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Researchers Explore Psychological Link to Bowel Disorder

HealthCentral.com - THURSDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- As many as one in five Americans suffers from the pain, bloating and embarrassment caused by irritable bowel syndrome, one of the most common disorders diagnosed by doctors. But little is known about the disorder ...

WTC responders' illness worse than expected

Newsday - Doctors who treat World Trade Center responders say they are surprised almost five years later by the growing number seeking help for the first time -- 100 people a month in the biggest monitoring program -- and by the severity of illnesses among ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 (Reuters) - San Franciscan Michael Lynch has been living with HIV for six years and expects to live many more years with the virus that causes AIDS as long as he takes his medication - a marked contrast to when an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence.

Chronic Pain

WSOC-TV - Chronic pain is a type of pain that persists for at least a month, or well beyond the normal expected recovery time. The American Pain Foundation estimates about 50 million Americans are living with chronic pain. One of the most common types of ...

Researchers Explore Psychological Link to Bowel Disorder

Forbes - THURSDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- As many as one in five Americans suffers from the pain, bloating and embarrassment caused by irritable bowel syndrome, one of the most common disorders diagnosed by doctors. But little is known about the disorder ...

Heart rate recovery slower in depressed patients

Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cardiac rehabilitation patients who have symptoms of depression take longer to return to their normal heart rate after taking a treadmill stress test, researchers report in the American Heart Journal. Heart rate recovery ...

When Worry Gets in the Way of Life

WXIX - FRIDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- Adding to the growing evidence that mental illness in childhood can lead to problems later in life, a new Finnish study suggests that depressed kids are more likely to grow up to become smokers. Researchers who ...

Memory Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on MEM 3454 Program

Genetic Engineering News - MONTVALE, N.J., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: MEMY) today announced that the initiation of its Phase 2a clinical trial of MEM 3454, the Company's lead nicotinic alpha-7 receptor partial agonist, in Alzheimer's ...

Heart rate recovery slower in depressed patients (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cardiac rehabilitation patients who have symptoms of depression take longer to return to their normal heart rate after taking a treadmill stress test, researchers report in the American Heart Journal.

Cancer worries continue long after treatment ends

EurekAlert - CLEVELAND -- The doctor may give the cancer patient a clean bill of health, but worries about recurrences, lingering effects from treatment, a second cancer and a shortened life plague the thoughts of approximately one-third of long-term, older-adult ...

The Notorious Bettie Page 2 stars (R)

Montgomery Advertiser - For a movie about the pinup wonder of an era, "The Notorious Bettie Page" is surprisingly tame, an exuberant performance from Gretchen Mol in the title role going to waste in an uninvolving account. Considering the air of menace, decadence and ...

When Worry Gets in the Way of Life

WXIX - SUNDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- To be human is to worry -- about finances, your children's health, work, even whether you remembered to unplug the iron when you go on vacation. But if you find that worry seems to consume your life, that you ...

Health Tip: Think You Might Be Depressed?

WXIX - (HealthDay News) -- Everyone has days when they feel stressed, down or just a little blue. But clinical depression lasts more than just a few days or weeks, and makes it difficult to perform everyday tasks such as paying bills, going to work, or even ...

Mental Illness

Washington Post - Robinowitz is a former dean of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, where she also served as associate dean for students and professor of psychiatry. She has served as president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American ...

• Domestic Violence Takes Heavy Toll on Women

HealthScout - THURSDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- Belittling, shaming or threatening a child may be as detrimental to the young victim as physical or sexual abuse, new research suggests. Repeated verbal abuse from parents can contribute to depression and anxiety ...

The trauma of childbirth (Times Online)

So, how was childbirth for you? Lob that question to any average mother and she will usually step into gallows humour. “Imagine a trussed chicken passing a melon through its bottom,” is one reply I had. “Like having my genitals fed through a mincer”, was another.

There really is a healthy alternative (Times Online)

The Prince of Wales is well known for his interest in complementary medicine. Addressing the World Health Assembly in Geneva last Tuesday he issued a plea for patients to be offered both conventional and complementary treatments as part of an “integrated approach” to healthcare.

Mount Kisco tennis tourney marks 9/11 victim's legacy

journalnews.com - To learn more about the Peter C. Alderman Foundation, visit www.petercaldermanfoundation.org , e-mail grace@petercaldermanfoundation.org or call 914-763-8712. The Pound Ridge parents of a 25-year-old man who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade ...

