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Light therapy is an alternative treatment for depression associated with seasonal (e.g., winter) exacerbations. Possible side effects include eye strain, headache, insomnia, and hypo-mania.16,17 Also, potentially vulnerable patients, such as those with photosensitivity or a history of skin cancer, should be evaluated carefully prior to therapy.16... 

Thus, sleep deprivation may be an alternative somatic approach that holds promise for the treatment of certain depressive disorders, as well as being an aid in elucidating the biological basis of mood disorders (183). Further preliminary evidence indicates a role for sleep deprivation when used concomitantly or consecutively with antidepressants or with bright light therapy (184). 

Blair GP, Light RW. Treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with corticosteroids. Comparison of daily vs alternate-day therapy. Chest 1984 86(4) 524-8. 

Felbamate. Felbamate is an adjuvant anticonvulsant, containing the warning that its use is associated with a marked increase in the incidence of aplastic anemia and that patients being started on the drug should have liver function tests performed before therapy is initiated. Animal studies have revealed a statistically significant increase in hepatic cell adenomas in high dose studies (18). It is postulated that this cancer was induced by toxic by-products urethane and methyl carbamate. Felbamate is not recommended as first-line therapy and is indicated for those patients who respond inadequately to alternative treatments and whose epilepsy is so severe that a substantial risk of aplastic anemia or liver failure is deemed acceptable in light of the benefits provided by its use. 

Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment of tumors and age-related degeneration. Near-infrared light is used for exposure of tissue because it is... 

There are a number of other books about the machinations that have been going on in the name of cancer therapy correctness. Thus, Robert G. Houston has written Repression and Reform in the Evaluation of Alternative Cancer Therapies. John Heinerman leads off with a dynamic first chapter titled Medical Science—A House Divided Against Itself in his book on The Treatment of Cancer with Herbs, introduced by Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. Dr. Mendelsohn is the controversial but respected physician-author whose pyrotechnics light up Confessions of a Medical Heretic and other books, and some of his more pungent comments are highlighted by Heinerman. 

Miscellaneous applications of phosphates have included use of porphysome nanoparticles as a nontoxic alternative to inorganic nanocrystals for the efficient conversion of light into heat in photothermal therapy, fluorescent phosphates for qualitative and quantitative analysis of organophosphates in water and simultaneous differentiation and quantitative analysis of a methylphosphonate (a nerve gas byproduct) and glyphosate. 

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