Key Points Question What are the trends across adulterated dietary supplements associated with a warning released by the US Food and Drug Administration from 2007 through 2016? Findings In this quality improvement study, analysis of the US Food and Drug Administration warnings from 2007 through 2016 showed that unapproved pharmaceutical ingredients were identified in 776 dietary supplements, […]
Promise of Precision Medicine in Psychiatry Nears Reality BARCELONA, Spain — Innovative approaches and widespread data sharing are essential in psychiatry to improve patient care and deliver on the long-held promise of precision medicine, a leading European expert says. In a plenary lecture delivered here at the 31st European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress, Marion […]
On April 25th 2018 the American Psychiatric Association published the following criticism of genomic testing emphasizing their skepticism towards psychiatrists who are using genetic testing to make informed decisions about diagnosis and treatment. An abstract of their statement reads: Evidence Does Not Support Commercial Rush Of DNA Tests Designed To Inform Decisions […]
On September 26 2018 Scientific American published an article calling out some of the business practices being used by ketamine treatment providers across the country. The article summarized legitimate concerns about the business side of the ketamine while reiterating the promise ketamine shows as a breakthrough treatment for difficult to treat cases of depression. “This […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A 60-hour infusion of brexanolone significantly improves symptoms in women with postpartum depression, according to results from two phase 3 trials. The results “confirm and extend the previous work showing that brexanolone has a rapid onset of action that is unlike anything else currently available,” said Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody from […]
August 2018: MagVenture’s Theta Burst solution is now FDA cleared. For people suffering from severe depression, the road to remission just became a lot shorter: The treatment is known as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and MagVenture has now, as the only company in the US, received FDA clearance for a newer and much faster treatment […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a newer and faster treatment protocol for the MagVita repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy system from MagVenture, the company has announced. The FDA first cleared the MagVitaTMS therapy system in 2015 for treatment of adults with drug-resistant major depressive disorder, as reported by Medscape Medical News. Until now, each treatment […]
This Letter Shows that TBS is FDA Approved Tonica Elektronik A/S Sanne Jessen Medical Advisor Lucernemarken 15 Farum, 3520 Dk Re: K173620 Trade/Device Name: Mag Vita TMS Therapy System w/Theta Burst Stimulation Regulation Number: 21 CFR 882.5805 Regulation Name: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation System Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: OBP Dated: July 10, 2018 […]
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin (CNN) By Ben Tinker and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Updated 8:36 AM ET, Sat August 4, 2018 A few months ago, Alan Ferguson decided he was ready to die — for the third time. In 2014, he attempted suicide twice, and the persistent thoughts of “I need to be dead” were echoing in his brain […]
Significance Identifying biological targets in major depressive disorder (MDD) is a critical step for development of effective mechanism-based medications. The epigenetic agent acetyl-L-carnitine (LAC) has rapid and enduring antidepressant-like effects in LAC-deficient rodents. Here, we found that LAC levels were decreased in patients with MDD versus age- and sex-matched healthy controls in two independent study […]
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