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According to a study conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, health risk behaviors such as smoking and obesity are associated with lower awareness of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), Continue Reading »

This is according to an American study. Its authors recommend screening
for diabetes, arterial hypertension and cardiovascular disease in
patients with COPD.
The study, to be published in the forthcoming issue of the
European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), the scientific publication
of the European Respiratory Society, finds that chronic
obstructive Continue Reading »

More than 7,000 school pupils from across the UK will be taking part in the trial of a new positive thinking programme led by the University of Bath designed to prevent children developing problems with depression.
Around one in ten children have symptoms which place them at high risk of becoming seriously depressed. If left unmanaged, these symptoms could have a significant impact upon Continue Reading »

An audio relaxation program lowered blood pressure more than a Mozart sonata in a group of elderly people with high blood pressure, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 62nd Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.
In a study of 41 elderly participants at three retirement facilities:
Twenty participants listened three times a week for four months to a 12-minute Continue Reading »

The problem with psychotherapy has long been that nearly half the patients quit going after a few sessions. Therapy can’t work if patients stop coming to the therapist’s office.
But a new meta-analysis has found that when patients receive psychotherapy for depression over the phone, most of them continue with the therapy.
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OptumHealth Inc. announced that it is providing a free help line to people in Buy cipro without prescription Texas and other states coping with the emotional consequences of Hurricane Ike. Staffed by experienced master’s-level behavioral health specialists, the free help line offers assistance to callers seeking help in dealing with Continue Reading »

Everyday exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, allergens, and air pollution may be the root of chronic cases of laryngitis, says new research presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO in Chicago, IL.
Laryngitis symptoms include hoarseness of the voice, cough, and chronic clearing of Continue Reading »

The treatment of pancreatic cancer remains a great challenge. The majority of patients with pancreatic cancer developed major depression. Antidepressant treatment has been accepted as one of the new strategies in cancer adjuvant therapy. However, systemic studies on the treatment of depression in patients with cancer have not been well documented.
A research article published in Continue Reading »

GPs prescribe lower volumes of antidepressants in areas with more Black or South Asian people, suggesting possible disparities in the provision of care.
The study, published in the September issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, also reveals that higher volumes of antidepressants are prescribed by general practices in economically Continue Reading »

With close monitoring and a few standard precautions, nearly all children with known or suspected vaccine allergies can be safely immunized, according to a team of vaccine safety experts led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Writing in the September issue of Pediatrics, the Continue Reading »

A new study shows that the innate immune system of humans is capable of killing a fungus linked to airway inflammation, chronic rhinosinusitis and bronchial asthma. Researchers at Mayo Clinic and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) have revealed that eosinophils, a particular type of white blood cell, exert a strong immune response against the environmental fungus Alternaria alternata. The groundbreaking findings, which shed light on some of the early events involved Continue Reading »

Reducing levels of uric acid in blood lowered blood pressure to normal in most teens in a study designed to investigate a possible link between blood pressure and the chemical, a waste product of the body’s normal metabolism, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears Continue Reading »

If there’s one thing that everyone knows about newborn babies, it’s that they don’t sleep through the night, and neither do their parents. But in fact, those first six months of life are crucial to developing the regular sleeping and waking patterns, known as circadian rhythms, that a child will need for a healthy future.
Some children may start life with the sleep odds stacked against them, though, say University of Michigan sleep experts who study the issue. Continue Reading »

Your blood pressure changes from hour to hour, sometimes minute to minute. Standing up from a chair, watching an exciting show, eating a meal, or being stressed-perhaps because of a visit to the doctor-all influence your blood pressure. Blood pressure readings jump around so much that you are more likely to get an accurate reading if you check it at home rather Continue Reading »

Women with depression may be much more likely than men to get relief from a commonly used, inexpensive antidepressant drug, a new national study finds. But many members of both sexes may find that it helps ease their depression symptoms.
The persistence of a gender difference in response to the drug - even after the researchers accounted for many Continue Reading »

Depression and heart disease are the two leading disorders with the strongest contributions to the global burden of disease. Depression and heart disease are also intertwined. In recent years, much attention has been given to depression following heart attack and Continue Reading »

Buy diflucan without prescription More than half of people diagnosed with high blood pressure do not have it under control and many more go undiagnosed, according to research carried out at the University of Warwick.
Professor Franco Cappuccio from Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick led Continue Reading »

generic ultram online buy The teenage years are a time of emotional highs and lows. So how do you distinguish normal teenage mood swings and rebellion from actual depression? The September 2008 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter highlights some ways to tell.
Although depression can occur at any age, it Continue Reading »

This holiday season, many Americans will host gatherings with family and friends. Millions will have guests with allergy or asthma concerns.
One in six Americans - about 50 million people - suffer from some form of allergies or asthma, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Continue Reading »

A new study published in the Annals of Family Medicine suggests that the lives of 8,000 blacks could be saved each year if their blood pressure was controlled to the average level of whites, the AP/Albany Times Union reports. The study, by Kevin Fiscella of the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry and Kathleen Holt of the university’s Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Continue Reading »

Study highlights:
Phone calls and low-cost gifts to African Americans with hypertension increased how frequently they correctly took their medication.
Taking medication consistently and correctly is a major issue in all patient populations and especially African Americans, researchers said.
A patient education program that included self-affirmation Continue Reading »

Metabolex, Inc., a
biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of
proprietary new medicines for the treatment of metabolic diseases,
announced positive results from a Phase 1a clinical trial of MBX-2982. A
summary of the results was presented at the World Congress on Controversies
to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension Continue Reading »

Depression can cause diabetes patients to suffer from higher glucose levels over time compared to those who are not depressed, finds a study of older veterans with the disease.
"Our study shows that depression is a major and important comorbidity in people with type 2 diabetes," said study co-author Leonard Egede, M.D., from the Center for Health Disparities Research at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Through a combination of Continue Reading »

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from the 104 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) study for
naproxcinod was presented yesterday at the American Heart Association
Scientific Continue Reading »

In the first-ever study of its kind, a team led by researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) report in November’s Psychiatric Services journal that Spanish-speaking Hispanics took longer to respond to medication for depression and were less likely to go into remission than English-speaking Hispanics.
Using data from the nation’s Continue Reading »