This month an article was published in the Australian Women’s Weekly on a world wide study on cognitive functioning in people with Down’s Syndrome. We are currently running the study at the Keogh institute. The study aims to see if a medication can increase language ability, learning and memory in people with Down’s Syndrome. The medication was used to treat senile dementia and respiratory problems until the 1980s but was withdrawn from the market due to costs involved in regulation changes. New evidence has now shown that the medication can active non-performing connections of specific receptors in the brain. The […]
Archive for August, 2014
Study Improving Memory and Learning in People with Down Syndrome
By Stuckey • August 19th, 2014What’s in your herbal treatment
By Stuckey • August 12th, 2014
So often people are taking herbal remedies for menopause, for fertility or for erectile dysfunction and don’t know exactly what is in them. In this month’s Australian Family Physician journal there is a cautionary tale. A patient seeking fertility had been prescribed multiple herbal preparations by an Ayurvedic herbal practitioner. She presented with shortness of breath, palpitations and joint pains. She was found to have a serious anaemia and an analysis of the herbal preparations revealed high levels of lead, mercury, arsenic and chromium. She required chelation therapy to “mop up” the heavy metal levels in her body and the […]
Staying Healthy after Prostate Cancer Treatment
By Stuckey • August 5th, 2014
The men’s clinic at the Keogh Institute has expertise in managing health after treatment for prostate cancer. Whether prostate cancer has been managed with surgery or radiotherapy, erectile dysfunction is often a post-treatment problem. The main cause of this is usually damage to the nerve supply to the penis, which can be unavoidable. Early management is better than late management and is often called “penile rehabilitation”. This may consist of oral medications like Viagra, Cialis or Levitra but sometimes requires injection therapy. Prostate cancer surgery or radiotherapy may sometimes be followed by medications which turn off the production of testosterone […]