general population surveys often report that only a small proportion of individuals with common mental disorders seek mental health treatment, suggesting a high level of unmet need for mental health care in the community. in recent years, however, the number of adults in industrialized countries who are treated with antidepressant medications has dramatically increased. this paper reviews the p...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic itchy, inflammatory skin disease that is extremely difficult to treat. Effective therapeutic agents are limited in number, and may have long-term toxic side-effects. Frustrated by these realities, many patients stop seeking help from conventional physicians and turn to alternative medical approaches. These can include so-called natural products, herbal produc...

Nanoneurology and nanopsychiatry are today promising, rapidly growing disciplines, and many research efforts have so far been focused in design of nanoparticle-based biosensors and drug delivery systems that would be an addition to conventional diagnostic methods and therapeutic strategies. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are especially important in these research areas since it has been shown that ...

A limited number of medications are typically considered for the management of hepatic encephalopathy occurring as a complication of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement. Multiple alternative compounds aimed at disrupting ammoniagenesis are or will soon be available, though their use tends to be limited by a lack of large data sets and of clinical awareness. In this re...

A majority of pancreatic cancer patients present with pain at the time of diagnosis. Pain management can be challenging in light of the aggressive nature of this cancer. Apart from conventional pharmacotherapy, timely treatment with neurolytic celiac plexus block (NCPB) has been shown to be of benefit. NCPB has demonstrated efficacious pain control in high quality studies with analgesic effects...

Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy presents early in life, even in utero. It is usually refractory to conventional antiepileptic medications and responds only to lifelong pyridoxine supplementation. Seizures are usually generalized tonic clonic. We report a 3-year-old child that was born prematurely at 25 weeks of gestation. He presented with abnormal movements in the second month of life. At 10 mon...

Non-steroidal , anti-i nfl ammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are a class of medications that possess analges ic and anti-pyretic activit ies 1-5. These are used for reducing fever and inflammation in various muscui os keleta di sorders, menstrual cramps , and body pains 612. NSAIDs are perhaps the commonl y used new group of medications avai lable today, whi ch are frequentl y used, domesticall y and in ...

Crohn's disease, a subcategory of inflammatory bowel disease, contributes to significant morbidity, particularly in industrialized nations. It can affect people of any age, but is more commonly diagnosed in adolescence and young adulthood. Inflammation and ulceration occurs primarily in the terminal ileum and colon, although any portion of the intestinal tract can be affected. No etiology has b...

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, in which asthmatic patients present with different clinical phenotypes, variable endotypes, and different response to asthma medicines. Thus, we are faced with an asthma paradox; asthma is diagnosed subjectively by clinical history and treated with biologically active drugs. To solve this paradox, we need objective airway biomarkers to tailor the proper medica...