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Melarsoprol is an arsenic-containing medication used for the treatment of sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis). [1] It is specifically used for second-stage disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense when the central nervous system is involved. [1] For Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, eflornithine or fexinidazole is usually preferred. [1]
North American people associated with ghost sickness include the Navajo and some Muscogee and Plains cultures. In the Muscogee (Creek) culture, it is believed that everyone is a part of an energy called Ibofanga. This energy supposedly results from the flow between mind, body, and spirit. Illness can result from this flow being disrupted.
Suramin is a medication used to treat African sleeping sickness and river blindness. [1] [2] It is the treatment of choice for sleeping sickness without central nervous system involvement. [3] It is given by injection into a vein. [4] Suramin causes a fair number of side effects. [4]
Sanofi's Fexinidazole Winthrop is the first oral treatment for an acute form of sleeping sickness, a lethal parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of infected tsetse flies and found in 36 ...
This is a list of psychiatric medications used by psychiatrists and other physicians to treat mental illness or distress. The list is ordered alphabetically according to the condition or conditions, then by the generic name of each medication. The list is not exhaustive and not all drugs are used regularly in all countries.
Eflornithine, sold under the brand name Vaniqa among others, is a medication used to treat African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) and excessive hair growth on the face in women. [1] [3] [4] Specifically it is used for the second stage of sleeping sickness caused by T. b. gambiense and may be used with nifurtimox.
“Buprenorphine became the first-line treatment,” Auriacombe said, adding that the medication has helped to change public and law enforcement perceptions about addicts. An article in the May issue of the New England Journal of Medicine called for wider U.S. use of medication-assisted therapies for addicts, commonly referred to as MATs.
This belief in hóchxǫ́, translated as "chaos" or "sickness", is the opposite of hózhǫ́ and helps to explain why people, who are intended to be in harmony, perform actions counter to their ideals, thus reinforcing the need for healing practices as means of balance and restoration. Those who practice witchcraft include shape shifters who ...