Case Report
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) can be a disfiguring side-effect of antipsychotic medications. In this article the authors review the risk of TD, the potential etiologic mechanisms and present some interesting cases of patients taking atypical antipsychotics who developed TD.
Original Research
Atrial fibrillation (AF) management represents a significant burden on the UK NHS. In this article the authors review data from 825 patients in routine UK clinical practice and describe the non-anticoagulation costs associated with AF management. Understanding these costs better may help inform future health care planning and policy development.
Original Research
In this era of comparative effectiveness research, new, advanced techniques are being investigated by the research community to overcome the limitations of existing data sources. In this article Dr Christopher Blanchette and his co-authors describe the approach of probabilistic data linkage as a means to address this critical issue.
Case Report
In this article, the authors explore basic sleep physiology, the mechanism of action for each class of hypnotic drugs and their clinical application. The potential pharmacologic sleep-inducing mechanisms of future hypnotics are also described and discussed.
Original Research
This prospective, observational, non-interventional study conducted in six non-Western countries concludes that after 12 months of treatment, clinical and functional outcomes were improved in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who initiated and remained on their prescribed pharmacological monotherapy.
