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June 4, 2010

Risk of Recurrent Breast Cancer With SSRI/Tamoxifen Interaction

The risk of breast cancer recurrence related to some SSRI antidepressants interacting with and reducing the effectiveness of tamoxifen was quantified in 2 epidemiological studies published in February.

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February 24, 2010

Why Studies Performed In Different Countries Yield Different Rates Of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?

A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides new insights in the different rates of post-traumatic stress disorder that are found in studies performed in different countries. Recent epidemiological studies using consecutive patients have reported inconsistent findings in the prevalence of accident-related PTSD in developed countries...

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June 4, 2009

Parkinson’s Disease Associated With Pesticide Exposure In French Farm Workers

The cause of Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most frequent neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease, is unknown, but in most cases it is believed to involve a combination of environmental risk factors and genetic susceptibility. Laboratory studies in rats have shown that injecting the insecticide rotenone leads to an animal model of PD and several epidemiological studies have show

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