September 8th, 2006
A recent report gives a sobering warning to individuals who use cocaine. Investigators discover that cocaine, in concentrations commonly sold on the street, causes the abnormal buildup of primitive proteins in heart muscle – a process causing heart enlargement that can ultimately ...
September 7th, 2006
A new study finds the emotional impact of injury becomes more profound in the first year after evacuation from combat.The presence of PTSD or depression was associated with the severity of the physical problem one month after the actual injury and linked ...
September 7th, 2006
Most parents would testify that teenagers are in their "own world", and that their actions often fail to take account of people's feelings and sometimes even fail to think about their own. New research provides a scientific rationale for this behavior finding ...
September 7th, 2006
A new study reveals that African American teens with symptoms of depression are more than four times likely to engage in risky sexual behavior (i.e. not wear condoms). The innovative research assessed African American teens of both genders and from more than ...
September 7th, 2006
While use of opiod derivatives to treat chronic pain is often an effective strategy, a serious limitation is the potential for medication abuse. A recent study of patients receiving opioid (opiate) medications for chronic pain, has confirmed that a number of warning ...
September 6th, 2006
Scientists report that infants carrying a specific immune gene, called HLA-B, are more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life, especially if the child is female. The problem arises if the infant gene too closely resembles their mother’s gene.
HLA-B is one ...
September 6th, 2006
A new study finds that the odds are more than two to one that people whose close relatives developed chronic severe unipolar depression when they were young--will have it, too.
The study, by Johns Hopkins University researchers consisted of a multicenter analysis ...
September 6th, 2006
Genetically engineered animals lose the ability to recognize familiar objects and companions when the level of a protein crucial for recycling a chemical messenger in the brain is reduced. These symptoms resemble those of Alzheimer's disease says an international team led by ...
September 5th, 2006
Remember how a chubby toddler was thought to be a happy and healthy child? The old adage of growing out of your baby fat does not appear to hold water as a collaborative study by the NIH and several academic institutions find ...
September 5th, 2006
A new study finds individuals whose mothers imbibed three or more glasses of alcohol at any one occasion in early pregnancy, have an increased risk of developing alcohol disorders by 21 years of age.
While previous studies have documented difficulties in thinking, ...
