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The financial crisis could lead to greater use of cheap heating fuels and burning of waste at home, increasing risks to children’s health. This adds urgency to discussions taking place in preparation for the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in 2010. On 28-29 January 2009, European policy-makers are gathered in Luxembourg at the Thematic Meeting on Healthy Environments to recommend actions and policies to protect children’s health from Read the rest of this entry »

Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School, today announced the creation of its online Stress Resource Center at The resource center was created to help the general public understand the ways that daily stress affects their bodies and how they can reduce these Read the rest of this entry »

Most people know that too much sodium from foods can increase blood pressure.
A new study suggests that people trying to lower their blood pressure should also boost their intake of potassium, which has the opposite effect to sodium.
Researchers found that the ratio of sodium-to-potassium in subjects’ urine was a much stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease than sodium or potassium alone.
"There isn’t as much focus on potassium, Read the rest of this entry »

Recent tests on human cells show that SCN’s patented substance NGNA/N5G has good antiviral effect on several viruses that affect humans, especially the rhinovirus, which is the most common cause for cold symptoms. The substance also has a strong protective effect against severe complications from the influenza virus.
In 2007, Scandinavian Read the rest of this entry »

A faint waft of men’s cologne in a shopping mall. The smell of a neighbor’s barbecue. A flash of a face on TV: small unexpected sensory cues can trigger extreme reactions in people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), about one quarter of all people who have lived through a traumatic event like rape, assault, war or terror attack.
New research by Read the rest of this entry »

Based on positive Phase II trial findings, Bayer Schering Pharma will move into Phase III trials with its oral agent riociguat (BAY 63-2521). Riociguat is the first member of a new class of vasodilating agents called soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) stimulators. It is being investigated as a new approach for the treatment of different forms of pulmonary hypertension. Riociguat demonstrated significantly improved Read the rest of this entry »

Depressed pregnant women have twice the risk of preterm delivery than pregnant women with no symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. The study is published online in the Oxford University Press’s journal Human Reproduction on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
The study found that pregnant women with symptoms of depression Read the rest of this entry »

Dartmouth researchers with the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research are preparing to visit the Galveston, Texas area on their first field mission in early November to study the impact of Hurricane Ike, which hit in late September.
The NCDMHR, established last year with funding from the National Institutes of Health, aims to study long-term recovery from disasters, focusing on mental health. Hurricane Ike is Read the rest of this entry »

A review article which is published in the current issue of the European Journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics analyzes the relationship between depression and bone metabolism.
This study reveals that the association between psychiatric illness, in particular depression, and osteoporosis has been the subject of a growing body of research Read the rest of this entry »

The severity of first heart attacks has dropped significantly in the United States - propelling a decline in coronary heart disease deaths, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
"This landmark study suggests that better prevention and better management in the hospital have contributed to the reduction in deaths," said Merle Myerson, M.D., Ed.D., lead author Read the rest of this entry »

Cobalis Corp. (OTC:CLSC), a pharmaceutical biotech Company specializing in the development of anti-allergy medications, announced the planned marketing launch of the flagship anti-allergy product PreHistin™ after approval in Federal Court in Santa Ana, CA on Jan. 13, 2009. The launch of PreHistin™ is scheduled for February 2009, and will enable the company to be discharged from Chapter 11.
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Americans are feeling more stress
than they did six months ago, according to a new national stress study. The
survey of 1,000 men and women, ages 18 and older, revealed that 47 percent
of respondents currently feel more stress than they did six months ago. And
no surprise, the #1 source of stress reported is personal finance concerns,
the top response for almost half (49%) of those surveyed. Surprisingly,
international unrest, Read the rest of this entry »

America’s financial crises is fueling chronic stress and limiting some people’s ability to think clearly, control emotions and regulate bodily functions in a healthy manner. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Josh Klapow, Ph.D., says now Read the rest of this entry »

A new study from Indiana University suggests that even meager levels of physical activity can improve the mood of people with serious mental illnesses (SMI) such as bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia.
The study, published in the November issue of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, both reinforces earlier findings that people with SMI demonstrate low levels of physical activity and Read the rest of this entry »

For men, especially older men, dieting may help reduce the risk of gum disease more than for women, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and other institutions.
The study, published in the journal Nutrition , also provides the latest clue to a powerful link between chronic inflammation and poor health, according to Mark Reynolds, DDS, PhD, associate professor at the Dental Read the rest of this entry »

A new study from the US found that patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which is sometimes accompanied by pain in leg muscles,
improved their walking endurance and quality of life by taking part in a treadmill walking exercise that also helped patients who did not have the
classic symptoms of pain in the legs.
The study was the work of Dr Mary M McDermott, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues, and is
published in Read the rest of this entry »

Of the orphaned youth who are heading households in rural Rwanda can be
classified as depressed, according to a report released on September 1,
2008 in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,
one
of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Rwanda has one of the largest groups of orphans in the world, a result
of the 1994 genocide and the epidemic of HIV infection. According to
background Read the rest of this entry »

Patients with chronic smoker’s bronchitis often suffer from increased
pressure in the blood vessels supplying the lung (pulmonary
hypertension). The blood pressure increases further during exercise
and can lead to severe limitation of physical activity.
In patients with other diseases Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Francis Lee, a psychiatrist and scientist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has received a commendation by the president of the United States in the form of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the White House Office of Read the rest of this entry »

Actelion Ltd (SWX: ATLN) announced that Tracleer® (bosentan), a dual endothelin receptor antagonist, has been approved in the European Union for the treatment of patients with mildly symptomatic pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH WHO functional class FC II). Since 2002, Tracleer® has been approved and available Read the rest of this entry »

TheraGenetics Limited, a personalized medicine diagnostics company that is developing and commercializing a portfolio of pharmacogenetic diagnostic tests to guide and improve the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, announced that it has completed an agreement with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Ontario, Canada, to license intellectual property related to methods and kits for determining the susceptibility Read the rest of this entry »

Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than veterans without PTSD, according to a study led by Pia Heppner, Ph.D., psychologist with the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs of San Diego, VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health (CESAMH). The study will be published online January 8 Read the rest of this entry »

Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal "smart" brain material. Their results, published in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, are a promising step forward in the search to find ways to "bypass" faulty brain wiring.
The research shows that carbon nanotubes, which, like neurons, are highly electrically conductive, Read the rest of this entry »

REGiMMUNE Corporation, a privately held biopharmaceutical company
focused on developing technologies and products for immune disorders,
today announced that it has received two separate grants totaling
more than $12 million from the Japan Science and Technology Agency
(JST) and from National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO).
Under terms outlined in the five-year grant from JST, REGiMMUNE will
develop Read the rest of this entry »

NicOx S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris: COX) announced that the third pivotal phase 3 study for naproxcinod in patients with OA of the hip showed a highly statistically significant result (p Read the rest of this entry »