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Work stress, resulting from great pressure at the work place, may increase the progression of atherosclerosis by 46% in people who have highly reactive personalities to stress. This is demonstrated by a study which will be discussed at the XVI World Congress of Cardiology to be held from May 18th - May 22nd in Buenos Aires and will be attended by 15,000 Continue Reading »

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People taking prescription antidepressants appear to drive worse than people who aren’t taking such drugs, and depressed people on antidepressants have even more trouble concentrating and reacting behind the wheel.
These were the conclusions of a study released Sunday at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
University of North Dakota psychologists Holly Dannewitz. PhD, and Continue Reading »

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a drop in blood potassium levels caused by diuretics commonly prescribed for high blood pressure could be the reason why people on those drugs are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. The drugs helpfully accelerate loss of fluids, but also deplete important chemicals, including potassium, so that those who take them are generally advised to eat bananas and other potassium-rich Continue Reading »

University of Florida researchers have identified a
gene variation in heart disease patients who appear especially
vulnerable to the physical effects of mental stress - to the point where
blood flow to the heart is greatly reduced.
"Searching for the presence of this gene may be one way to better
identify patients who are at an increased risk for Continue Reading »

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced pilot study results from the first multi-center study investigating deep brain stimulation (DBS) of Brodmann Area 25 for major depressive disorder.
Results of the study, which were presented at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) meeting in Washington, D.C., found that 6 months after the procedure, 56 percent of the patients Continue Reading »

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have, for the first time, found that angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) - a particular class of anti-hypertensive medicines - are associated with a striking decrease in the occurrence and progression of dementia. Data from this study was presented at the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer’s disease in Chicago.
Using data from the Decision Continue Reading »

Swedish and British scientists have shown using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that the hormone oxytocin can inhibit feelings of anxiety in specific individuals. Their discovery might lead to a better understanding and the improved treatment of psychiatric affections in which people feel distressed when meeting others, such as in cases of autism and social phobia.
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that Continue Reading »

Mom and Dad are going to flip out over my 3.3 GPA and failure to land a top internship.
Such anxieties, common among college students, can harm self-esteem and make it more difficult to adjust to school. But a new University of Central Florida study has found that students’ anxieties often are based on exaggerated perceptions of what their parents expect.
The problem, UCF psychologist Kimberly Renk says, is that many parents and students hold different perceptions Continue Reading »

Buy generic levitra Baltimore: The city in September will launch a six-month awareness campaign about salt intake associated with high blood pressure, particularly among blacks, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the Sun, "In a city that is nearly 65% black, the risks of hypertension, which can lead to heart attack, kidney Continue Reading »

Men who take up cycling in an effort to stay fit, do their bit for the environment or
avoid spiralling motoring costs, could be harming their health if they don’t choose the
right bicycle. That’s the stark warning from consultant urological surgeon Mr Vinod
Nargund from St Bartholomew’s and Homerton Hospitals, London, in the urology
journal BJU International.
He says that Continue Reading »

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Online Internet shopping today offers many benefits. You can research a product in the privacy of your own home and purchase most anything by clicking a mouse. But should we be allowed to buy prescription drugs via the Internet, bypassing a traditional office visit or conversation with a physician?
In the August issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers from Utah and several colleagues compare the relative safety Continue Reading »

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If you’re fishing for ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, you might start with the seafood-rich diet typically served up in Japan. According to new research, a lifetime of eating tuna, sardines, salmon and other fish appears to protect Japanese men against clogged arteries, despite other cardiovascular risk factors.
The research, published in the August 5, 2008, issue of Journal of the 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 on the Continue Reading »

In spite of the range of medications now available, major depression remains a challenging disease to treat. generic viagra online buy Only about half of adult patients respond to the first antidepressant Continue Reading »

Dementia is one of the major challenges of the 21st century due to the enormous burden these disorders impose on health care systems.
Recently, common pathways of the two most frequent causes of dementia, Alzheimer??s disease and vascular Continue Reading »

Employees who work overtime are at increased risk of anxiety and depression, suggests a study in the June Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
Elisabeth Kleppa and colleagues of the University of Bergen, Norway, analyzed data on work hours from a larger study of Norwegian men and women. Continue Reading »

College students with food allergies aren’t avoiding the foods they know they shouldn’t eat. Students of all ages are not treated with potentially life-saving epinephrine as often as they should be. And instructors, roommates and friends often are not aware of what to do if a food-allergic student has a reaction.
These are some of the findings of recent studies at the University of Michigan Health System. The research suggests that many college Continue Reading »

Voluntary exercise does not appear to reduce anxiety and depression in
diverse populations, but exercise and mood could Continue Reading »

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes limitation of
airflow in the lungs that cannot be fully reversed, leading Continue Reading »

Findings from a new study could aid in the development of safer and more effective blood pressure drugs, according to Loyola University Health System researchers.
The results also could help researchers predict whether drugs intended for other conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy, would have either the detrimental effect of 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 »

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Men who develop breast cancer are often not treated until the disease has spread to the point that treatment becomes difficult, new results show.
Although most breast cancer patients are women, men make up roughly 1% of cases, Dr. Generic zithromax pills no prescription Marina Garassino from the Orion Collaborative Group reports at the ESMO Conference Lugano (ECLU), organized by Continue Reading »

Virginia Commonwealth University is part of an international research team that received a Wellcome Trust Foundation grant totaling more than $2.8 million to identify the genetic variants that have an impact on the risk for recurrent major depression.
The goal of the five-year project, a collaboration between researchers based at the University of Oxford in England, VCU in the United States, and Fudan University in Shanghai, China, is to identify genetic Continue Reading »