Antidepressant withdrawal – the tide is finally turning

Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi and progression to cardiomyopathy: what is the evidence and is the tide finally turning?

C hagas disease, also known as American trypanosomia-sis, has been haunting the American continent for centuries. Evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi has been traced back to mummified tissues from the Chinchorro Indians from the Atacama Desert almost 9000 years ago. 1 However, the clinical description of the disease did not appear in the scientific literature until 1909, when Carlos Chagas brilliantl...

Turning the tide against tuberculosis.

Antidepressant withdrawal

You ask a great question! When stopping certain medications you've been taking for a while, it's common to feel some withdrawal symptoms. Lexapro is a drug in the family of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and is often used to treat anxiety and depression. When folks on these types of medications feel it's time to stop, it's recommended that you speak with your health care provid...

Screening mammography: the turning of the tide?

that many of the legion of criticisms that have been placed at the door of the nbss simply do not hold up to scrutiny. But mud sticks, and so many observers who do not like the results of the nbss point again and again to the same " flaws. " One of Narod's most telling points is that the survival curves for the two arms of the Swedish trial continue to remain separate up to 29 years after the t...

Turning the Tide: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Behaviors

The popularity and influence of reviews, make sites like Yelp ideal targets for malicious behaviors. We present Marco, a novel system that exploits the unique combination of social, spatial and temporal signals gleaned from Yelp, to detect venues whose ratings are impacted by fraudulent reviews. Marco increases the cost and complexity of attacks, by imposing a tradeoff on fraudsters, between th...