August 21st, 2006
New research confirms what many have learned the hard way. Mental stress can reduce the effectiveness of the immune system influencing how we cope with allergies and asthma.
The investigation, performed on Russian medical students as they prepared for a stressful examination ...
August 21st, 2006
An innovative study in an upper-middle-class community in Spain seeks to answer the question of whether the mental illness increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. The research is important because researchers already know that many of the medications used to control ...
August 21st, 2006
Researchers discover that some adult survivors of childhood cancers have a dangerous incidence of suicidal thoughts or attempts. Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that the suicidal symptoms were reported by more than 12 percent of survivors–- a greater proportion than had ...
August 21st, 2006
University of Utah researchers believe an unusual nerve toxin found in a saltwater snail may foster a new type of drug for treatment of a variety of psychiatric and brain diseases.
Tthe toxin's ability to attach to nicotine receptors in the brain ...
August 18th, 2006
The announcement last week that the Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic version of Effexor (venlafaxine), is good news for individuals prescribed the depression medication. Despite the cost difference between brand names and generics, the quality standards are the same. ...
August 18th, 2006
Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer among American men, ranking only behind skin cancer. A recent study found that diet changes, reinforced by stress management training, appeared to be effective in slowing or halting the spread of this ...
August 18th, 2006
School programs can be effective for managing aggressive behavior in students, finds a new review of published literature. Researchers discovered the most effective programs are those that help students learn key social skills such as listening, thinking about the feelings of others, ...
August 17th, 2006
A new survey from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System finds 42 percent of Americans experienced poorly coordinated, inefficient, or unsafe care at some time during the past two years, including unnecessary care or treatment recommended by a ...
August 17th, 2006
Can online video games actually have socially redeeming qualities? As many parents lament, online games often seem to be an obsession consuming free-time and appearing to limit social interaction. Now, according to experts, one form of online entertainment called massively ...
August 17th, 2006
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a type of staph infection originating in hospitals and nursing homes in the 1960s, is now reported to be the most common cause of skin and soft-tissue infections among patients receiving care in emergency rooms.
The modern ...
