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CNSystems Medizintechnik AG, a medical device company marketing CNAP™, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the 510(k) notification for CNSystem’s CNAP™ Monitor 500, permitting the sale of this product in the United States.
The CNAP™ Monitor 500 measures non-invasive and continuous blood pressure in real-time and can predict responsiveness to fluid Continue Reading »

Almost 100 percent of American Counseling Association (ACA) members who completed a Capella University survey on military mental health issues have taken action to increase their understanding of post-combat and re-entry issues of returning servicemembers. The results also indicated that ACA survey respondents feel better prepared to help post-combat servicemembers than other mental health professionals who took the survey.
ACA members feel better prepared to help servicemembers Continue Reading »

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that the European Commission has issued marketing authorisation for Volibris® (ambrisentan) for the treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) in patients classified as World Health Organisation (WHO) Functional Class II and III, to improve exercise capacity.1 Efficacy has been shown in idiopathic PAH (IPAH) and in PAH associated with connective tissue disease.1
Ambrisentan is the first Continue Reading »

The PruHealth Vitality Index, a major study published today, reveals a clear gap between Britons’ perceptions of what it means to be healthy and having a real understanding of the impact of lifestyle, diet and fitness levels on current and future health. The Index - which will be repeated on a biannual basis to track the nation’s health trends - provides a comprehensive analysis of general health and Continue Reading »

Yale University researchers report in the journal Nature Genetics that they have discovered that rare genetic variants can be associated with a dramatically lower risk of developing high blood pressure in the general population.
The insight that rare mutations may collectively play a large part in the development of common yet complex diseases such as hypertension Continue Reading »

Foods Matter, the UK’s only magazine for those with food allergies and intolerances, kicks off 2009 with a new website launched to coincide with Food Allergy and Intolerance week on 19th-23rd January. With over 1200 pages covering every aspect of allergy, intolerance and sensitivity (inhaled, contact and ingested) and Continue Reading »

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects as many as one in five of all Americans who survive a harrowing experience like rape, assault, war or terrorism. generic levitra online buy It has emotionally paralyzed survivors of 9/11 and broken up survivors’ families.
There is no broadly accepted treatment that can lower the chance Continue Reading »

The association between tobacco smoke and cancer deaths - beyond lung cancer deaths - has been strengthened by a recent study from a UC Davis researcher, suggesting that increased tobacco control efforts could save more lives than previously estimated.
The epidemiological analysis, published online in BMC Cancer, linked smoking to more than 70 percent of the cancer death burden among Massachusetts men in 2003. This percentage is much Continue Reading »

The risk of suffering depression increases 41% in smokers, in comparison with non-smokers. This was the conclusion of a study undertaken with 8,556 participants by scientists of the University of Navarra, in collaboration with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Harvard School of Public Health (USA), and which demonstrates, in a pioneering way, the Continue Reading »

Fungi can cause a number of life-threatening diseases but they also are becoming increasingly useful to science and manufacturing every year. However, many people, scientists among them, are largely unaware of the roles fungi play in the world around us. Research on fungi and fungal diseases are seriously neglected as a result - a situation with grave negative repercussions for human health, agriculture, and the environment - according Continue Reading »

NicOx S.A.
(Euronext Paris: COX) announced the results of a U.S. phase 2 study,
conducted by its partner Pfizer Inc, which compared the safety and efficacy
of various doses of PF-03187207 to Xalatan(R) (latanoprost) 0.005% in
patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension. The
higher doses of PF-03187207 demonstrated a clinically significant Continue Reading »

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In addition to dealing with the day-to-day aspects of diabetes management that involve blood glucose, nutrition and lifestyle management, men in the United States with diabetes are also grappling with other physical, emotional and sexual health issues according to survey findings Continue Reading »

A new study published in the August 15th issue of Biological
Psychiatry finds that hippocampal neurogenesis (neuron birth
in the hippocampus part of the brain) might be used by the
monoaminergic antidepressants (related to the secretion of monoamine
neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin) to counteract the
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According to a recent study from the University and the University Central Hospital of Helsinki, Finland, no allergy-preventive effect is extended to age 5 years by perinatal supplementation with probiotics in babies at risk for developing allergies; protection is conferred only to Cesarean section babies
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Buy accutane Young children who spend more than two hours glued to the TV every day double their subsequent risk of developing asthma, indicates research published ahead of print in Thorax.
The findings are based on more than 3,000 children whose respiratory health was tracked from birth Continue Reading »

Well-developed community mental-health services are associated with lower suicide rates than are services oriented towards inpatient treatment provision in hospitals. Thus population mental health can be improved by the use of multi-faceted, community-based, specialised mental-health services. These are the conclusions of authors of an Article published Online first and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet, written by Dr Sami Continue Reading »

Senate Democrats on Monday failed to advance legislation (S 3297) that combined 34 bills that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has blocked, CQ Today reports. The package included disease specific research measures, environmental protection legislation and measures aimed at bolstering foreign economies. Language from a measure (S 1375) that would encourage the study and treatment of postpartum depression was included in the Continue Reading »

Unique biochemical crosstalk that enables a fetus to get nutrition and oxygen from its mother’s blood just may cause common postpartum blues, researchers say.
That crosstalk allows the mother’s blood to flow out of the uterine artery and get just a single cell layer away from the fetus’ blood, says Dr. Puttur D. Prasad, biochemist in the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine.
That controlled exchange Continue Reading »

Working hard when fatigued may be admired by many Americans, but it is a virtue that could be harmful to one’s health, according to new research by psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The research supports a theory which suggests that exhausted individuals’ cardiovascular systems are forced to work harder when they attempt to complete tasks, such as those encountered Continue Reading »

Treating mild gestational diabetes reduces a woman’s risk of delivering an excessively large infant and developing pre-eclampsia by 50%, according to a study released Thursday at the meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine in San Diego, USA Today reports. The study, funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and published in Diabetes Care, was led by Ohio State University’s College Continue Reading »

Generic acomplia pills no prescription Babies who receive incubator care after birth are two to three times less likely to suffer depression as adults according to a new study published in the journal Pyschiatry Research. The surprising discovery was made by scientists from the Universit?© de Montr?©al Continue Reading »