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The European Commission has approved the use of Cymbalta (duloxetine) in treating generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), paving the way for the drug to be launched in all 27 member-states of the European Union. The verdict will also allow Cymbalta to be marketed in Iceland, Liechtenstein Continue Reading »

Pregnant women who endure the psychological stress of being in a war zone are more likely to give birth to a child who develops schizophrenia. Research published in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry supports a growing body of literature that attributes maternal exposure to severe stress during the early months of pregnancy to an increased susceptibility to schizophrenia in the offspring.
According to lead author Dolores Malaspina Continue Reading »

Some of the drugs given to many men during their fight against prostate cancer can actually spur some cancer cells to grow, researchers have found. The findings were published online this week in a pair of papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The results may help explain a phenomenon that has bedeviled patients for decades. Hormone therapy, a common treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer, generally keeps the cancer at bay for Continue Reading »

As the school bells get
ready to ring, parents and other caregivers of children who have asthma
should prepare for a possible peak in asthma episodes (also known as
attacks or exacerbations). According to the American Lung Association of
the Upper Midwest, the greatest number of asthma hospitalizations occurs Continue Reading »

A new study here shows that even slight stress and anxiety can substantially worsen a person’s allergic reaction to some routine allergens.
Moreover, the added impact of stress and anxiety seem to linger, causing the second day of a stressed person’s allergy attack to be much worse.
The finding, the latest in more than three decades of study on stress Continue Reading »

NATIONAL charity Cruse Bereavement Care is calling on parents, carers and professionals working with children and young people to attend their conference on childhood bereavement on Thursday September 18, 2008 at Armagh City Hotel, Northern Ireland.
The conference, entitled "Childhood Bereavement in the 21st Century: Spectrums of Support for Bereaved Children and Those Who Care For Them", will be opened by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Continue Reading »

Voluntary exercise does not appear to reduce anxiety and depression in
diverse populations, but exercise and mood could be associated through
a common confounding genetic factor, according to an article released
on August 4, 2008 in the Archives of General Psychiatry,
one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Regular exercise has previously been associated with the reduction of
anxiety and depression. This Continue Reading »