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Breast Cancer Survivors Get a Lift from Weight Lifting

Daily News Central - The women in the exercise group said they felt they had more strength, speed and self-confidence as a result of the workouts. It appears the weight lifting helped them regain a feeling of control of their bodies, researchers said. Weight lifting ...

Lack Of Specialist Training For Nurses Is Failing Adolescent Cancer ...

Medical News Today - Teenagers and young adults with cancer are not always cared for appropriately because a lack of specialist training for nurses means that staff are not necessarily equipped to recognise and meet the unique needs of this age group, according to a ...

'Patients report that the emptiness disappears' (Guardian Unlimited)

Science: Sufferers from depression who do not respond to existing treatments could benefit from new procedure.

'When we turn the current on the emptiness disappears' (Guardian Unlimited)

Operation for depression offers hope to the prevoiusly untreatable.

Lack Of Specialist Training For Nurses Is Failing Adolescent Cancer Patients, UK (Medical News Today)

Teenagers and young adults with cancer are not always cared for appropriately because a lack of specialist training for nurses means that staff are not necessarily equipped to recognise and meet the unique needs of this age group, according to a nurse manager at the Manchester Teenage Cancer Trust Unit... click link for more info.

'Patients report that the emptiness disappears' (Guardian Unlimited)

Science: Sufferers from depression who do not respond to existing treatments could benefit from new procedure.

'When we turn the current on the emptiness disappears' (Guardian Unlimited)

Operation for depression offers hope to the prevoiusly untreatable.

'Patients report that the emptiness disappears' (Guardian Unlimited)

Science: Sufferers from depression who do not respond to existing treatments could benefit from new procedure.

'When we turn the current on the emptiness disappears' (Guardian Unlimited)

Operation for depression offers hope to the prevoiusly untreatable.

Lack Of Specialist Training For Nurses Is Failing Adolescent Cancer Patients, UK (Medical News Today)

Teenagers and young adults with cancer are not always cared for appropriately because a lack of specialist training for nurses means that staff are not necessarily equipped to recognise and meet the unique needs of this age group, according to a nurse manager at the Manchester Teenage Cancer Trust Unit... click link for more info.

• Teens With Epilepsy Prone to Depression

HealthScout - THURSDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer than half of the people in a new study who felt the symptoms of a "mini- stroke " sought medical attention quickly, and just one in 10 went to an emergency room. "These figures are a cause for concern ...

• Guided Imagery Helps Children Facing Surgery

HealthScout - THURSDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- Teenagers who have epilepsy often face a double whammy because along with the seizure disorder, they're much more prone to depression and other psychiatric problems. In fact, up to 60 percent of all teens with ...

Study: Pumping Iron Helps Cancer Survivors

WINK TV - ATLANTA Weightlifting appears to improve breast cancer survivors' outlook on life, suggests one of the first studies to scientifically measure the effects of such exercise. About 80 percent of women who took up twice-a-week weight-training saw ...

Clinical Data Initiates Patient Enrollment for Vilazodone Phase 3 ...

Genetic Engineering News - Clinical Data, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDA), a worldwide leader in providing comprehensive molecular and pharmacogenomics services as well as clinical diagnostics to improve patient care, announced today that it has initiated patient enrollment in a pivotal ...

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 ...

Study: Pumping iron helps cancer survivors

Grand Forks Herald - ATLANTA - Weightlifting appears to improve breast cancer survivors' outlook on life, suggests one of the first studies to scientifically measure the effects of such exercise. About 80 percent of women who took up twice-a-week weight-training saw ...

Urban invasion of meth coming

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Methamphetamine production and use may be a bigger problem in southern and rural parts of Indiana, but state and local officials want to be prepared for an urban invasion that they say is already happening. That was part of the message at a town hall ...

Parity in mental health coverage poses little extra cost, study finds

Baltimore Sun - However, they reported, a look at one measure - whether patients received appropriate follow-up care for depression - found significant improvement in three of the seven plans after parity was instituted. The authors said they didn't measure ...

 LOTTERY MILLIONS HAVE MENTAL HEALTH IN MIND (Government News Network)

Organisations focusing on mental health are among 20 charities receiving research awards totalling nearly £5 million today from the Big Lottery Fund. The awards bring to over £51 million the amount of Lottery good cause funding that has flowed into research to since 1998.

 GOOD HEALTH AT HEART OF LOTTERY RESEARCH FUNDING (Government News Network)

Vital health projects are among 20 research awards totalling nearly £5 million announced today by the Big Lottery Fund, bringing the total amount invested through the Lottery good cause Fund's research programme to over £51 million.

Tsunami survivors need long-term psychological care (New Scientist)

Victims need both immediate and long-term mental health support to deal with the threat of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression

FDA Approves Extended Dosing Of Aranesp (Medical News Today)

Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved every-three-week dosing of Aranesp® (darbepoetin alfa) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia (low red blood cell count) in patients with non-myeloid malignancies... click link for more info.

Psychedelic medicine: Mind bending, health giving (New Scientist)

LSD and other hallucinogens were once considered promising psychiatric treatments. Vive la renaissance, says John Horgan

FDA Approves Extended Dosing Of Aranesp

Medical News Today - Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved every-three-week dosing of Aranesp® (darbepoetin alfa) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia (low ...

Of Katrina

Biloxi Sun Herald - Residue of Hurricane Katrina lingers for some of its youngest survivors. According to one South Mississippi doctor, some children have begun to exhibit symptoms of full-blown post-traumatic stress disorder. More significantly perhaps, "There is a ...

Psychedelic medicine: Mind bending, health giving (New Scientist)

LSD and other hallucinogens were once considered promising psychiatric treatments. Vive la renaissance, says John Horgan

Cannabis link to mental illness strengthened (New Scientist)

New evidence that regular cannabis use can cause later depression and schizophrenia should inform the legalisation debate, say researchers

Teenagers face health timebomb (New Scientist)

Adolescents are the only age group whose health is getting worse, with rising obesity, binge-drinking and under-age sex, reveals a UK report

FDA Approves Extended Dosing Of Aranesp (Medical News Today)

Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved every-three-week dosing of Aranesp® (darbepoetin alfa) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia (low red blood cell count) in patients with non-myeloid malignancies... click link for more info.

Theft incident a 'cry for help'?

Richmond Times-Dispatch - David C. Papenfuse had been Hanover schools' assistant superintendent for finance for more than nine years. As assistant superintendent of finance and technology for Hanover County schools, David C. Papenfuse was earning $132,000 a year. He and his ...

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 ...

Psychedelic medicine: Mind bending, health giving (New Scientist)

LSD and other hallucinogens were once considered promising psychiatric treatments. Vive la renaissance, says John Horgan

FDA Approves Extended Dosing Of Aranesp (Medical News Today)

Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved every-three-week dosing of Aranesp® (darbepoetin alfa) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia (low red blood cell count) in patients with non-myeloid malignancies... click link for more info.

The Right's New Legalism

Falls Church News-Press - Fundamentalist Christianity has always been a "legalistic" religion, but the term has taken on a whole new meaning as the far right has unleashed its legion of lawyers to bully, harass and intimidate opponents. As the Neo-puritans increasingly lose ...

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