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Five Health Conditions Can Derail Career

NBC5i.com - Calling in sick once or twice is one thing, but if you want to rub elbows with the boss, avoid five of the most-common health conditions that can sink your career. Depression is among them. The condition affects 10 percent of Americans and, according ...

Bruce leads the revival

Los Angeles Times - NEW ORLEANS — Sometime, somewhere, a more dramatic and exhilarating confluence of music with moment may have existed than Bruce Springsteen's appearance tonight at the 37th annual Jazz & Heritage Festival here. But in nearly 40 years of concert ...

Drug for Restless Legs Syndrome (BBC News)

A drug to treat Restless Legs Syndrome has become the first to be granted a European licence.

Alternative Treatments for ADHD that Work - Nutrition (BellaOnline)

Do alternative treatments for ADHD work? Can omega 3 fish oils, for example, help children control their behavior and pay attention at school? Absolutely!

Earnings Preview: Medco Health

MSN MoneyCentral - NEW YORK (AP) - Medco Health Solutions Inc., a pharmacy benefits provider, reports first-quarter earnings before the open of the market on May 5. Following is a summary of key developments and analyst commentary related to the period. OVERVIEW: Medco ...

Both Light Therapy and Prozac Good for Winter Blues Category ...

Softpedia - For people who suffer from winter depression, the most common type of seasonal affective disorder, bright-light therapy and Prozac are equally effective, Canadian researchers report in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "This study gives patients ...

Missouri center treats priests, brothers who sexually offend

Lexington Herald-Leader - DITTMER, Mo. - A Chicago priest, tall and quiet-spoken, said he came to a treatment center here for troubled Roman Catholic priests a broken man, depressed, and keeping "my secret of pedophilia." "I knew in my heart I needed help," he told The ...

Freud legacy celebrated, debated

Beaufort Gazette - VIENNA, Austria (AP) - At the Cafe Freud, a whimsical watering hole two doors down from the apartment where Sigmund Freud plumbed the human psyche, a famous poster commands instant attention. It's a cartoon profile of the frowning father of ...

Correction: May 2 Cyberonics Stock Story

MSN MoneyCentral - (AP) - In a May 2 story about trading in Cyberonics Inc. stock, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the company reiterated its 2007 guidance of $204 million in sales. The company instead targets sales of $51 million for the fourth quarter ...

Gowdy makes legal history in court case (u.tv)

Legal history was made in a Belfast court today as a former pub doorman was cross-examined on a live TV link from England.

Diet-pill addiction can be very hard to kick

Hampton Roads Daily Press - Q: I am addicted to the diet pill phentermine. I have been abusing this medication for 10 years, usually taking 10 pills a day. I have called a couple of clinics to try to get help, but the people I've spoken to act like this is not a real drug ...

Freud Legacy Celebrated, Debated

CBS News - (AP) At the Cafe Freud, a whimsical watering hole two doors down from the apartment where Sigmund Freud plumbed the human psyche, a famous poster commands instant attention. It's a cartoon profile of the frowning father of psychoanalysis, with nose ...

Celebrated or scorned, Freud's work is here to stay

Lexington Herald-Leader - VIENNA, Austria - At the CafŽ Freud, a whimsical watering hole two doors down from the apartment where Sigmund Freud plumbed the human psyche, a famous poster commands instant attention. It's a cartoon profile of the frowning father of ...

By TERRY RINDFLEISCH La Crosse Tribune

La Crosse Tribune - Out of the blue, Linda Hartwich feels like she is having a heart attack. The 46-year-old La Crosse area woman begins to sweat. Her heart pounds, her ears ring. She’s nauseated and feels like she’s going to pass out. She can’t function for four ...

Health fair booths offer screenings plus latest medical information

Rapid City Journal - RAPID CITY -- People attending the 24th annual Black Hills Area Health & Human Services Fair on Saturday, April 29, can expect to see the usual medical items that are used to test for high blood pressure, screen for diabetes and check cholesterol ...

Implant may help treat depression

Spokane Spokesman-Review - A controversial implant the size of a pocket watch is now being offered as an option for Spokane patients with severe depression who have failed to respond to more conventional treatments. The device – known as the Vagus nerve stimulator – won ...

Addressing Depression: Group Says Wisconsin Can Do More

WQOW - Wisconsin needs to get better about addressing a serious illness in women. That's the word from a state task force that says women are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression. "You deserve to enjoy life and not be in this dark depression ...

Social Issue / Long Term Care

Science Daily - N.Y. nursing home in talks with state (1:19 pm) -- Following an investigation that led to the arrests of 14, the New York state attorney general wants a Rochester, N.Y., nursing home closed. The New ... > full story Copyright 2006 by United Press ...

Whole Health Expo explores a variety of topics

Connellsville Daily Courier - "Twenty years ago, alternative treatments such as massage therapy, acupuncture and yoga were considered on the fringe of accepted medical practices," he says. "Now, they're close to being mainstream." Podolsky, of Northhampton, Mass., is producer of ...

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