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PTSD After Childbirth (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
HEALTH CARE Published on Friday, November 20, 2009 Carondelet Health Network has received a $35,000 grant to help it identify and support mood disorders in pregnant and postpartum women. The grant was awarded through Project HOPE (Healthy Optimistic Perinatal Experience) and funded by the Child Abuse Prevention License Plate Program. “Mood disorders around childbirth impact several generations,”...
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Why Dont You Blog? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Echoing the prohibition that hung round the great depression, the current global economic crisis seems to be encouraging people to ban things, almost at random. From New Scientist : THE US Food and Drug Administration is unimpressed by the fad for drinks that contain a double hit – alcohol and caffeine. Unless makers supply the FDA with scientific evidence that the drinks are safe they could...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The pharmaceutical industry has taken almost two years to disseminate important information Once your medicines regulator decides it should change the side-effect warnings contained in the patient information of a drug taken by millions of people, how long do you think it would take for that change to be implemented? In February 2008 the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published...
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Chasing the Title (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The answer according to a recent study is both yes and no. It also appears that most of the negative impacts are relegated to boys rather than girls. For males, taking part in team sports was associated with fighting and binge drinking, but also linked with lower levels of smoking and depression. For females, taking part in sports was associated with lower levels of fighting, depression, smoking, drug...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
First study to quantify savingsPurchasing prescription drugs in a three-month supply rather than a one-month supply has long been regarded as a way to reduce the cost of drugs for patients and third-party payers. New research from the University of Chicago quantifies the savings for the first time.An analysis of 26,852 prescriptions filled for 395 different drugs from 2000-2005 showed that patients...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Patients who received telephone-delivered collaborative care for treatment of depression after coronary artery bypass graft surgery reported greater improvement in measures of quality of life, physical functioning and mood than patients who received usual care, according to a study in the November 18 issue of JAMA. The study is being released early online because of its presentation at an American...
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The Human Future (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
My colleague who runs the LupronVictimsHub site alerted me to this online petition which people can sign. Over 1000 emails and letters have already been sent to Congress for this purpose: The purpose of this petition is to warn others regarding the drug Lupron (Leupolide Acetate) mfg. by Takeda/Abbott Pharmaceuticals in the hope that further long-term safety studies are done before it disables or kills...
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Integrity Way Halfway House (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Drugs are known to alter human thinking and make people increasingly dependent on them. Once a person become dependent, he or she starts to develop cravings and starts to go to any lengths to take drugs. This is a road which leads to devastation and doom, as the person finds no other alternative to fuel his existence, apart from drugs. However, it is not certainly an end-all' for such a person, there...
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Integrity Way Halfway House (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Drug addiction is never a good thing; so many lives have been lost and people impoverished through this problem. When we talk about excess drug consumption or addiction, we do not mean just illegal drugs sold in the dark alleys and lanes, but also over-use of legally prescribed medication. The worst part about addiction is that a person does not know that he or she is addicted to it; they just keep...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The search continues for a pill that will lift a woman’s libido BACK in the 1990s a drug firm called Pfizer thought it had a treatment for angina. Unfortunately, the new medicine failed its clinical trials. But a curious side-effect was seen in those trials—and Viagra was born. It has helped make Pfizer into a pharmaceutical powerhouse and, since then, people have wondered if what is sauce...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.
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CanadaPharmacyNews.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From CBC News: Researchers are hailing a new drug called flibanserin as a possible remedy for sexual dysfunction in women. Originally created to treat women suffering from depression, the pill was later found to increase the number of sexual encounters and overall sexual satisfaction among women who have hypoactive sexual desire disorder. HSDD is a controversial dysfunction that not everyone in the...
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FuturePundit (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The direction of causation is not clear but a little bit of anxiety might be good for your health. Depressed smokers must have terrible life expectancy. A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking. Utilising a unique link between a survey of over...
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Mobile Reviews (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A drug that failed to pull women out of depression could work as their alternative to Viagra, experts believe. Lead North American investigator John Thorp, analysed tests of flibanserin, an active ingredient in Viagra along with sildenafil. The researcher found that though the drug fell short of helping women beat their blues, it did give them “an [...]
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My Green Meadows (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
clipped from www.independent.co.uk One of the world’s oldest controversies – over the nature of female sexual desire – is set to be reopened today by the discovery of a drug described as “Viagra for women”. Doctors testing a new anti-depressant found it was useless as a mood brightener – but was unexpectedly [...]
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wellbeingnewseditor | 18/07/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > Under the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, a refugee is a person who has left the country of their nationality ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion’ and is unable or unwilling to return. In the UK, an asylum seeker is a person who has applied...
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ifp | 02/06/2009
The people of Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur (PACA) are being consulted on a name change for the region. Tired of being responsible for an acronym, the President of PACA Michel Vauzelle has decided it is time to change the name of the region, and he has sought the views of its inhabitants to help him decide. He has barely made a secret of the fact that his own personal preference is the more economical
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