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Yale University researchers report in the journal Nature Genetics that they have discovered that rare genetic variants can be associated with a dramatically lower risk of developing high blood pressure in the general population.
The insight that rare mutations may collectively play a large part in the development of common yet complex diseases such as hypertension also has implications for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases Read more…

This meeting will review the current challenges to managing stress, the impact of legislation and good practice advice to employers in relation to fitness for work and rehabilitation. The key areas of discussion Read more…

Socially successful children tend to have fewer symptoms of anxiety or depression, while children with problems such as anxiety and depression tend to have difficulties forming relationships and being accepted by friends. However, it is difficult to determine whether the anxiety and depression lead to the social problems, or vice versa. New research suggests that Read more…

"Depression may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s", The Daily Telegraph says. It reports on a study that followed more than 900 Catholic clergy for up to 13 years. The study found that those who developed the disease had more symptoms of depression at the beginning of the study.
The main aim of the research was to look at changes in depressive symptoms in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. There is a known association between dementia Read more…

In honor of the 11th
annual Food Allergy Awareness Week, May 11-17, The Food Allergy &
Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) unveiled its new advocacy initiative "Five Steps
Buy synthroid without prescription Forward for Food Allergy" at an educational briefing on Capitol Hill.
This initiative addresses the challenges of food allergy and is aimed
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Men’s Health News
Diabetes in men has a direct effect on fertility, a scientist told the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday 9 July).
Dr. Con Mallidis from Queen’s University, Belfast, UK, said that, despite the prevailing view that it had little effect on male reproductive function, the Belfast group had shown that diabetes caused DNA damage in sperm.
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Ergonex Pharma
announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
granted orphan drug designation to Terguride for the treatment of pulmonary
arterial hypertension (PAH). Terguride is currently being evaluated for PAH
in a pivotal Phase II trial in Europe.
"The FDA’s grant of orphan drug designation to Terguride for PAH
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Health minister Ivan Lewis announced the 32 sites who will
begin to roll out talking therapies around the country.
Each of the 32 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) will receive a share of the
??33 million first instalment of new money announced for the purpose
by Health Secretary Alan Johnson on World Mental Health Day last year
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Australian researchers have discovered that a mutated version of the BRCA-2 gene known to lead to breast and ovarian cancer, is also a culprit in prostate cancer in men.
The researchers from the Australian and New Zealand consortium kConFab which investigates familial breast cancer, say they suspect that as many as 2,000 Australian men possibly have the gene mutation; Read more…

BioMedEcon, a leading provider of health economics and outcomes research, presented findings from a landmark nine-year retrospective claims analysis that compared the median per-patient health Read more…

Over the past 40 years there has been a dramatic rise in the number of people suffering from asthma, eczema, hayfever and food allergies and this ‘allergy epidemic’ has particularly affected children.
Buy generic propecia Allergy Week UK takes place from Monday 19 May to Friday 23 May and highlights this chronic debilitating condition affecting many children and adults.
The Read more…

Biovail Corporation (NYSE: BVF) (TSX: BVF) announced that it has received Approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its New Drug Application (NDA) for Aplenzin™ (formerly known as BVF-033), a once-daily formulation of bupropion hydrobromide developed by Biovail for the treatment of depression in adults. Read more…

Men’s Health News
Counting the number of tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer can accurately predict how well they are responding to treatment, new results show.
At the ESMO Conference Lugano (ECLU) organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology, researchers showed that changes in the number of circulating tumor cells Read more…

Research into the correlations between allergies and the development of
tumours - and possible benefits for future cancer treatments - has finally
become an established research discipline in its own right. That was the
conclusion at the 2nd International AllergoOncology Symposium, which took
place in Vienna at the weekend. Buy propecia Read more…

New research has shown that 1 in 10 men experience erectile dysfunction
(ED) and as many as 1 in 5 men suffer a loss of libido, as a result of
work-related stress.
These latest figures suggest that 90% of men have shown at least one
clinical feature of stress due Read more…

High blood pressure in childhood is associated with higher blood pressure or hypertension in adulthood, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their analyses of previously published blood pressure tracking studies over the last four decades show a consistent relationship Read more…

The progression from acute stress disorder to post-traumatic stress
disorder may be prevented by exposure-based therapy, in which trauma
survivors are guided to relive a troubling event. These reults were
published in an article released on June 2, 2008 in the Archives
of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Acute stress disorder, sometimes called shock, involves the development
of a strong stress response after Read more…

Men’s Health News
Erectile dysfunction is always a matter of the heart, but new research shows that more than romance is at stake. Two new studies of men with type 2 diabetes found that erectile dysfunction (ED) was a powerful early warning sign for serious heart disease, including heart attack and death.
One of the studies also showed Read more…

The results of the landmark
ONTARGET(TM) trial have demonstrated that MICARDIS(R) (telmisartan), a
second-generation angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB), is equally
effective as the current standard, ramipril, in reducing the risk of
cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke and hospitalization for
congestive heart failure in a broad cross-section of high-risk
cardiovascular Read more…

Northstar Neuroscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTR), a developer of medical devices for the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders, announced that long-term data for both the PROSPECT feasibility study of cortical stimulation for depression and the EVEREST pivotal trial studying cortical stimulation for arm/hand disability post stroke were presented this Read more…

At the 23rd Annual European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress, results were presented which added evidence that Levitra® (vardenafil HCI) works very well in men with dyslipidemia.(1) The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in about 400 men showed that Levitra® significantly improved the ability of men with erectile dysfunction (ED) and high cholesterol, to achieve and Read more…

Men’s Health News
Buy cipro without prescription A simple blood test may help doctors better predict whether prostate cancer will recur or spread in patients who have undergone surgery for the disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
In a study published in the June 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, UT Southwestern scientists identified a panel of seven biomarkers that can predict Read more…

Men’s Health News
Normal developmental changes during the teenage years leave young adult men at higher risk of heart disease than their female counterparts, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
"Women’s protective advantage against heart disease starts young," said Antoinette Moran, M.D., lead author of the study and professor and Read more…

Over five million of the 13 million hay fever sufferers across Britain could be taking
inappropriate medicines, putting their health at risk. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of
(RPSGB) is encouraging people experiencing the symptoms of hay fever to visit
their community pharmacist after new research revealed that the public often misdiagnose the
condition and fail Read more…

A new study published in the
current Journal of the American Society of Hypertension demonstrates that
the hypertension treatment olmesartan medoxomil was effective in reversing
the narrowing of the arteries that occurs in patients with hypertension.
The study, titled VIOS (Vascular Improvement with Olmesartan medoxomil
Study) was a one-year, Read more…