21 Aug 2008
An innovative study appearing in the August issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine examined, for the first time, if noseless bicycle saddles would be an effective intervention for alleviating deleterious health effects, erectile dysfunction and groin numbness, caused by bicycling on the traditional saddle with a protruding nose extension. Read the rest of this entry »
20 Aug 2008
A new treatment programme for cancer patients with clinical depression can significantly boost their quality of life according to new research published in the Lancet.
Cancer Research UK scientists devised the treatment programme which offers patients one-to-one sessions with specially trained cancer nurses to help them Read the rest of this entry »
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 care costs for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) versus depression. This study, supported by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., was presented at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Read the rest of this entry »
19 Aug 2008
Mom and Dad are going to flip out over my 3.3 GPA and failure to land a top internship.
Such anxieties, common among college students, can harm self-esteem and make it more difficult to adjust to school. But a new University of Central Florida study has found that students’ anxieties often are based on exaggerated perceptions of what their parents expect.
The problem, UCF psychologist Kimberly Renk says, is that many parents and students hold different perceptions Read the rest of this entry »
19 Aug 2008
A paper by Giovanni A. Fava and associates of the University of Bologna published in the April issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics summarizes the evidence which supports the seriousness of agoraphobia as an invalidating disease. At the same time it questions the excessive emphasis on panic which has been attributed in the past decade and the role of pharmaceutical industry in this attribution.
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