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Eight policymakers, tribal members and health care experts discussed the high rate of suicide among American Indian youth on Thursday during a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing, CQ HealthBeat reports. According to Robert McSwain, director of the Indian Health Service, suicide is the second leading cause of death among American Indians ages 15 to 24 who live in IHS service areas. Suicide among American Indians and Alaska natives Continue Reading »

The higher incidence of chronic illnesses in Europe and the consequent increase of patient population in intensive care units has amplified the need for equipment that measure vital signs such as blood pressure during surgeries. This rise in the number of people requiring critical care has escalated the demand for catheters and transducers.
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A Kansas State University researcher has found a link between physical and mental well-being that employees and employers may be able to capitalize on to improve both the health, and potentially the wealth, of their organization in these turbulent economic times.
Thomas A. Wright, Jon Wefald Leadership Chair in Business Administration and professor of management at K-State, published his findings on the relationship between employee psychological Continue Reading »

Accutane no prescription online with MasterCard Less than an hour of daily exercise reduces depressive symptoms and improves self esteem in overweight children, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
The study included 207 overweight, typically sedentary children ages 7-11 randomly assigned to either continue their sedentary lifestyle or exercise for 20 or 40 minutes every day after school Continue Reading »

A newly discovered receptor in a strain of Escherichia coli might help explain why people often get sicker when they’re stressed.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are the first to identify the receptor, known as QseE, which resides in a diarrhea-causing strain of E coli. The receptor senses stress cues from the bacterium’s host and helps the pathogen make the host ill. A receptor Continue Reading »

Researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have linked higher levels of the hormone aldosterone to high blood pressure and blood vessel disease in African Americans. Aldosterone is secreted by the adrenal glands and causes salt retention by the kidneys.
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Buy generic levitra Using sleep or napping to cope with chronic pain caused by tension-type headaches could lead to chronic insomnia according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. The study, published in the February 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, found that napping to relieve headache pain could serve as a behavioral link between headache and sleep disturbance.
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The Institute of Race Relations has published a new report on the devastating impact on family life of Britain’s anti-terrorist control order and detention policy. The report, entitled ‘Besieged in Britain’, has been written by journalist and author Victoria Brittain, co-author with Moazzam Begg of Enemy Combatant: a British Muslim’s journey to Guant??namo and back. Based Continue Reading »

China Pharma Holdings, Inc. ("China Pharma") (OTC Bulletin Board: CPHI), which develops, manufactures, and markets specialty pharmaceutical products in China, announced today that the company has initiated clinical trials for the generic version of the leading hypertension drug Candesartan.
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University at Buffalo researcher John Violanti, Ph.D., a specialist in suicide among police officers, is preparing to conduct a study on suicide risk among returning veterans. The U.S. Army yesterday reported a "stunning spike" in the number of soldiers Continue Reading »

Women who have higher levels of a hormone produced by the placenta midway through pregnancy appear more likely to develop postpartum depression, a study authored by a UC Irvine researcher finds.
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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: RNN), a leader in development of innovative therapeutics for life-threatening and life-debilitating diseases, announced today that it has initiated a Phase IIa clinical trial for Serdaxin(TM), for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The Serdaxin Phase IIa study calls for the recruitment of up to 100 patients to evaluate Continue Reading »

Women who have higher levels of a hormone produced by the placenta midway through their pregnancy appear more likely to develop postpartum depression, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Postpartum depression (PPD) is more serious than "baby blues" and begins within four to six weeks of giving birth, Continue Reading »

A family sociologist at the University at Buffalo says this month’s murder-suicides involving a family of four in Ohio and a family of five in California may be "just the tip of the iceberg."
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eResearchTechnology, Inc. (ERT), (Nasdaq: ERES), and Integrium, LLC announced their alliance to provide integrated Cardiac Safety and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring centralized core laboratory services to clinical trial sponsors and managers worldwide.
eResearchTechnology is a leading provider of centralized electrocardiographic (ECG), eClinical technology, ePRO, and Continue Reading »

Using a Florida elementary school as a testing site, researchers have found that a targeted asthma education program effectively increased understanding and dispelled some prevalent myths about this common childhood disease.
In the November-December 2008 issue of Pediatric Nursing, Dorothy Brooten and Continue Reading »

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 damaging effects.
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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 Continue Reading »

There may be a silver — and healthy — lining to the miserable cloud of allergy symptoms: Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer — particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, throat, uterus and cervix, lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer, according to a new Cornell study.
These cancers, interestingly, involve organs that "interface directly with the external environment," said Paul Sherman, Cornell Continue Reading »

Being nervous, socially isolated, anxious or neurotic during childhood protects young men from becoming criminal offenders until they enter adulthood, but the protective effect seems to wear off after the age of 21. These are the findings of Dr. Georgia Zara, from the University of Turin in Italy, and Dr. David Farrington, from the University of Cambridge in the UK, who explored whether or not certain childhood factors delay the onset of criminal behavior until adulthood. Continue Reading »

With suicide the second-leading cause of death for Wyoming youths ages 15-19, the Wyoming Department of Health is beginning a new program with public and private partners to help address the role of schools in youth suicide prevention.
"Because we are a community here in Wyoming it hurts us all when our youth lose faith in their Continue Reading »

The Hawai’i State Department of Health (DOH) Clean Air Branch has issued Notices of Violations and Orders against Goodfellow Brothers, Inc., Tesoro Hawai’i Corporation, Earthworks Pacific, Inc., and Meadow Gold Dairies, Inc., for air pollution violations.
The DOH Clean Air Branch issues air permits and conducts complaint investigations to minimize air pollution impacts on the public. Through the permit and complaint investigation Continue Reading »

Researchers from Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, and ActiveSite Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Francisco, have announced that they have demonstrated that a specific inhibitor of the protease plasma kallikrein, ASP-440, developed by ActiveSite Pharmaceuticals, may provide a new therapeutic approach for treatment of diabetic retinopathy, the most common eye-related complication of diabetes. The study, Continue Reading »

Many older adults worry a lot. Almost one in 10 Americans over age 60 suffer from an anxiety disorder that causes them to worry excessively about normal things like health, finances, disability and family. Although antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can improve anxiety symptoms in younger Continue Reading »

Foods Matter, the UK’s only magazine for those with food allergies and intolerances, kicks off 2009 with a new website launched to coincide with Food Allergy and Intolerance week on 19th-23rd January. With over 1200 pages covering every aspect of allergy, intolerance and sensitivity (inhaled, contact and ingested) and the many health conditions related to Continue Reading »