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Psychosocial Support for Cancer Survivors Needs Strengthening

... across the United States. They often are the only mental care and external disease information resource cancer patients have. While previous studies have shown about one in five women with early stage breast cancer use support services in the year following treatment (18 percent), little is known regardi...

NIH Awards Emory $3.6 Million for Schizophrenia Gene Research

...or his discoveries regarding this frequent form of mental retardation. The Emory scientists are collaborating with Ann E. Pulver, ScD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University, who collected the samples to be tested....

Heart Attack Risk Increased by Unfair Treatment

...," and those of 5 or 6 as "high." The volunteers mental and physical health was tracked for an average of ...h significantly higher levels of poor physical and mental health. The authors conclude that fairness is key to promoting a healthier society. The study is...

Dont Worry- Be Good To Your Heart

...a number of studies have looked at the toll that mental stress takes on cardiac health, but most have focused on depression, not anxiety. The few studies that have examined the role that anxiety might play in heart disease have usually measured anxiety only once, and not over the course of time. The stu...

Risk of Heart Attack, Death High Among Extremely Anxious Patients

... both in Boston. Earlier studies have shown that mental strain and depression have harsh effects on the heart and blood vessels, but until now there has been little information on the cutting effects of anxiety or the advantages of lessening anxiety in due course. For the study, Dr. Blatt and his collea...

Feelings Of Injustice At Work Can Lead To A Heart Attack

...hey were also observed to have poorer physical and mental health overall. The researchers say the study reinforces the need for fair treatment in the workplace. It also provided a view into which people were most likely to find life unjust, although the results were adjusted to account for factors like ho...

Impact of Periodontal Health High With Smoking and Sleeping

... tobacco use, hours of sleep, nutritional balance, mental stress, hours worked and eating breakfast. The study found that the number one lifestyle factor that independently impacted the progression of periodontal disease was smoking; hours of sleep closely followed. Over 41 percent of study participan...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

...r being suppressed and undiagnosed. Aging, loss of mental acuity, the death of friends or spouses, and other factors can trigger or exacerbate symptoms as well. Standardized tests can be a useful part of an assessment, but they are no substitute for a thorough clinical assessment by a trained professional, ...

Coverage for Childrens Mental Illness Reduces Out-of-Pocket Spending

...regulations requiring equal insurance coverage for mental illness does not increase usage and reduces out-of... expenditures for families who have children with mental illness, a Yale School of Medicine study reports in the journal Health Services Research. Prior re...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...ain damage in developing fetuses and mild tremors, mental disorders, motor and emotional disturbances, even death, in exposed adults. Even the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes (SCMC) has taken a strict note of the existing mercury contamination in an around the HLL factory site and fix...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

Any conflict situation inevitably gives rise to mental health disorders. Not many seem to have turned the...been asking for better medical facilities to treat mental illnesses. Apart from the OPD facility at the Psychiatric Hospital, the OPD facility kept available ...

Common Pain Killer may Reduce the Risk of Brain Damage in Premature Babies

...ing many everlastingly affected by cerebral palsy, mental retardation, and seizures. "Stabilizing the blood vessels right before the baby is born is a tremendous opportunity to save the baby from potentially lifelong complications," said Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the University o...

Workplace Stress Leads to Rising Suicide Rate in Japan

...workers who received compensation for work-induced mental illness was 205, also a record and up 61 percent f...d. The number of applications for compensation for mental illness or suicide also rose sharply, to 819 cases, a 24 percent jump. "Before, people tried to hi...

Bali Bombings Helped Improve Trauma Care

... that health specialists were able to offer better mental health support to the victims of the 2005 Bali bo...was also recipients of vital personal support from mental health nurses. Says Anthony Guscott from Top End Mental Health Services, which provides in-patient...

Kalam Stressed the Need for Stem Cell Research to Cure Neuro Disorder

...working to find out the genetic reason behind such mental illnesses. He expressed his willingness to work wi...m said that scientifically the solution on curbing mental illness could be found out but it would be a challenging task. He said genetic research should be ...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

...children met the strict criteria. The children's mental acuity and social skills were assessed using a var...s should make people think more about physical and mental health conditions that interfere with children's development," Waber opines. On a positive note, t...

Kids With Both Autism and ADHD Four Times More Likely to Bully

...nal support services, such as from a behavioral or mental health specialist, depending on the severity of symptoms. These services may be available through community based organizations or from the broader health care system," she added. The study is published in the journal, Ambulatory Pediatrics....

Adolescents Brains Fully Develop Between 10-12 Years

...sts to determine their overall IQ, verbal ability, mental processing speed, spatial ability, memory, fine motor dexterity, psychosocial function, reading and calculation ability, and other measures of cognitive function. Most have returned two more times so that their development can be tracked. Results s...

Trauma Exposure can Affect Brain Function Several Years After Event

...se subtle changes could increase susceptibility to mental health problems later on. Evidence that trauma c...a exposure can lead to subsequent vulnerability to mental health disorders years after the trauma. This research is giving us clues about the biology underlyi...

Coenzyme Q10 Does Not Improve Parkinsons Disease Symptoms

...disease symptoms and their effects on physical and mental functioning, the authors write. Our study further demonstrated that 300 milligrams per day of nanoparticular CoQ10 is safe and well tolerated in patients with Parkinsons disease already taking various antiparkinsonian medications. Since we did not ...

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