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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted tentative approval for the Company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market its generic version of Novartis’ hypertension treatment Diovan® (Valsartan) Tablets, 40 mg, 80 mg, 160 mg and 320 mg. Final approval of this product is expected Continue Reading »

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Just under five per cent of the men who took part in the prostate cancer element of the USA’s largest ever cancer screening trial were diagnosed with the disease and the majority of those were picked up by screening programmes, according to research published in the December issue of the urology journal BJU International .
A total of 154,934 men and women aged from 55 to 74 took part in the multi-centre Prostate, Continue Reading »

RUB researchers tested grass pollen tablet Study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Taking one grass pollen tablet every day can alleviate hay fever and asthma in children. These are the results of a study by medical experts in the team led by Prof. Dr. Albrecht Bufe (Experimental Pneumology) at the Ruhr-Universit?¤t Bochum. The study was carried out Continue Reading »

Scientists know that different normal and diseased tissues behave differently. But a method that tells them just how they do so may one day give medical science a new way to fight obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other dangerous disorders of the metabolism.
Until now, scientists had to rely on basic observations at the cellular level, since they Continue Reading »

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Commenting on the Annual Health check, Lisa Rodrigues, Chair of the Mental Health Network of the NHS Confederation, and Chief Executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said:
"This is the second year running that NHS mental health trusts have been rated as one of the best performing parts of the NHS, the strong performance in the areas of Continue Reading »

The American Red Cross today announced a new course, Coping With Deployments: Psychological First Aid for Military Families, is now available. The course, offered free of charge, is open to military family members of active duty, Reserve and National Guard forces, as well as veterans and their families. Presently, the course is offered in sixteen states (Ala., Ark., Calif., Colo., Fla., Hawaii, Ind., Minn., Neb., Continue Reading »

Two new national health studies show that more adults in the US are living with hypertension than ever before; while this is bad news in that the
proportion of the population with high blood pressure has gone up, it is also good news in that more people are living with rather than dying from high blood
pressure. The investigators also concluded that obesity is the main reason so Continue Reading »

Buy cipro pills This week, as the world’s attention turns to issues of good mental health for Friday’s World Mental Health Day, BBC Learning’s own mental health and wellbeing campaign - BBC Headroom - celebrates with the transmission of Alastair Campbell’s moving film, Cracking Up, some new faces at bbc.co.uk/headroom and a dedicated Continue Reading »

A new study () published in Bioscience Hypotheses (), a recently launched Elsevier journal, proposes that some people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease experience a reduction in their high blood pressure because of cognitive decline.
Publications relating to dementia and blood pressure have been reviewed by the paper’s Continue Reading »

Men’s Health News
Buy soma pills A major study on whether vitamin E and selenium prevent prostate cancer has been stopped because the supplements are not effective and also because there is a suspicion of a risk.
The study, the ‘SELECT’ trial, conducted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has been stopped Continue Reading »

There’s no question that Viagra® and drugs like it provide the best option for men with mild to moderate cases of erectile dysfunction (ED). It’s been around for 10 years now and oral medications work well for the not-so-impaired. Peter J. Muench M.D., a urologist with Delaware Urologic Associates (DUA) in Newark, Delaware says improvements in penile implants make them the way to go for anyone with Continue Reading »

Breast cancer patients who have a poor relationship with their spouse may face a more difficult road to recovery than would other women, according to a new study.
Researchers found that, over five years, patients in distressed marriages had higher levels of stress, less physical activity, slower recovery and more symptoms and signs of illness than did similar patients who reported good marriages.
"The quality of the marital relationship may not Continue Reading »

Recent media coverage has questioned the prescription and safety of a class of antidepressants called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) in children and adolescents.
"General practitioners are a critical part of the mental health care system in Australia and are often the first point of contact in the health system for people with mental health concerns. GPs are ideally placed to conduct Continue Reading »

A Phase III clinical trial at New York University is investigating the safety and efficacy of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for the treatment of locally recurrent prostate cancer following failed external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) using the Sonablate(R) 500.
Dr. Herbert Lepor, Chairman of Urology at NYU School of Medicine and medical monitor for the trial said, "HIFU Continue Reading »

Women who have higher levels of a hormone produced by the placenta midway through pregnancy appear more likely to develop postpartum depression, a study authored by a UC Irvine researcher finds.
The discovery could help identify and treat women at risk for postpartum depression long before the onset of symptoms.
Ilona Yim, psychology and social behavior Continue Reading »

Contributing to the diversity of plant species (avoiding the massive use of an only or a few species); using examples of native flora preferably instead of exotic species and promoting the participation of experts in the design of landscaped areas are some of the recommendations town councils should consider when designing green spaces with a low-allergy impact. That is the opinion of Paloma Cari?±anos Continue Reading »

Despite the well-known dangers of high blood pressure, major shortfalls still exist in the screening, treatment and control of the disease even when patients are getting a doctor’s care, according to a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
In a unique look at how blood pressure, or hypertension, is being addressed once a patient steps into a doctor’s office, the study reported a lack of Continue Reading »

Huijing Xia, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the lead author on a paper reporting that a recently identified enzyme in the brain plays a critically important role in the central regulation of blood pressure. The Continue Reading »

One of the busiest weeks at the start of the year is about to hit Allergy UK. Since Christmas and the New Year, the volume of calls from people suffering with symptoms which could be related to food have been steadily climbing.
The majority of people contacting us will be suffering food sensitivity, a true food allergy Continue Reading »

Racial disparity in the control of hypertension contributes to the deaths of almost 8,000 black men and women in the United States annually, according to a first-of-its-kind study published today in the Annals of Family Medicine by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers.
The researchers concluded that the deaths could be avoided or postponed if blacks had their hypertension, Continue Reading »

U.S. residents between ages 10 and 19 do not receive adequate medical care, according to a report recently released by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, the AP/Arizona Daily Star reports. The report found that the system of care for adolescents lacks coordination and proper design, as few physicians specialize in care for teens or provide comprehensive care that Continue Reading »

Short term counselling followed by a modest cut in work hours may help reduce emotional exhaustion (burnout) and sick leave in doctors, according to a study published on bmj.com today.
It is well known that doctors have higher rates of depression and suicide than the general population and are less likely to seek help. There have been calls for early intervention programmes Continue Reading »

High caffeine consumption could be linked to a greater tendency to hallucinate, a new research study suggests.
People with a higher caffeine intake, from sources such as coffee, tea and caffeinated energy drinks, are more likely to report hallucinatory experiences such as hearing voices and seeing things that are not there, according to the Durham University study.
‘High caffeine users’ - those who consumed more than Continue Reading »

The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline for the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with primary aldosteronism. The guidelines appear in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), a publication of The Endocrine Society.
Primary aldosteronism (PA) refers to conditions in which Continue Reading »