Month: September 2021

Interestingly, the study did find a small percentage of people were able to successfully stop their antidepressant without having another depressive episode. "Some people can stop their medication without relapse, although at present, we cannot identify who those people are," said coauthor Gemma Lewis, a professor of psychiatric epidemiology at University College London. "I think we can be very cheered by the findings," said coauthor Dr. Tony Kendrick, a professor of primary care at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. "This is really good evidence to support a patient's own decisions -- in discussion with their doctor or other prescriber -- about whether they should continue antidepressants or not," Kendrick said. "Both courses of action are reasonable." Antidepressants ...

Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour said she is about to undergo her final chemotherapy session months after revealing her ovarian cancer diagnosis and called on women to “pay attention to their bodies." Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor, said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in honor of September’s Ovarian Cancer Awareness month that her final chemo session was scheduled for Thursday following 18 weeks of treatment.  The journalist told host Robin Roberts, who herself underwent surgery and treatment after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, that the prolonged treatment process “grueling, fatiguing, tiring and emotionally wearing,” as well as physically exhausting.  Amanpour first shared news of her diagnosis in June, telling her show’s viewer...

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Check out what's clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Molnupiravir, an experimental oral COVID-19 antiviral drug, could potentially be effective against all known variants of the coronavirus, according to its producer, a drug company called Merck.  Molnupiravir works by targeting the enzyme needed for the virus to make copies of itself and introduces errors into the virus’s genetic code. This curtains the patient’s viral load, shortening the duration of the illness and mitigating serious symptoms. COVID DELTA VARIANT REVERSING RECOVERY IN RESTAURANT INDUSTRY, SURVEY SAYS According to Timothy Sheahan, a virologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, who helped pioneer these therapies, "Oral antivirals have the potential to not only curtail the duration of one’s C...