Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), July 28 - August 1, 2009, the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that after a 6-month behavioral weight loss program, depressed patients not only lost 8% of their initial weight but also reported significant improvements in their symptoms of depression, as well as reductions (more…)

It would make sense that teenage mothers have a lot of psychological stress in their lives, but a new study shows that the distress comes before the pregnancy, not because of it.
"Psychological distress does not appear to be caused by teen childbearing, nor does it cause teen childbearing, except apparently among girls from poor households," said Stefanie Mollborn, Ph.D., an assistant professor of sociology at the Institute of Behavioral (more…)

A method of reducing the impact or symptoms of anaphylactic shock has been identified by university researchers.
The team from Glasgow are the first in the world to pinpoint a molecule which amplifies the allergic reaction and have successfully developed a biological agent to reduce the symptoms.
The breakthrough could lead to a huge reduction in the number of fatal cases of anaphylactic shock across the world.
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Cyberonics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYBX) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") has approved the company’s proposal to amend the protocol of its D-21 post-approval dosing study in depression patients treated with VNS Therapy(TM).
The company submitted a proposal in November 2008 to reduce the number of study subjects from 460 to 330 and completed enrollment of 331 study subjects in February 2009. With this decision from (more…)

We’ve all been asked at routine visits to the doctor to record our family’s history with medical problems like cancer, diabetes or heart disease. But when it comes to mental disorders, usually mum’s the word.
New findings by researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) make a strong case for changing that status quo. Generic zocor pills no prescription They (more…)