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SSRIs are associated with a low rate of birth defects according to 2 new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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The most common cause of bilateral vestibulopathy remains ototoxicity from antibiotics, such as gentamicin.
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The time to secondary progression and irreversible disability in childhood-onset MS is slower as compared to adult-onset disease. However, it occurs at a younger age.
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TCD and MRA have a low positive predictive value in diagnosing clinically significant intracranial stenosis, but are useful as screening tests to rule-out significant lesions.
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This is the first ever published phase I clinical trial testing gene therapy in Parkinson's disease( PD).
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A variety of peptide markers in the blood and CSF have been identified by proteomic techniques and should increase our ability to identify, at an early stage, those patients at risk for developing Alzheimer's dementia (AD).
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Statin-treated patients who developed symptoms of myopathy should be treated with at least 100 mg daily of coenzyme Q10 for a minimum of 30 days (assuming CPK values and/or other liver function tests are not abnormal) before discontinuing statin therapy.
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The FDA has approved the first continuous, low dose, oral contraceptive for the prevention of pregnancy.
