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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 »

Men’s Health News
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 »

Scientists in Sydney have identified a process, a synergistic encounter between two molecules, that may account for the extreme allergic reactions some people experience. By silencing at least one of these molecules, it may be possible to treat allergies.
The molecules, IL-4 and IL-21, are cytokines 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 a promising new mechanism in development Continue Reading »

Although maternal suicide after giving birth is a relatively rare occurrence, suicide attempts often have long-lasting effects on the family and the infant. In a study published in the August 2008 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers compared two populations of mothers and found that a history of psychiatric disorders or substance 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 »

Cytos Biotechnology Ltd (SWX:CYTN) announced
results from two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled,
multicentre phase II studies
with CYT003-QbG10 monotherapy for the treatment of house dust mite and cat
allergy, and with
CYT005-AllQbG10 combination therapy for the treatment of house dust mite
allergy. The studies were
conducted 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 Continue Reading »

Researchers examined the levels of post traumatic stress reactivity (PTSR) of over 20,000 adult tsunami survivors by analyzing survey data from coastal Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia. The findings are from the first wave of a long-term prospective longitudinal follow-up study examining the nature and course of mental health consequences and moderating Continue Reading »

Greer, a leading developer and provider of allergy immunotherapy products and services, has completed enrollment for its pivotal Phase III clinical trial designed to study the efficacy of sublingual-oral immunotherapy (SLIT) as a treatment for adults with allergic rhinoconjunctivitis caused by short ragweed pollen. Generic Continue Reading »

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Women from across the country are making their voices heard on the best ways to care for their bodies, their minds and each other. Their tips? Practice safe sex, get those yearly exams and learn to manage stress.
Through a national women’s health Web site and Brickfish, a social media advertising platform, women are sharing their best health advice through the "The Gift of Giving" contest Continue Reading »

The US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has approved two single-pill combination medications,
Diovan HCT(R) (valsartan and hydrochlorothiazide) and Exforge(R)
(amlodipine and valsartan), as initial or ‘first-line’ therapies in
patients likely to need multiple drugs to achieve their blood pressure Continue Reading »

For the first time, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified genetic components of dendritic cells that are key to asthma and allergy-related immune response malfunction. Targeting these elements could result in more effective drugs to treat allergic disorders and asthma, according to a study reported in the May edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
Dendritic cells are vital Continue Reading »

Some form of immunotherapy is expected to be available for peanut allergy within the next five years. But the reasons for the increasing prevalence of this allergic reaction remain unclear. The issues are discussed by Professor Wesley Burks, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA, in a Seminar in this week’s edition of The Lancet.
Peanut allergy has become a major health concern worldwide, especially in developed countries, and affects around Continue Reading »

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.,
announced that data presented at the American Society of
Hypertension’s Twenty- Third Annual Scientific Meeting (ASH 2008) in New
Orleans demonstrated that the powerful combination drug AZOR(TM)
(amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil) safely and effectively helped
patients across several major subpopulations lower their blood pressure
(BP). An analysis Continue Reading »

Expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children’s risk of developing asthma by more than 50 percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during pregnancy, according to new research from the Netherlands.
"We were pretty surprised to see the adverse associations between daily versus rare nut product consumption during Continue Reading »

The negative effects of stress on cognitive functioning appear to be amplified by a genetic variation associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a new federally funded study has found. The genetic variation may, in effect, accelerate the development of age-related cognitive decline by as much as eight years.
Researchers from the Baltimore Memory Study report in The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP), Continue Reading »

BrainCells Inc. (BCI), a
biopharmaceutical company utilizing its platform technology to identify and
develop compounds that promote the growth of new neurons for the treatment
of central nervous system (CNS) diseases, announced that it has
initiated a Phase 2a clinical trial with its lead Continue Reading »

Sanofi-aventis
announced results from a new study that showed Ambien CR(R) (zolpidem
tartrate extended-release) CIV tablets 12.5 mg provided significant
improvement in sleep onset, sleep maintenance and total sleep time over 8
weeks in patients with co-morbid insomnia and major depressive disorder
(MDD) Continue Reading »

A team of Scottish researchers have shown that cancer patients offered a depression care intervention - delivered by specially trained oncology nurses with no previous psychiatric experience - showed improvements in symptoms of depression compared to patients offered usual care. The beneficial effects of the "Depression Continue Reading »

Men’s Health News
Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according to recent data published in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Philip M. Arlen, M.D., director of the Clinical Research Group for the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology Continue Reading »

Wholesnax has recalled some batches of its chocolate coated brazils, peanuts, raisins, peanuts and raisins and mixed nuts and raisins because they contain soya lecithin which is declared as lecithin in the ingredients list. The products, therefore, are unsuitable for people with a soya allergy. The Agency has issued an Allergy Alert.
Anyone with a soya allergy Continue Reading »

New research suggests that beating childhood egg allergy is literally a piece of cake.
In a preliminary study, researchers in Greece demonstrated that gradually exposing allergic children to heat-treated egg - such as those in baked goods - could help them overcome the allergy.
In the trial, 94 children were regularly given tiny amounts of cake containing egg. Over a period of several months, the quantity Continue Reading »