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Stakeholder Insight: Major Depressive Disorder Duloxetine - Fulfilling An Unmet Need? (Pharmaceutical Business Review)

Introduction Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is estimated to affect over 34 million individuals yearly across the seven major markets.

Study: Depression-rate high among diabetics

WLS - March 29, 2006 - In a study published in the journal Diabetes Care, researchers found that about 25 percent of diabetes patients are clinically depressed. Two-hundred-twenty-one diabetes patients were examined. About 76 percent say they have had at ...

Weights Found To Benefit Breast-Cancer Survivors

NewsFactor Network - "Make sure you check with your doctor first. Don't just walk into the gym and start weight training," says Andrea Mastro, a professor of microbiology and cell biology at Penn State University. You need to be taught the proper form, ideally by a ...

Markets Mixed Ahead of Fed Rate Decision

CIO Today - Many economists expect Bernanke to put his stamp on the statement in some unknown way, but most don't think he'll be much clearer. "Look for the Fed to leave its poker-face statement unchanged," said Avery Shenfeld, senior economist at CIBC World ...

LaGrone says he feels like a coward

Peoria Journal Star - BLOOMINGTON - Maurice LaGrone Jr. testified Tuesday he panicked as a car sank in Clinton Lake 2 1/2 years ago and feels like a coward for not doing more to save his then-girlfriend's three young children from drowning. LaGrone, 30, spent more than ...

Therapy Helping Children With ADD

KEYE Austin - (CBS 42) AUSTIN More than three million children and more than a million adults are on drugs for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Some of the medications are linked to a small number of cardiovascular problems and possible psychiatric ...

Loneliness Related To Blood Pressure?

CBS News - Losing 22 pounds can trim five to 20 points off systolic blood pressure. (WebMD) Blood pressure and loneliness might be related, especially in older adults, new research shows. The University of Chicago’s Louise Hawkley, PhD, and colleagues studied ...

Loneliness Related To Blood Pressure?

CBS News - Losing 22 pounds can trim five to 20 points off systolic blood pressure. (WebMD) Blood pressure and loneliness might be related, especially in older adults, new research shows. The University of Chicago’s Louise Hawkley, PhD, and colleagues studied ...

Weight Training Benefits Mind And Body Of Breast Cancer Survivors (Medical News Today)

Weight training significantly improves the quality of life of women recently treated for breast cancer, according to a new study. Published in the May 1, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates six months of twice weekly exercise that improved strength and body composition was enough to result in improvements in the overall physical and

Depression Rate High Among Diabetics

Medscape News - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 29 - Results of a new study found that about 25% of patients with diabetes type 1 or type 2 have symptoms of depression, confirming the relationship between these two conditions. Investigators also found that depression ...

Pregnancy May Not Protect Against Depression, Study Finds

ABC News - Women Who Stop Antidepressants While Pregnant Significantly More Likely to Relapse A new study suggests that depressed women who stop taking antidepressants while pregnant have a significant chance of relapse. (PhotoDisc) Jan. 31, 2006 — Women who ...

Novartis buys in hepatitis and depression drugs

Reuters - ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - Novartis AG (NOVN.VX: Quote , Profile , Research ) has boosted its pipeline by buying in rights to two new drugs, paying up to $525 million to U.S. biotech firm Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. (IDIX.O: Quote , Profile , Research ...

Study: Treating mothers' depression reaches far

Philadelphia Inquirer - CHICAGO - Treating a mother's depression can help prevent it and other disorders in her child, according to a provocative study that may influence family health care. It is the first time doctors have documented what might seem like common sense, but ...

Weight Training Benefits Mind And Body Of Breast Cancer Survivors

Medical News Today - Weight training significantly improves the quality of life of women recently treated for breast cancer , according to a new study. Published in the May 1, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study ...

Unorthodox Therapy in New Orleans Raises Concern

NPR News - All Things Considered , March 29, 2006 · In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of well-meaning mental health professionals descended on the Gulf region to assist a traumatized population. For the most part, these people did a tremendous amount ...

Holistic center cares for entire households

Outlook Online - The Ki Center for Holistic Healing in downtown Gresham is living up to its name. According to Webster’s Dictionary, holistic medicine treats the whole person — it considers not just physical health but also emotional, spiritual, social and mental ...

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PlanetOut - Kari Sundstrom, a 41-year-old transgender woman, had been on female hormones for 15 years when, in January, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a law banning hormone treatments or sex reassigment surgery for prison inmates. This meant Sundstrom ...

PTSD stalks veterans, civilians

Bar Harbor Times - AUGUSTA - Until 1980, it didn't have an official name. But soldiers in all the wars in history, dating back to the Egyptians and the Greeks, had suffered from it. Some called it shell shock, others called it battle fatigue. In 1980, the American ...

Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain (New Scientist)

New nerve cells have been shown to form in rats given a cannabinoid chemical, and this cell growth might even lower depression

Obstetricians Need To Better Understand Costs, Benefits Of Recommending Bed Rest For Pregnant Women, Opinion Piece Says (Medical

Obstetricians need to "recognize the profound psychological and physical costs" of recommending bed rest for prenatal complications "and thoroughly research its putative benefits before yet another generation of women finds itself" subject to the treatment, Sarah Bilston, an English professor at Trinity College and author of the upcoming book "Bed Rest," writes in a New York Times opinion

Intellectual Property (Mondaq)

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that GlaxoSmithKline’s product-by-process patent was anticipated by its own product patent.

