Changing mindsets about side effects

Changing Mindsets to Enhance Treatment Effectiveness.

Duringthepast fewdecades,significantbiomedicaladvances have increased diagnostic and treatment effectiveness.Recentresearchfrompsychologyprovidesaspecialopportunitytoaddvaluetothetraditionalcornerstone ofmedicine: the patient-clinician relationship. What is it about the conversation between patient and physician that gives it therapeutic value? At the most basic level, physicians and other clin...

Anordrin Eliminates Tamoxifen Side Effects without Changing Its Antitumor Activity

Tamoxifen is administered for estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancers, but it can induce uterine endometrial cancer and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Importantly, ten years of tamoxifen treatment has greater protective effect against ER+ breast cancer than five years of such treatment. Tamoxifen was also approved by the FDA as a chemopreventive agent for those deemed at hig...

Dangerous mindsets: How beliefs about intelligence predict motivational change

Review about gabapentin misuse, interactions, contraindications and side effects

The current work is targeted to review the risks of gabapentin misuse, its potential interactions with other drugs, side effects and use contraindications. This review consists of a total of 99 biographical references (from the year 1983 to 2016). A publication search of PubMed was performed from January 1983 to December 2016. It included animal studies, clinical studies, case studies and revie...

Thinking about Side Effects of Personal Informatics Systems

In this paper we discuss how Personal Informatics systems that aggregate and display data back to users can have unintended side effects. Based on three examples from our prior work, we see that these side effects can be negative and vary from discouraging use of the system to creating tunnel vision where users bias parts of their experience over others. However in some cases these side effects...