For primary care patients feeling well enough to discontinue antidepressant medication, there was a higher rate of depressive relapse among those who discontinued therapy, compared with those who did not, a new study shows. The results of the Antidepressants to Prevent Relapse in Depression (ANTLER) trial also suggest that “many patients can discontinue their antidepressants safely […]
Researchers in Austria have conducted a study showing that individuals previously infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibit a significantly more pronounced antibody response to one dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine than previously uninfected individuals. The team from the Medical University of Vienna says that an astonishing 20- to […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Psychological interventions such as preventive cognitive therapy (PCT) or mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) can be delivered while a patient undergoes antidepressant tapering and may be an alternative to long-term antidepressant use, researchers say. Such interventions could be effective regardless of patient characteristics or the number of previous depressive episodes, suggest […]
Researchers in the UK have developed a protein-based subunit vaccine directed against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that could serve as an alternative to the mRNA-based vaccines currently approved for protecting against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The team – from the University of Liverpool and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge […]
