Dear Dr. Gott: My 23-year-old son was diagnosed with bipolar illness about a year ago. He is taking Depakote and Abilify and seems to be doing rather well. Are there long-term side effects from these medications, and what causes this mental illness, anyway? Dear Reader: Side effects of Abilify include a possibility of tardive dyskinesia, involuntary, repetitive movements of the limbs, trunk and facial muscles. Abilify has been around for fewer than 10 years, so long-term effects are essentially unknown. But the product has so far been shown to have a much lower risk of TD when compared with older antipsychotic drugs.
Full test results raely released to the public, 2C LAKE MEAD, Nev. - On this brisk, glittering morning, a flat- bottomed boat glides across the massive reservoir that provides Las Vegas its drinking water. An ominous rumble growls beneath the craft as its two long, electrified claws extend into the depths.
A combination of two drugs may alleviate sickness in people who are exposed to high levels of radiation, even when given as much as 24 hours later, a Harvard University study suggests. Scientists gave radiation-exposed mice an antibiotic and a synthetic version of the human infection-fighting protein BPI, and 80 percent of the animals lived, according to a study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The level of radioactivity was fatal to about 95 percent of the rodents within 30 days without treatment.
SAN DIMAS - For Red Ribbon Week one school is going beyond the message of "Just Say No" message. For its second consecutive year, Bonita Unified's Lone Hill Middle School on Thursday held a day-long rally to prevent kids from taking drugs or drinking alcohol.
Ray Ruby of the Portland Police Department heard him speak more than a year ago. Jeff Thoreck of Cape Elizabeth High School caught the talk Tuesday.
In 1989, a group of Canadian researchers studying a blood pressure drug were astonished to discover that drinking a glass of grapefruit juice dangerously increased the drug's potency. They were testing the effects of drinking alcohol on a medicine called Plendil. The scientists needed something that would hide the taste of alcohol so that subjects would know only that they were taking the drug and not know whether they were drinking alcohol with it.
Fifteen-year-old Savanna Peterson has lived around drugs her entire life. From parents to siblings to friends, she has watched the devastating effects of drugs, but that's not in the plans for her. Peterson was introduced to drugs at the age of 5 when her father shot up heroin in a grocery store parking lot and passed out.
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