Challenging detention of children (Independent Race and Refugee News Network)

As campaigners across the world prepare for the first ever coordinated international day of action against immigration detention on 8 April, Liz Fekete charts the growing resistance to the detention of asylum-seeking children in Europe.

Study: Treating mom’s depression helps her child, too

New Castle News - Early and effective treatment of a mother’s depression is a top safeguard against her child’s having psychiatric disorders around the same time, according to a new study. Kids whose mothers are depressed are more likely to suffer from anxiety ...

NIH Researchers Identify OCD Risk Gene

WebWire - Wednesday, March 29, 2006, Scientists at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) have identified a previously unknown gene variant that doubles an individual’s risk for obsessive ...

Obstetricians Need To Better Understand Costs, Benefits Of ...

Medical News Today - Obstetricians need to "recognize the profound psychological and physical costs" of recommending bed rest for prenatal complications "and thoroughly research its putative benefits before yet another generation of women finds itself" subject to the ...

Lonely people susceptible to high blood pressure: study

Earthtimes - Having no one to share your joys and your sorrows with can harm not only your emotional health but also your physical one. According to a study by University of Chicago researchers, loneliness increases blood pressure in elders, a condition that can ...

Fear still haunts Tsunami survivors (New Scientist)

It is one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami killed over 300,000 people, but efforts to return to normal are hampered by a lack of psychological support

Fear still haunts Tsunami survivors (New Scientist)

It is one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami killed over 300,000 people, but efforts to return to normal are hampered by a lack of psychological support

Study: Treating mom’s depression helps her child, too

New Castle News - Early and effective treatment of a mother’s depression is a top safeguard against her child’s having psychiatric disorders around the same time, according to a new study. Kids whose mothers are depressed are more likely to suffer from anxiety ...

FEATURE-SARS prepares Toronto for bird flu (AlertNet)

TORONTO, March 29 (Reuters) - Toronto's deadly brush with the SARS virus three years ago has uniquely prepared the city for the possibility of a bird flu pandemic, health officials say.

Novartis and Servier sign licensing agreement for a novel treatment of ...

WebWire - * Once-daily treatment in Phase III with a novel mechanism of action as potential innovation for the pharmacological treatment of depression * Novartis acquires exclusive development and marketing rights to the US and several other countries. Basel ...

War without end

San Francisco Gate - Inside the second-floor ballroom of the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center, a banner stretched above the dance floor: "Welcome Home 1-5 Bobcats -- Operation Iraqi Freedom -- We Are So Proud of Our Heroes!'' Balloons floated above linen-draped ...

Women prisoners review ordered (BBC News)

The government orders a review into the treatment of vulnerable women within the criminal justice system.

Hovering Caregivers - Breast Cancer (BellaOnline)

I can remember one of my favorite notes, left on my desk. It read: ‘Peggie, call Jane; she is going to kill her husband, and wants you to come over and help her bury the body!’ All righty, now. Think I might return that call first.

Arrested justice: When LGBT people land in jail

Gay.com - Kari Sundstrom, a 41-year-old transgender woman, had been on female hormones for 15 years when, in January, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a law banning hormone treatments or sex reassigment surgery for prison inmates. This meant Sundstrom ...

Solving the mystery of fibromyalgia

Southern Illinoisan - You go to the doctor complaining of throbbing, burning muscle pain throughout your body, overwhelming fatigue, and anxiety that makes it extremely difficult to do even the everyday things like housecleaning, playing with the kids and exercising ...

Out of the shadow

Riverside Press Enterprise - HEMET - Brenda Scott's mother's battle with paranoid schizophrenia and manic depression was never spoken of among friends and family. DeeAnn Bradley / The Press-Enterprise Brenda Scott, of Hemet, became a member of the Mt. San Jacinto chapter of the ...

Myths about suicide persist

Independent Record - Depression has been called the common cold of mental health. Fortunately, this common medical condition is highly treatable with counseling, medication or both. Unlike a cold, untreated depression can drag on for years, damaging a person's quality of ...

Omega Protein plans to build new technical center for development of ...

Food Ingredients First - Mar 29,2006 -The technical center will have food science application labs, as well as analytical, sensory and pilot plant capabilities. 29/03/06 The United States, Omega Protein Corporation, the nation's leading producer of Omega-3 fish oil and ...

Feeds Newsletters

New York Post - March 29, 2006 -- LAST week Mary Winkler of Selmer, Tenn., went from a staid, inconspicuous substitute teacher to a figure of national notoriety. Here's how she did it: She picked up a gun and blasted her minister husband once in the back. And to ...

The whine chromosome

Times Herald-Record - If you're a guy who's not feeling emotionally or physically up to par, it could be that your hormones are out of whack. This can contribute to everything from feelings of frustration (think an emotional slow boil) to outbursts of anger (think road ...

Online registration prevents LI teen from getting acne meds

Newsday - For three years Elaine James agonized over whether to allow her teenage daughter, Katie Lynne, to take isotretinoin, a powerful drug for severe acne that cannot be cleared up by any other treatment. The drug, best known as Accutane, has been linked ...

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