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Drug firms accused over 'bogus diseases' (The Scotsman)

THE drugs industry yesterday dismissed claims it is "disease-mongering" to make money by supplying treatments for non-existent illnesses.

Study: Estrogen not a breast cancer threat

Science Daily - WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- Estrogen does not increase risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women with hysterectomies, according to a new study that may simmer down a heated debate on estrogen. The study, part of the federal Women's Health ...

Drug firms accused over 'bogus diseases' (The Scotsman)

THE drugs industry yesterday dismissed claims it is "disease-mongering" to make money by supplying treatments for non-existent illnesses.

Omega-3 moves into medical mainstream

Newsday - In the days following the Jan. 2 Sago Mine explosion disaster, the only survivor, Randal McCloy Jr., was experiencing multiple organ failure and severe brain damage. Dr. Julian Bailes, McCloy's neurosurgeon at the West Virginia University School of ...

Drug firms accused over 'bogus diseases' (The Scotsman)

THE drugs industry yesterday dismissed claims it is "disease-mongering" to make money by supplying treatments for non-existent illnesses.

Judge talks tough to two-time underwear thief

Dunn County News - Convicted for the second time for stealing women’s underwear, a Menomonie man will spend the next year in the Dunn County Jail. When Anthony A. Scholfield, 25, appeared in Dunn County Circuit Court on Friday, he faced up to 18-and-a-half years in ...

Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report Highlights Recently Released Studies (Medical News Today)

The following highlights recently released studies on women's health issues. Pregnancy & Childbirth "Fostering International Collaboration in Birth Defects Research and Prevention: A Perspective From the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research," American Journal of Public Health: Lorenzo Botto of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

Possible Brain Hormone May Unlock Mystery Of Hibernation (Medical News Today)

The discovery of a possible hibernation hormone in the brain may unlock the mystery behind the dormant state, researchers reported in the April 2006 issue of Cell. Hibernation allows animals from bears to rodents to survive unscathed--in a state of suspended animation--under the harshest of winter conditions... click link for more info.

GTA - Young Men Behaving Badly (Spong)

Smoke marijuana, get laid and drink booze.

Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report Highlights Recently Released Studies (Medical News Today)

The following highlights recently released studies on women's health issues. Pregnancy & Childbirth "Fostering International Collaboration in Birth Defects Research and Prevention: A Perspective From the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research," American Journal of Public Health: Lorenzo Botto of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

Possible Brain Hormone May Unlock Mystery Of Hibernation (Medical News Today)

The discovery of a possible hibernation hormone in the brain may unlock the mystery behind the dormant state, researchers reported in the April 2006 issue of Cell. Hibernation allows animals from bears to rodents to survive unscathed--in a state of suspended animation--under the harshest of winter conditions... click link for more info.

Coping with the gray

Union - You might feel like writing a blues song at this point. Maybe call it "The Rains, They Done Me Wrong." Five weeks of incessantly wet weather has caused many Nevada County residents to wonder if they will ever see sustained sunny conditions again, and ...

Possible Brain Hormone May Unlock Mystery Of Hibernation

Medical News Today - The discovery of a possible hibernation hormone in the brain may unlock the mystery behind the dormant state, researchers reported in the April 2006 issue of Cell. Hibernation allows animals from bears to rodents to survive unscathed--in a state of ...

Possible Brain Hormone May Unlock Mystery Of Hibernation (Medical News Today)

The discovery of a possible hibernation hormone in the brain may unlock the mystery behind the dormant state, researchers reported in the April 2006 issue of Cell. Hibernation allows animals from bears to rodents to survive unscathed--in a state of suspended animation--under the harshest of winter conditions... click link for more info.

Omega-3 moves into medical mainstream

Newsday - In the days following the Jan. 2 Sago Mine explosion disaster, the only survivor, Randal McCloy Jr., was experiencing multiple organ failure and severe brain damage. Dr. Julian Bailes, McCloy's neurosurgeon at the West Virginia University School of ...

Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report Highlights Recently Released ...

Medical News Today - " Fostering International Collaboration in Birth Defects Research and Prevention: A Perspective From the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research ," American Journal of Public Health : Lorenzo Botto of CDC 's National ...

VA clinic helps vets cope with war

CNN - HINES, Illinois (AP) -- Josh Dobbelstein drives as close to the middle of the road as he can. Over on the side, in a plastic bag or stuffed in the carcass of a dead dog, that's where he knows the enemy intent on killing him hides bombs. Just the ...

Drug firms encourage manic depression, says academic (NewsWales)

Drug companies are in danger of creating an epidemic of bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness) in order to boost sales of mood stabiliser drugs, an academic from Cardiff University will argue at a conference this week.

Grand Theft Auto - Young Men Behaving Badly (Spong)

Smoke marijuana, get laid and drink booze. Game survey says so.

