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Original Source: The use of subcutaneous scopolamine as a palliative treatment in Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative, chronic and irreversible condition. Palliative medicine may play an important role in the care of patients with PD to maintain the quality of life. Scopolamine is a non-competitive antagonist at muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, which was used many years ago in the treatment for PD. To the best of our knowledge, there are no previously reported cases of the use of scopolamine for symptom relief at the end of life in patients with PD. The case reported here shows...
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Scopolamine may also be possible treatment for anxiety disorders
However, scopolamine is re-emerging as an antidepressant, with recent studies showing that scopolamine can rapidly improve mood in depressed patients. In addition, in a new study published in Biologic...
Scopolamine/citalopram combo helpful in depression
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding oral scopolamine to citalopram helps patients with moderate to severe major depressive disorder, Iranian researchers say.
Scopolamine can help boost effectiveness of exposure therapy for anxiety disorders
The drug scopolamine has been used to treat a variety of conditions, including nausea and motion sickness. A new study by UCLA life scientists suggests that it may also be useful in treating anxiety d...
Brain activity predicts response to scopolamine
(HealthDay)—The neural response in the visual cortex while processing emotional information can predict which patients with major depressive disorder will respond to scopolamine, according to a stud...
Psychiatric Applications For Scopolamine
Scopolamine is an anticholinergic drug with many uses. For example, it prevents nausea, vomiting, and motion sickness. However, scopolamine is re-emerging as an antidepressant, with recent studies sho...
Hospice visit number affects ability to die at home
(HealthDay) -- Hospice patients with cancer are more likely to be able to die in the setting of their choice if they receive at least one hospice visit per day during the first four days of hospice ca...
Hospice Compassus publicly reveals patient quality data
Hospice Compassus, a Nashville, Tenn.-based company that operates a nationwide network of hospice programs, has become the first hospice provider in the U.S. to publicly reveal patient quality data.
Minorities Less Likely to Use Hospice Care: Study
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Characteristics of Prison Hospice Programs in the United States.
Hospice programs have emerged over the last 40 years as both an effective and humane practice for responding to terminal illnesses in the free society. More recently, hospice has diffused throughout s...
Factors Associated With Favorable Attitudes Toward end of Life Planning.
Planning for end-of-life (EOL) care can result in better patient outcomes and lowered health care costs. We hypothesized that knowledge and experiences with EOL care would influence patients' EOL plan...
The Stresses of Hospice Volunteer Work.
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the interpretation of stress, the appraisal of the stressors, as well as the top stressors experienced by hospice volunteers. Individual semis...
The use of subcutaneous scopolamine as a palliative treatment in Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative, chronic and irreversible condition. Palliative medicine may play an important role in the care of patients with PD to maintain the quality of life. Scopolam...
PURPOSE Patients with cancer represent the largest diagnostic group of hospice users, with 560,000 referred for hospice in 2008. Oncologists rely on hospice teams to provide care for patients who have...
