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Markers Pinpoint Crohn's Relapse After Infliximab
MedPage Today
SAN DIEGO -- In patients with Crohn's disease who were in remission following treatment with infliximab (Remicade), sudden elevations of two biomarkers predicted a relapse, a researcher reported here. In patients who relapsed, during 18 months of ...


 
Slip, Lapse, Relapse
PsychCentral.com (blog)
By Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D. Here's an excerpt from Smoke-Free Smoke Break (P. Somov & M. Somova, 2011) on slip/lapse/relapse prevention training. This particular excerpt is tailored to smoking but the idea applies to any drug of choice (and is originally ...

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Doctors Support Treatment, Not Additional Prison Time for Cameron Douglas and ...
Huffington Post
But the federal district court which imposed Mr. Douglas his original 60-month sentence wasn't satisfied with these punishments, and nearly doubled Mr. Douglas' sentence for his drug relapse by adding an additional 54 months to Mr. Douglas' term.
Cameron Douglas Case Brings Calls for Treatment, Not PrisonAlterNet
Treating Addiction as a Disease, not a CrimeAmerican Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)

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Tax increases, spending cuts could cause US recession relapse
Economic Times
WASHINGTON: The economy could relapse into a recession if President Barack Obama and Congress remain at an impasse and allow several big tax increases and spending cuts to take effect at the start of 2013, the Congressional Budget Office reported on ...

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PsychCentral.com (blog)
Top 5 Reasons Women Relapse
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Until their new coping mechanisms are securely in place, it is not unusual for relapse to follow every time a relationship goes wrong. Researchers from the University of Nevada have found that women in particular are at risk of relapse as a result of ...
Do Women Relapse for Different Reasons?TheFix.com
Prescription Drug Overdoses Are #1 Killer -- What To Do?HealthNewsDigest.com

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Drug Delays Relapse in Multiple Myeloma
MedPage Today
For patients with multiple myeloma, lenalidomide (Revlimid) maintenance therapy extended the time before relapse, researchers on three clinical trials reported. In all three studies, lenalidomide maintenance led to about a doubling of the time to ...
Lenalidomide Maintenance Beneficial in Multiple MyelomaMedscape

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U.S. News & World Report
Maintenance Tx Prevents Relapse in Schizophrenia
MedPage Today
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Antipsychotic drugs prevented relapse of psychosis ...
50 Years of Data Confirm Benefit of AntipsychoticsWebMD
Ongoing drug treatment cuts relapse risk in schizophreniaWebMD.Boots.com
Antipsychotic drugs more than halve risk of relapseOnMedica
U.S. News & World Report -MD News (press release)
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