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First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...lives. Treating these disorders involves methods geared toward making the behavior go away, or become extinct, but the molecular mechanisms underlying the extinction process are not well understood. However, Tsai said, studies have shown that some of the molecular machinery that initially encodes the tr...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

...00 per year. In the meantime, state tourism seems geared up for a depressing season, which begins mid October. Hundreds of visit visas and domestic trips are being cancelled due to the Chikungunya scare. The bad name is especially worrying because Kerala has always being known for its clean environment an...

Moves To Improve War Veterans Health Taken

...xpanded from two to five years. The bill, which is geared toward veterans from the Persian Gulf War through present and future conflicts, aims to help those veterans who have health problems that appear years after they have completed military service. The committee by voice vote approved a substitute ame...

Ayurveda Resorts in Kerala Gear Up for the Monsoon Season

...ealth Resort near Kovalam, said his resort was all geared up for the monsoon rush. "We cater to tourists who come for specially for treatment and not just for sightseeing. For those who have a time constraint, we get their medical files early and study their problems in detail even before they arrive. So ...

CMPMedica Adds Oncology Search Engine to SearchMedica.com

...ns more than 10,000,000 results, most of which are geared toward consumers. The same search on SearchMedica Oncology nets fewer than 75,000 results from credible sources of reliable medical information. Results are organized into categories that help oncology professionals quickly find the information or ot...

Health Workers in Developing Countries Undermines Essential Services

...also said that medical research and development is geared toward the needs of wealthier nations, while the health care needs of developing countries are overlooked. "Huge gaps in health outcomes are growing wider, and these gaps divide rather precisely along the lines of poverty and wealth," she said, add...

Energy Supplement Under Study for Parkinson's Disease

...ibitors that forestall breakdown of dopamine – are geared toward treating symptoms. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter critical to movement, is depleted in Parkinson’s. Researchers hope newer therapies, including creatine, can be added to the mix to help slow the disease. The creatine study will enroll patients...

Federal Plan: Strategies to Cut Down Wait Times for Children’s Surger

...n of the provinces. The15-month pilot project is geared to collate accurate data regarding six crucial surgical areas. The areas delineated are cardiac and cancer care, neurology, sight, spinal deformity and dental treatment which needs anesthesia. The second stage of the project will concentrate on evo...

Cold and Flu Rampant in Beijing

... percent have come down with flu. Hospitals have geared up to face the influx of patients. "Not everyone has flu, some just have a common cold. The ratio is not much higher than last year's and will drop in the last 10 days of the month." Liu Zejun, director of the CDC said. Experts have advised people ...

Homeless Youths Need Health Insurance

...patient setting. There is a need for interventions geared toward this group in facilitating health insurance coverage. For instance, homeless shelter operators can help them apply for MediCal. Source-Newswise...

Watching With Intent to Repeat Ignites Key Learning Area of Brain

...ng at the University of Oregon. Frey’s interest is geared toward improvements in rehabilitation for individuals suffering brain or bodily injury. “Teaching a physical skill often involves someone demonstrating the essential action components after which the learner tries to reproduce what has been observe...

Ontario Plans a New Centre for Disease Control

...andemic, the province of Ontario ,in Canada,is all geared to set up a centre for disease control.// The officials, plan to form the centre on the same lines as the Centre for Disease Control, situated in Atlanta, U.S. Canadian media, quoting government sources, reported on Sunday that the provincial gove...

Kerala: God’s Own Country Prevails Against AID

...tate is in the frontline now, taking the lead. All geared to focus on meeting the goals of Phase 111 of NACP, KSACS intends to take HIV prevention programmes to grass root levels. MST...

Poor diabetics: bitter times and worse times with no sweet respite

...he needs of diverse groups; and increasing budget geared towards compensating existing inequalities. MST...

Review Opens Bag of Tricks for Reducing Pain from Children’s Shot

...r health professionals to have a few ready to use, geared toward different age groups, Uman said. "Ideally, we would recommend that health care professionals have various psychological interventions available, in order to have a variety of developmentally appropriate options for both children and adolescent...

Lack of treatment for cocaine users

... offered by traditional services, which tend to be geared to heroin-related problems." GYT...

Teen Smoking Cessation Programs Improve Quit Rates

Smoking cessation programs geared to teen smokers are effective, a new review of studies has found. Teens who participate are more likely to kick the tobacco// habit than those who attempt to quit on their own. 'Most teens who are smokers do want to quit, but they need a lot of hel...

Preventive Action Intensified to Control Chikungunya Spread

...lth Department has announced that it is adequately geared with a meticulous plan, encompassing both prevention as well as // control measures, to counter a potential chikungunya outbreak. Presently, four districts in Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha, Ernakulum and Kozhikode have reported the chikunguny...

NDDB Launches Economical Hepatitis-B Vaccine

...ddressing the media, indicated that the company is geared up to enable varieties of human vaccines, to combat measles, DPT, and TT. The good news is that the price of the Hepatitis-B Vaccine would be at least 40% lower than any of the currently available vaccines in the market. IIL would be harnessing its...

Sanofi-Aventis sets the ball rolling for trials of H7N1 bird flu vaccine

...ne for a variation in the strain, so that they are geared up to tackle even a deadly outbreak....

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