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...spermicide nonoxynol-9 (N-9) had long been assumed to have the added benefit of protecting against the transmission of STDs. But, citing studies described in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) this March, the CDC report concludes that the purchase of N-9 coated condoms is inadvisable...
None of the studies cited in the JAMA article found N-9 to protect against HIV, and few found that it reduced rates of chlamydial or igonococcal infection...
Sources: Archives of Surgery; JAMA; Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
...comes word that at least one popular antidepressant doesn't seem to make a heart condition worse and might even help to improve it. Researchers from the U.S., Canada, Italy and Sweden reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that sertraline, better known by the trade name Zoloft, caused no more complications in depressed cardiac patients than did a placebo. Indeed, patients on Zoloft experienced 20% fewer adverse cardiovascular events than those who took the placebo. One other advantage: unlike older antidepressants called tricyclics, Zoloft does not seem to cause irregular heartbeats. But the study...
Plenty of questions still need to be answered. "The study may have been too small to uncover all the drug-to-drug interactions with Zoloft," says Dr. Allan Jaffe, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who wrote an editorial that accompanied the JAMA report. In addition, he says, "the patients did not receive the antidepressant until one month after their heart attack, so it is unclear how safe it is immediately afterwards." One thing is sure: if you have recently had a heart attack and are depressed, you are not alone. At least now there...