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This RCT compared acupuncture to venlafaxine for management of hot flashes in breast cancer patients. Both acupuncture and venlafaxine were given for 12 weeks, and then the subjects were followed. Both groups had improvements in their symptoms, but the venlafaxine group had side effects, and the acupuncture group did not.
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Thrombocytopenia is a well-established adverse effect of many conventional drugs. This systematic review found few reports of such adverse effects associated with complementary and alternative medicines, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, foods, and beverages.
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This issue of Primary Care Reports concludes the series on headache disorders. Part I covered headache history, physical examination, diagnostic testing, and differential. Part II addresses common headache diagnoses and their management.
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n this issue: Results from a Phase 3 study of dabigatran, intensive lipid-lowering in CVD, H1N1 vaccine dosing and efficacy, and FDA Actions.
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Eleven heroin users in Northern England and Scotland, as well as a possible twelfth, have been diagnosed with anthrax infection; five have died.
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Nearly half of the world's population live in malaria-endemic geographic regions, and more than one million African children die of malaria each year. Vaccine development continues.
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A longitudinal study of hospitalized WNV patients in Houston was initiated in 2002. A total of 112 patients remain in the cohort.