OBJECTIVE To evaluate the Christie, Atkins, Munch-Peterson (CAMP) and hippurate hydrolysis reactions as diagnostic tools for Streptococcus agalactiae carriage in pregnancy. DESIGN Observational, analytical case-control study. SETTING Hospital-based study in a primary and a tertiary health care institution. PATIENTS One hundred and six pregnant and 56 non-pregnant (controls) women were inc...

Introduction Drug-resistant cluster headache (CH) is still an open clinical challenge. Recently, our group observed the clinical efficacy of a ketogenic diet (KD), usually adopted to treat drug-resistant epilepsies, on migraine. Aim Here, we aim to detect the effect of KD in a group of drug-resistant chronic CH (CCH) patients. Materials and methods Eighteen drug-resistant CCH patients under...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Dietary therapies for seizure management date back further than pharmacologic interventions, but many neurologists are not familiar with these treatment options. This introduction to dietary therapies will discuss administration of ketogenic diets, comparisons between diet types, evidence-based efficacy of diet therapies in epilepsy treatment, and management of side effects. T...

The present review examined the evidence base for current popular diets, as listed in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report, on short-term (≤six months) and long-term (≥one year) weight loss outcomes in overweight and obese adults. For the present review, all diets in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Rankings for "Best Weight-Loss Diets", which did not involve specific calorie targets, mea...

Background: The usefulness of the modified Atkins diet (mAD) in refractory epilepsy in adults has been rarely investigated. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of mAD in adult with refractory epilepsy. Methods: In a controlled randomized clinical trial, we enrolled 66 refractory adult epileptic cases from February 2010 to December 2012. The patients were randomly divided into two groups, case gro...

It comes as no surprise that the resource document Professor Richard Bonnie has crafted for the APA Council on Psychiatry and Law to aid in the implementation of Atkins v. Virginia is clearly written and to the point. What was not expected, however, is the document’s significantly limited scope. Because the document is intended as a resource for mental health professionals who may be consulted ...