medication

The unprescribed medication was administered for more than a year and led to the girl needing a long stay at a children’s hospital, unable to eat or drink and needing 10 blood transfusions.

"Current medications largely target hallucinations, but they don't address symptoms that make it difficult to manage social relationships, work, or school," said first author Belen Blasco, a PhD student at McGill's Integrated Program in Neuroscience.

The ability of these medications to reduce weight, fight diabetes, even decrease the incidence of death from cardiovascular disease, has been well-studied.

Anthracyclines are a class of chemotherapy medications used to treat many types of cancer, including breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma and sarcoma.

New products, medications and treatments will always create a buzz if they've offered signs of success in alleviating those symptoms - to those appropriately prescribed them.