Do you have 'social jet lag'? (Belfast Telegraph)

If you spend most of your life feeling like you’ve just stepped off a long-haul flight, you could be suffering from ‘social jet lag ’. Kate Hilpern reports

The cure of the wild (Daily Telegraph)

Wilderness therapy claims that being close to nature can unlock the soul. Nicholas Roe tried it - and came to terms with a long-unspoken grief.

Could you be suffering from 'social jet lag'? (Independent)

It might be the middle of the day and I might be drowning in paperwork, but sometimes it's all I can do to resist sneaking forty winks into my afternoon routine. I'm not alone, it seems. More than half the population is in a permanent state of jet lag because our body clocks are so out of synch with the demands of modern life, and a new study has pinpointed some disturbing consequences of the

Healing touch

Allentown Morning Call - Jennifer Morrison, a 26-year-old physician's assistant from Coopersburg, had tried physical therapy, medication and exercise to relieve her back pain after a car accident. Nothing worked for long. Then, she went to see Chris Christopher, an ...

Cockroaches, Porn, Voices Fill Blue October Singer's Brain

MTV - voices the Blue October singer hears. He relies on his younger brother, drummer Jeremy, to convince him they aren't real. Luckily for Furstenfeld, he's also got his music to help him fight the demons — specifically the Houston rock band's new ...

Omega-3 moves into medical mainstream

Newsday - In the days following the Jan. 2 Sago Mine explosion disaster, the only survivor, Randal McCloy Jr., was experiencing multiple organ failure and severe brain damage. Dr. Julian Bailes, McCloy's neurosurgeon at the West Virginia University School of ...

Woman jailed after 2nd positive drug test

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - When Pauline Razzano asked a judge in 2002 to spare prison time for the woman responsible for killing Razzano's only child, she thought she was doing something positive for the woman's three young children. But after defendant Kelly Patten has twice ...

Depression can strike adoptive moms

Macleans - Anita Grant (not her real name) and her husband travelled from Toronto to China last May to adopt a healthy 13-month-old girl, a daughter they named Nadine. Grant wasn't prepared for what hit her shortly after she returned to Canada. "I felt lousy ...

Parents' mental health affects children's behavior, study says

Everett Herald - Successfully treating mothers for depression can do wonders for their children's mental health. So says a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, part of ongoing research aimed at discovering the best ...

Man gets 7 years in pedestrian’s death

Medina County Gazette - MEDINA — Brent J. Bailey was in a manic state when he took eight Percocet pills and drove his car, causing the September death of York Township resident Joseph L. Howard, said Bailey's attorney, Thomas McGuire. "He made poor decisions," McGuire ...

Implant Eases Depression - Or Does It?

NewsFactor Network - Made by Houston-based Cyberonics, the stopwatch-size device is surgically implanted in the chest and attached to a wire that snakes inside the neck to the vagus nerve. It delivers tiny electrical pulses to the nerve at 30-second intervals every five ...

Healing touch

Allentown Morning Call - Jennifer Morrison, a 26-year-old physician's assistant from Coopersburg, had tried physical therapy, medication and exercise to relieve her back pain after a car accident. Nothing worked for long. Then, she went to see Chris Christopher, an ...

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 ...

Program tackles debt

Chattanooga Times Free Press - Every Saturday morning, about a dozen men and women gather in a white-walled room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago to discuss their painful addiction. Members of Debtors Anonymous, their drugs of choice are typically credit cards. "I was ...

'People do get well from meth addiction'

Sioux City Journal - Janelle Tomoson, program director of Jackson Recovery's Women and Children's Center, looks over the happy faces of children during an Easter party last week. The youngsters stay at the center with their mothers who are seeking treatment for alcohol ...

Students drawing on the pain of hurricanes

Baton Rouge Advocate - Javonté LeFlore, left, and Darrylneka Thomas discuss their drawings during a Jan. 27 art-therapy session at Progress Elementary School. At top is a detail from a drawing done by Thomas. Therapist Folly Shaffer has been working with about 20 students ...

New Yorkers feeling stressed

WIS-TV - In fact, one out of seven New Yorkers reported they had poor mental health last year. A telephone survey of 10,000 New Yorkers finds 13 percent experienced frequent mental distress on 14 or more days of the month. This includes stress, depression and ...

What's Holding Up the Sandman?

New York Times - Americans' use of sleeping pills is skyrocketing, up nearly 60 percent since 2000, with about 42 million prescriptions filled last year. Experts surmise that "modern lifestyles" and the accompanying stress of too much to do in too little time are ...

GET RID OF THE STRESSES AND STRAINS OF EVERYDAY LIFE (Daily Record)

A SESSION of Body Stress Release (BSR) is different from any other alternative therapy I have ever tried. First of all you get to keep all your clothes on, which is a big plus for many people, and secondly, you don't even have to climb on to the plinth.

HealthWatch For April 10, 2006

NBC5 - Bad news about post-menopause hormone replacement therapy was released this week. Four years ago, a Women's Health Initiative study found that for many post-menopausal women, the risks of the therapy exceeded the perceived benefits. But it was ...

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