Suspect in Juarez murders dies

El Paso Times - The Egyptian chemist suspected of several murders of women in Juarez, died early Thursday of a heart attack in a hospital in Chihuahua City, where he was jailed, Chihuahua state officials said. Abdel Latif Sharif Sharif, 59, was convicted in 2002 of ...

Flimsy tents now home for Indonesia survivors (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Tens of thousands of Indonesians took refuge in flimsy tents in the earthquake-hit region of Java island on Thursday, as officials urged a stop to aid distribution by night to prevent theft and looting.

Words as Powerful as Sticks and Stones

Forbes - THURSDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- Belittling, shaming or threatening a child may be as detrimental to the young victim as physical or sexual abuse, new research suggests. Repeated verbal abuse from parents can contribute to depression and anxiety ...

Java quake survivors pack tents

ABC News - YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Indonesians took refuge in flimsy tents in the earthquake-hit region of Java island on Thursday, as health workers worried that poor sanitation could spark an outbreak of disease. Five days after ...

Brain Metastases

WCAX - MONDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Adult survivors of childhood cancer are twice as likely to be jobless as those who don't have that health history, a new report finds. With certain cancers -- those of the brain and central nervous system -- the gap ...

When Worry Gets in the Way of Life

WCAX - FRIDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- Adding to the growing evidence that mental illness in childhood can lead to problems later in life, a new Finnish study suggests that depressed kids are more likely to grow up to become smokers. Researchers who ...

01 June 2006 (PharmiWeb)

DailyUpdates 26th May, 2006: As our daily trip around the drug discovery world continues we hit Friday with some revealing information on sepsis and new phase 3 data on Wyeth's antidepressant desvenlafaxine.

Flimsy tents now home for Indonesia quake survivors (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Tens of thousands of Indonesians took refuge in flimsy tents in the earthquake-hit region of Java island on Thursday, as officials urged a stop to aid distribution by night to prevent theft and looting.

When Worry Gets in the Way of Life

WCAX - SUNDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- To be human is to worry -- about finances, your children's health, work, even whether you remembered to unplug the iron when you go on vacation. But if you find that worry seems to consume your life, that you ...

Health Tip: Think You Might Be Depressed?

WCAX - (HealthDay News) -- Everyone has days when they feel stressed, down or just a little blue. But clinical depression lasts more than just a few days or weeks, and makes it difficult to perform everyday tasks such as paying bills, going to work, or even ...

Health happenings

Bradenton Herald - The Herald welcomes information on health-related events open to the public. The deadline for submitting information is noon Friday for the Thursday edition. Information - including time, date and place - can be dropped off, mailed to The Herald, P.O ...

Suffer from Chronic Depression? New Treatment Offers Hope

WALB 10 - (ARA) - Do you feel sad all the time? Have trouble concentrating and making decisions? Or experience feelings of guilt, worthlessness and helplessness that won't go away? If so, you may be one of the 19 million Americans who suffer from depression ...

Dozen cons take shot at sex change

Boston Herald - A s a convicted killer demanded a taxpayer-funded sex change in court yesterday, the correction officer’s union said about a dozen transsexual cons get regular $150-a-pop gender-bending female hormone injections deemed a medical necessity by the ...

Java quake survivors pack tents

Washington Post - YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Indonesians took refuge in flimsy tents in the earthquake-hit region of Java island on Thursday, as health workers worried that poor sanitation could spark an outbreak of disease. Five days after ...

“ Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away ...

Halifax Chronicle-Herald - Bishop Fred Hiltz, of the Anglican Diocese for Nova Scotia and P.E.I., says VLT-related family tragedies continue to occur despite increased government controls imposed last year. (Darren Pittman / Staff) Anti-VLT lobby asks leaders to show ‘moral ...

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U.S. Navy medical officer Craig Cooper examines an earthquake victim's x-ray at their clinic in Sewon, south of Yogyakarta in Central Java June 1, 2006.

Java quake survivors take refuge (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Tens of thousands of Indonesians took refuge in flimsy tents in the earthquake-hit region of Java island on Thursday, as health workers worried that poor sanitation could spark an outbreak of disease.

Mental Health and Illness - Bouncing Back from the Brink

Southern Illinoisan - Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States suffered from depression his entire adult life. He often battled suicidal thoughts and would go off into the woods, alone accompanied only by a gun. During the time of his second nervous ...

WTC responders illness worse than expected

Newsday - Doctors who treat World Trade Center responders say they are surprised almost five years later by the growing number seeking help for the first time -- 100 people a month in the biggest monitoring program -- and by the severity of illnesses among ...

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