Taking medications to treat insomnia and anxiety increases mortality risk by 36 percent, according to a new study.
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September 9, 2010
February 23, 2010
Bridging the self-management gap
Recently I ran an online survey on this blog asking the question ‘Should self management include:’ and then I listed a number of options such as ‘injection therapy’, ‘medications’, ‘intermittent hands-on therapy’, ‘intermittent hands-off therapy’ and so on. My thoughts were that while the term ’self-management’ is bandied ab
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February 18, 2010
Do patients take their medications?
I don’t often write about medications, not because I don’t believe in their use but because that’s not my focus. However, just to put the record straight: medications and medical management of chronic pain has a place in the model of pain management I use. After all, it is the ‘bio-psychosocial’ model, not the psychosocial [...]... Broekmans S, Dobbels F, M
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January 7, 2010
A clarion call for a decade of disorder
This week's Nature has an excellent editorial calling for a greater focus on the science of mental illness and summarising the challenges facing psychology and neuroscience in tackling these complex conditions.It's generally a very well-informed piece, but it does make one widely repeated blunder in the last sentence of this paragraph:Frustratingly, the effectiveness of medications has stalled. N
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July 31, 2009
A Silly Pat On The Head Helps Seniors Remember Daily Medication
Doing something unusual, like knocking on wood or patting yourself on the head, while taking a daily dose of medicine may be an effective strategy to help seniors remember whether they've already taken their daily medications, suggests new research.
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May 6, 2009
Turning Conflict Into Collaboration When Patients And Physicians Disagree
In an era when people are more informed about their care and more assertive with their physicians, an impasse can develop over issues as simple as a patient insisting on unnecessary tests or medications or as complicated as end-of-life care.
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