Treatment-emergent sexual dysfunctions due to antidepressants: A primer on assessment and management strategies.

Antidepressants (ADs) are among the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. Persons with mental illness taking ADs commonly report sexual dysfunction (SD) related to treatment. A brief discussion on the neurobiology of sexual functioning and mechanism of treatment-emergent SD (TESD) was performed.

Implementation and use of a national electronic dashboard to guide COVID-19 clinical management in Fiji.

Problem: From April to September 2021, Fiji experienced a second wave of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) precipitated by the Delta variant of concern, prompting a need to strengthen existing data management of positive COVID-19 cases.

Context: With COVID-19 cases peaking at 1405 a day and many hospital admissions, the need to develop a better way to visualize data became clear.

Action: The Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs collaborated to develop an online clinical dashboard to support better visualization of case management data.

Safety and efficacy of early augmentation with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of drug-free patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic psychiatric disorder that results in significant disability and substantial compromise in the quality of life. Until now, the role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been primarily explored in individuals with treatment-resistant OCD. In this study, we investigated the safety and efficacy of rTMS as an early augmentation strategy in drug-free patients with OCD.