To care for them, we need to take care of ourselves: A qualitative study on the health of home health aides.

Objective: To understand the perspectives of home health aides (HHAs) toward their own health and health behaviors, and how their job impacts both.

Data Sources And Study Setting: Interviews were conducted with 28 HHAs from 16 unique home care agencies from August 2021 to January 2022. The study was conducted in partnership with the 1199SEIU Training and Employment Fund, a labor-management fund of the largest health care union in the US.

Complementary Therapies for Parkinson's Disease: What's Promoted, Rationale, Potential Risks and Benefits.

Background: Nearly half of all patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) utilize some form of complementary therapy often identified on the Internet and frequently not reported to their physicians. Treating physicians are sometimes unaware of such treatments, including their rationale, mechanisms, potential efficacy, and potential adverse effects.

Methods: Methods for this study included systematic Internet search of products recommended for PD, medical literature review to determine scientific rationale, any evidence of efficacy, and potential risks.

Withdrawal-Emergent Dyskinesias following Varenicline Therapy.

Varenicline (Chantix[R]) is a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial agonist used to aid smoking cessation. Adverse psychiatric and behavioral effects of the drug are recognized and national drug monitoring has included reports of tardive dyskinesia, but no cases have been described in the literature. We now report the first two cases of varenicline-related withdrawal emergent dyskinesias.