Common side effects of Prozac
About Prozac Prozac® (generic name: fluoxetine) is prescribed as a treatment for people suffering from severe and chronic depression. It is one of a group of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that also includes Lexapro (escitalopram), Celexa (citalopram), Paxil (paroxetine) and Zoloft / Lustral (sertraline). Prozac is administered orally once each day. What […]
Understanding Bipolar Disorder Treatments
Bipolar disorder is a complex condition in which people suffer from dramatic shifts in their activity levels, mood, and energy that are so severe that they affect the person’s ability to carry out everyday tasks. Everyone experiences some ups and downs in attitude during their daily lives. For people with bipolar disorder, these swings are […]
Understanding and treating PMADs (perinatal mood and anxiety disorders)
For many years, people have been aware of perinatal mood disorders (PMADs), which refer to mood changes that mothers experience during and after childbirth. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought more attention to this issue. New guidelines now provide advice on understanding and treating PMADs more effectively and even preventing them from occurring […]
Can I Take Calmanervin Everyday?
Throughout the history of humankind, people have been able to turn to a wide variety of natural products derived from plants, bushes, grasses and trees to provide benefits other than pure nutrition or flavors. Because stress is an inevitable part of life, one of the most sought-after remedies for thousands of years has been a […]
What to Do for Migraine in Teens? Symptoms & Treatments
Migraines are a common yet often misunderstood condition that affects people of all ages, including teenagers. For teens, migraines can be especially challenging, interfering with school, extracurricular activities, and social life, all while being chronically underdiagnosed or written off as just a “headache” or “being dramatic” to get out of school for the day. But, unlike […]
Understanding Antidepressants and Erectile Dysfunction
Feeling depressed, unhappy or miserable is something almost everyone experiences occasionally. However, suppose it becomes a chronic, repetitive and debilitating condition that is interfering with a person’s daily life to the extent that they can’t function properly. In that case, doctors will start treating it differently, as clinical depression. You can read some more about […]
The Best Time to Take Prozac
A short introduction to Prozac Prozac is one of the most frequently prescribed medications in the United States, coming in at #4 on the list of antidepressant medications, which are themselves the most frequently prescribed of all meds. Nearly twelve million scripts for Prozac were written in 2021, and it looks like its numbers and […]
Why working from home may be causing you health issues
If you are isolated or working from home, you may be experiencing a whole world of new healthcare challenges. After the battering that we all took during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, some extra problems are coming around because the old pattern of leaving home each workday is being increasingly remodeled, and […]
Innovative Medicine from Israel
In the month of May just past, there were a number of exciting new developments in the area of pharmaceutical research announced or released by the Israeli “Start-up Nation” medical research community. Cancer therapies One of these was the release by Genprex, Inc. a company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and […]
Dealing with Depression and Anxiety
Two of the most prevalent disorders in mental health are depression and anxiety. Statistics show that more than one in five of all people in the USA will suffer from either acute anxiety or clinical depression at some point in their lives. Recognition that these are health conditions and not behavioral issues is important to […]
