Lexapro and Zoloft in a Cloud of Dust
Is one antidepressant more effective than another?I confronted this question last September, when I had breakfast with one of psychiatry's leading scholars and administrators. He was complaining about the influence of pharmaceutical houses on physicians. Why, he asked, did doctors prescribe the newer antipsychotics, like Abilify and Zyprexa, when studies showed that older and much cheaper drugs, like Trilafon and Haldol, were just as effective?I told my colleague that I shared his concern about the influence of drug companies, but I thought that clinicians had a tough choice. The side effects of the medications were so different that the new and old medications were finally not identical.All right, the colleague said, but what about antidepressants? Almost all those medications are availab...div id=medwormpbiMedWorm Message:/i/b Please have a look at this new site driven by MedWorm: a href=http://www.thebreastcancerdaily.com/ target=_blankThe Breast Cancer Daily/a/p/div

Efforts to Build Caregiving Industry ‘Inadequate'
To meet the demands of a rapidly ageing population, Japan has loosened its notoriously strict immigration and nursing regulations to accept foreign caregivers. But new evidence indicates deep cracks in those piecemeal gestures. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)