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As more than 2.2 million children with food allergies head back to school in coming weeks, the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) encourages parents, in cooperation with school staff, to take measures to ensure safety.
"Open and frequent communication between parents and school staff is a key ingredient to keeping Continue Reading »

"Grandma’s penicillin" also may help high blood pressure
Chicken soup, that popular home remedy for the common cold sometimes known as "Grandma’s Penicillin," may have a new role alongside medication and other medical measures in fighting high blood pressure, scientists in Japan are reporting. Their research is scheduled for the October 22 issue of ACS’ biweekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
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A team of scientists from across Europe are embarking on new research to develop a treatment for food allergy.
"Food allergy affects around 10 million EU citizens and there is no cure," says Dr Clare Mills of the Institute of Food Research, a lead partner in the Food Allergy Specific Therapy (FAST) research project. "All people with food allergy can do is avoid the foods to which they are allergic. Continue Reading »

Reduction of blood pressure could reduce the risk of dementia for
patients aged 80 years or more, according to research released on July
8, 2008 in The Lancet Neurology.
The Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET) was established to
observe the benefits and risks of hypertension in the very elderly, and
includes several subdivisions in various areas of health and
development. The dementia sub-study Continue Reading »

As uncertainty swirls around Hurricane Gustav and where its path will lead, the American Red Cross encourages those in the potentially affected areas to make preparations now instead of waiting to see where the storm will hit.
Even if a hurricane doesn’t make landfall where you live, it is normal for approaching Continue Reading »

Bipolar disorder is one of the most complex and challenging mental disorder in the spectrum. Bipolar disorder is typically associated with considerable acute and longterm treatment needs and may be associated in the course of illness with times of tremendous social burden for both the individual and family. It is typically referred to as an episodic, yet lifelong and clinically severe mood disorder. The disorder is called Continue Reading »

A pan-European study organised by GA??LEN, the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network, tested more than 2000 patients to ragweed allergy in 10 European countries (1). Results published this week on the Allergy journal website (2) show an unexpected extension of allergic sensitisation to ragweed across Europe (3).
The study indicates that more and more Europeans are likely to suffer from ragweed allergy Continue Reading »

Buy zithromax pills Teenagers are turning to alcohol and cigarettes to relieve school stress. This is the finding of a study presented at The British Psychological Society’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology annual conference.
The study carried out by psychologist Dr Pamela Taylor at Salford Local Authority looked at the stressors and coping strategies of 172 fifteen and sixteen year-olds Continue Reading »

Most people would agree that stress increases your risk for illness and this is particularly true for severe long-term stresses, such as caring for a family member with a chronic medical illness. However, we still have a relatively limited understanding of exactly how stress contributes to the risk for illness. In the August 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry, researchers shed new light Continue Reading »

Patients suffering from major depression are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, but treating these patients with medication can greatly reduce the risk, according to new findings by researchers at the University of Miami Miller School Continue Reading »

The suicide rate in England and Wales fell after the London bombings on 7 July 2005, according to new research published in the January issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
A second significant reduction also coincided with the second wave of terrorist attacks on 21 July, researchers found.
Previous studies have shown that terrorist attacks can have substantial effects Continue Reading »

Women who smoke are at greater risk of developing major depressive disorder, according to new research published in the October issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Researchers from the University of Melbourne studied a group of women in Australia, who had been followed Continue Reading »

A report published in the November 10 issue of Archives of
Internal Medicine finds that people who sleep less than 7.5
hours per day may have a higher future risk of heart disease. Kazuo
Eguchi, M.D., Ph.D. (Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan) and
colleagues also find an increased risk of heart disease among people
who have little sleep combined with overnight elevated blood pressure.
Sleep is becoming a rarer commodity Continue Reading »

More UK psychiatrists witness the dramatic consequences of relapse among the seriously mentally ill than their European colleagues, says a new international survey of psychiatrists released today (3nd September, 2008). This is despite major treatment advances.
According to the findings of the survey (commissioned jointly by the WFMH and Eli Lilly and Company Ltd.), over half of practising UK psychiatrists (54 per cent) have patients go to Continue Reading »

August can be a stressful time for teens and tweens, as they prepare to face another school year - and with it, new social and academic pressures.
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America recently released a survey showing that the number one reason for teenage drug and alcohol abuse is to deal with school-related pressures. Of the 6,500 teens surveyed, 73 percent said that "coping with school stress" Continue Reading »

US researchers reviewing published studies covering up to forty years found that children with high blood pressure
usually continue to have high blood pressure as adults.
The research was the work of senior author Dr Youfa Wang and colleague Dr Xiaoli Chen from the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland and is published Continue Reading »

Bouts of sadness in childhood are normal, but up to a quarter of children will experience depression before they finish high school, and clinical depression in children seems to be on the rise.
Frequent sadness that won’t go away, crying, hopelessness, withdrawal, loss of interest in activities, and changes in sleep, appetite Continue Reading »

Electronic handheld blood pressure devices are automated blood pressure measuring devices used for measuring blood pressure at regular intervals, without causing inconvenience to the individual’s daily routine. generic zithromax online buy Rising healthcare expenditure Continue Reading »

Hay fever sufferers and people with asthma; beware - peak pollen season is now until late November, according to the latest asthma alert issued by the National Asthma Council Australia.
"There is so much hype at the start of spring about pollen-triggered asthma and allergy that many people don’t realise that the real danger period is actually late spring and sometimes Continue Reading »

Cytokinetics, Incorporated (NASDAQ: CYTK) announced today that a Late
Breaking oral presentation and a poster presentation, each relating
to one of two clinical trials for CK-1827452, were presented at the
2008 Annual Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Conference, which
is being held September 21-24, 2008 at the Metro Toronto Convention
Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. These trials, conducted in
stable heart failure patients, are evaluating CK-1827452, a novel Continue Reading »

"Factors Associated With Self-Reported Depression in Arab-, Chaldean-, and African-Americans" (.pdf), Ethnicity & Disease: Researchers led by Hikmet Jamil of Wayne State University and colleagues surveyed 3,543 adults of Arab, Chaldean and African backgrounds living in Detroit, seeking to determine ethnicity-specific prevalence of self-reported depression. Researchers also examined the risk Continue Reading »

Men’s Health News
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have found that inactivating a specific biomarker for aggressive prostate cancer blocks the development of prostate cancer in animal models.
Researchers say the upcoming study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - now available online - may lead to a novel cancer therapy for humans.
"This research has far-reaching implications Continue Reading »

Despite anxiety and stress being
one of today’s most common disorders, it is regularly under diagnosed by
medical professionals.
Most of us experience occasional feelings of anxiety — muscle tension,
headache, nausea, fatigue, or trembling — before Continue Reading »

Autopsies usually point to a cause of death but now a study of brain tissue collected during these procedures, may explain an underlying cause of major depression and suicide. The international research group, led by Dr. Michael O. Poulter of Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario and Dr. Hymie Anisman of the Neuroscience Research Institute Continue Reading »

Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according
to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy
medicine issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.
Researchers from the College of Nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan,
randomly assigned 116 pregnant women Continue Reading »