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Drug-Induced Psychosis
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Ahmad.H
Posted
Wed 23 Feb 2011 12:00am
Let's start this article by defining psychosis. Psychosis is a term describing mental disorders causing an individual to lose touch with reality. Psychosis is not a specific diagnosis but it is associated as a feature in many diseases.
Psychosis is seen with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, mood disorder (as mania or depress ...
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Drug-Induced ANCA
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Matt S.
Posted
Thu 29 Jan 2009 12:00am
A subset of patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis have drug-induced ANCA disease. There are a few features of drug-induced ANCA disease which set it apart from "idiopathic" ANCA disease, but overall the clinical symptoms are similar.
Drug-induced ANCA almost always involves the production of anti-MPO antibodies (p-ANCA) as opposed
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Drug-Induced Psychosis
by
Ahmad.H
Posted
Wed 23 Feb 2011 4:37pm
Let's start this article by defining psychosis. Psychosis is a term describing mental disorders causing an individual to lose touch with reality. Psychosis is not a specific diagnosis but it is associated as a feature in many diseases.
Psychosis is seen with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, mood disorder (as mania or depression), ...
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Coping with Lupus: Fact #17 – Drug-induced lupus is reversible!
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Lupus Adventurer
Posted
Thu 17 May 2012 10:00am
Coping with Lupus: Drug-induced lupus is a lupus-like disease caused by taking specific prescription drugs.
Drug-induced lupus is reversible!
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) reports that “drug-induced lupus accounts for about 10 percent of all lupus cases and is caused by high doses of certain medications. The symptoms of dr ...
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Drug Induced Homicide?
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Dr. Richard Keller
Posted
Thu 23 Oct 2008 1:35pm
Is a death from the use of illicit drugs (or the “misuse” of licit drugs) an accident or “drug-induced homicide”?
We discussed that question this morning during case...”?
The State of Illinois has a dug-induced homicide statute that holds that if an individual sells to or gives to an individual drugs (illicit or licit) that result in their death
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Seizure inducing aspartame added to anti-seizure drugs
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Stephen Tvedten
Posted
Sat 04 Dec 2010 8:36am
Seizure inducing aspartame added to anti-seizure drugs
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/07/17/seizure_inducing_aspartame_added_to_antiseizure_drugs.htm
Types... of several of the major anti-seizure drugs:
**The most profound reason for the spectacular increase in seizures is the inclusion of the drug ASPARTAME in with the new larger sized
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Drug-induced hyponatremia
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Matt S.
Posted
Thu 09 Dec 2010 1:55pm
of the causes of drug-induced hyponatremia and provides the rationale for why hyponatremia occurs in the setting of these drugs.
There are a number of broad categories into which most...-induced hyponatremia and is useful in determining the best way to manage low sodium in these patients (after stopping the offending drug, of course).
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Drug-Induced Movement Disorders: ...
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Dr. Rubens D.
Posted
Sun 29 Mar 2009 3:40pm
Drug-Induced Movement Disorders: A Clinical Review
30 mar 2009--The use of dopamine receptor-blocking drugs (DRBD) may result in a variety of acute or tardive involuntary... disorders.
Types of Drug-Induced Movement Disorders (DIMD)
Drug-induced dystonia, a twisting movement or abnormal posture (or a combination thereof) may manifest as acute or tardive
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Drugs That Induce Weight Loss
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Healthy Living ..
Posted
Thu 19 Mar 2009 3:19pm
Drugs that Induce Weight Loss
Recent studies have shown that more people are getting overweight every year. This happens not only to adults but even to kids who have just... the use of weight loss drugs.
In the 1950’s until the late 90’s, doctors prescribed drugs for weight loss. The drug works by increasing the serotonin levels in the brain that makes
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