at risk of serious injury. Currently, no one standard treatment or set of treatments is…
February 3, 2022
Improving medication treatment leads to dramatic gains in emergency department care for opioid use disorder
Making initiation of buprenorphine easy and timely was associated with a 25 percent increase in the likelihood of its use of treatment in emergency departments. A program designed to increase initiation of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder in the emergency department led to a sixfold increase in its use at three Penn Medicine hospitals,…
December 23, 2021