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To make matters worse, RLS is not discussed in most medical schools, so the condition is commonly overlooked or mistreated; many doctors question the condition's seriousness. Often, says Jones, RLS patients develop their own coping devices, including alcohol abuse and social isolation. Four years ago, Jones started a support...
Currently, there are two drugs approved to treat RLS. One of the drugs, Requip, made $500 million last year for the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, which first marketed the drug in 1997 for Parkinson's disease. Today, the company markets Requip - some say aggressively - as a treatment for RLS. It is...
But Rye, himself an RLS sufferer, argues that more than 2,000 papers have been published in the past 20 years confirming that RLS is a legitimate condition. "About half of those papers occurred before drug companies even spent a penny on it," he says.
Jones says patients who suffer severe forms of RLS need better remedies. Her experience with psychiatric treatment has been frustrating and often futile, and she says she isn't alone. Some of the earliest drugs used to treat RLS actually worsened the symptoms over time - a phenomenon known as "augmentation...
And so doctors are broadening their focus to include the health of not just the child they are treating today but also the adult they could be treating tomorrow. The most extensive study of pediatric-cancer survivors, an ongoing survey by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that began in 1994...