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Have you ever wondered why it seems like the littlest things make people angry? Why a glance at the wrong person or a spilled glass of water can lead to a fist fight or worse? Buy generic diflucan University of Minnesota researcher Vladas Griskevicius has three words to explain why people Continue Reading »

Targacept, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRGT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of drugs known as NNR Therapeutics™, today announced that it has initiated a Phase 2b clinical trial of TC-5214 as an augmentation therapy in subjects with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). TC-5214 is a broad spectrum neuronal nicotinic receptor (NNR) antagonist and represents Continue Reading »

An increasing number of studies have shown a reduced risk of
allergies, hay fever, asthma and eczema in farmers’ children and
adolescents. Until recently it was believed that these protective
effects primarily arise from exposures during the first years of life.
Jeroen Douwes (Massey University, Wellington, Continue Reading »

A pricy drug used to treat a rare but well-known genetic disorder may hold wider promise as a treatment for millions of Americans with potentially lethal enlarged hearts, due mainly to high blood pressure, a study from Johns Hopkins shows.
The common denominator in both phenylketonuria (PKU) and cardiac hypertrophy is the chemical tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4). In PKU, this enzyme Continue Reading »

Buy generic ultram Children who become very upset when their parents fight are more likely to develop psychological problems. But little is known about what happens beyond these behavioral reactions in terms of children’s biological responses. A new study has found that children who are very distressed when their parents fight also have higher levels of cortisol, a Continue Reading »

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Researchers at McGill University, King’s College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. have identified two genetic variants in caucasians that together produce an astounding sevenfold increase the risk of male pattern baldness. Their results will be published Oct. 12 in the journal Nature Genetics.
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Joris de Wit, Ruud F. Toonen, and Matthijs Verhage.
Neurons secrete neuropeptides, neurotrophic factors, guidance molecules, and proteases via secretory dense-core vesicles. Although secretion of such molecules has been extensively studied in neuroendocrine cells, relatively little is known about release of these molecules by neurons. Buy ultram without prescription To remedy this, de Continue Reading »

There has been recent
concern that suicide may be a complication of montelukast (Singulair)
therapy. Montelukast is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved oral
drug that has been prescribed for more than a decade for the treatment of Continue Reading »

CNS Response, Inc.
(OTCBB: CNSO) reported the results of a study by the Center for
Health Economics, Epidemiology, and Science Policy at United
BioSource Corporation, a global pharmacoeconomic research firm and
one of the most experienced firms providing evidence-based review of
innovative healthcare technologies.
The study, entitled "Comparing Levels of Evidence for Treatment of
Treatment-Resistant Depression with Referenced-EEG(R) to Current
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A study conducted by Universit?© de Montr?©al researchers on downstream and upstream water from the Montreal wastewater treatment plant has revealed the presence of chemotherapy products and certain hypertension and cholesterol medications.
Bezafibrate (cholesterol reducing medication), enalapril (hypertension medication), methotrexate and cyclophosphamide (two products used in the treatment Continue Reading »

Up to 150,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found. University of Manchester scientists found that pills used to treat everyday fungal infections greatly improved symptoms of asthma in those patients that had an allergic reaction to one or more fungi.
The study, carried out at four hospitals in northwest Continue Reading »

Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the European Commission has granted marketing authorisation of the new powerful strength of their fixed dose combination antihypertensive drug MicardisPlus® 80/25 in all 27 EU member states. It will be launched in Germany and Denmark in the coming weeks, followed soon by Ireland, the United Kingdom and the rest Continue Reading »

A study published in Journal of Insurance Medicine by members of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center has demonstrated an economic benefit to the diagnosis of celiac disease in a national managed-care population in the United States.
Peter HR Green, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director, Celiac Disease Continue Reading »

Consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) — hailed since their inception in 2000 as a tool to help control costs — are resulting in members forgoing care and discontinuing drugs to treat chronic medical problems, according to two newly published studies.
Under employer-offered CDHPs, members pay up-front deductibles either out-of-pocket or from a dedicated health-care account before insurance coverage Continue Reading »

Alzheimer’s Society comment on new research presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD).
High blood pressure doubles the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and increases the risk of stroke. This study highlights that it is becoming increasingly important to investigate anti-hypertension drugs as a potential treatment for dementia, not just a risk factor.
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A new study from the National Institutes of Health finds that massage therapy may have immediate benefits on pain and mood among patients with advanced cancer. The study appears in the September 16, 2008 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
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A new article indicates that an increased intake in minerals such as potassium, and possibly magnesium and calcium by dietary means may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and decrease blood pressure in people with hypertension. A high intake of these minerals in the diet may also reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke. These findings are published in a supplement appearing Continue Reading »

How children are affected by out-of-home care depends not only on the qualities of their teacher and the classroom, but also on the nature of the children’s relationship with their caregivers. That’s the finding of a new study on the level of the stress hormone cortisol in children in full-day child care.
Cortisol, the primary stress hormone in humans, tends to be at its highest levels in the early morning and gradually declines over the course Continue Reading »

A new analysis of data from the landmark Anglo-Scandinavian
Cardiac Outcomes Trial - Blood Pressure Lowering Arm (ASCOT-BPLA) published
today in Diabetes Care has identified the major predictors of new-onset
diabetes (NOD) in patients with hypertension. In particular, the data show
that hypertensive patients allocated to amlodipine and the ACE Continue Reading »

According to a study of Australian men alcohol improves rather than damages a man’s sexual performance, a finding which is contrary to widely held belief that alcohol consumption can cause erectile dysfunction, or ‘brewer’s droop’.
The study of 1,580 Australian by researchers from Western Australia has found that men who were drinkers had up to 30% fewer problems than ‘teetotallers’.
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Dr. Charles S. Caver, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Miami, will speak on "Two Layers of the Mind: Serotonergic Function, and What Impulsive Aggression and Depression Have in Common" at The University of Alabama’s Harold Basowitz Lecture.
The lecture, sponsored by UA’s psychology department, will be Continue Reading »

European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology will be featuring the article ‘Effect of nightly versus on-demand vardenafil on recovery of erectile function in men following bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy’ by F. Montorsi et al.in the October issue, showing for the first time that vardenafil, a PDE5 Continue Reading »

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Although the link between early screening and prostate cancer survival is well established, men are less likely to go for early screening unless they have a wife or significant other living with them, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
"In terms of motivating people to get screened, there may be benefit in targeting Continue Reading »

A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that daytime functional impairments in older men with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are largely explained by total sleep time rather than OSA severity.
A modest link between OSA severity and daytime sleepiness, measured by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, was no longer statistically significant after controlling for total sleep time. Neither sleep disturbances, measured Continue Reading »