BACKGROUND Valerian root and lemon balm extracts have previously shown efficacy and excellent tolerability in children<12 years suffering from restlessness and insomnia. We now examined whether treatment with a fixed combination of both may also improve concentration, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. METHODS 169 primary school children suffering from hyperactivity and concentration difficulti...

Morphine proved effective when anxiety, restlessness, and laboured breathing associated with high altitude pulmonary cedema did not respond satisfactorily to oxygen therapy (Singh et al., 1965). Pharmacologically, no primary effect of morphine on the pulmonary circuit in man has so far been demonstrated (Daley, Goodwin, and Steiner, '1960). However, more than one explanation exists for the bene...

A trial to compare a hypnotic (triclofos) with a tranquillizer (diazepam) as oral premedication was carried out on 200 children aged 2-9 years undergoing e.n.t. surgery. Atropine was added in all cases. Both drugs produced results as satisfactory as those reported in similar trials. Tridofos was better than diazepam if demeanour in the anaesthetic room, response to induction, and reflex respons...

In the last para of his article he has mentioned about ' Other drugsIn this connection I like to know if Morphia has got any place at any stage during the treatment of cholera. If so, what may be the indications to use it and its contra-indications also ? And if it is to be deprecated, then what are the reasons for it ? I am putting this straight question, because very often in general practice...

In many group-living animals, within-group associations are determined by familiarity, i.e. familiar individuals, independent of genetic relatedness, preferentially associate with each other. The ultimate causes of this behaviour are poorly understood and rigorous documentation of its adaptive significance is scarce. Limited attention theory states that focusing on a given task has interrelated...

"Each surgeon eventually grows into a technique peculiar to himself, and there nre many roads to success." It is i? tins catholic spirit that Dr. Crandon writes his book, every procedure wherein advised has stood the' test of experience. It is largely a reflection of the traditions of the Harvard Medical .School probably the most conservative in a land of restless innovations, but the author sh...

An appreciation of the many roles of "precision-weighting" (upping the gain on select populations of prediction error units) opens the door to better accounts of planning and "offline simulation," makes suggestive contact with large bodies of work on embodied and situated cognition, and offers new perspectives on the "active brain". Combined with the complex affordances of language and culture,...

and commentary also appear in ACP Journal Club. Therapeutics EBM Volume 8 July/August 2003 117 www.evidence-basedmedicine.com