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(NARSAD, The Mental health Research Association) Prizes awarded to six prominent scientists whose investigations have led to significant strides in the understanding and treatment of mental illness. The prizes will be awarded on Friday, Oct. 17, at NARSAD's annual new york gala.

(American Physiological Society) Eating too much fructose can induce leptin resistance, a condition that can easily lead to becoming overweight when combined with a high-fat, high-calorie diet, according to a new study with rats. This is the first study to show that leptin resistance can develop as a result of high fructose consumption and that leptin resistance can develop silently, that is, with little indication that it is happening.

REGULAR exercise can reverse the decline in brain power linked with ageing and dementia, a new report has revealed.

THE Scottish public probably breathed a sigh of relief last week with the news that rates of MRSA and Clostridium difficile are falling in our hospitals.

A NEW research centre which will lead the fight against MRSA and other superbugs is to be established in Scotland as part of an £8.5 million boost for biomedical sciences.

HOHHOT, China (Reuters) - China's dairy heartland promised it has banished a toxic chemical from its milk and launched a media campaign to restore its reputation after thousands of children were poisoned.

Almost two-thirds of people in 26 countries say higher food and energy prices have affected them "a great deal", a BBC report finds.

A new study identifies differences between genetic variants of HIV that are associated with HIV-associated dementia (HAD). Background read more

AP - Monkeys taught to play a computer game were able to overcome wrist paralysis with an experimental device that might lead to new treatments for patients with stroke and spinal cord injury.

A report released this week by the Oklahoma State Department of health (OSDH) suggests that as many as a third of elementary and middle School students in Oklahoma are involved in bullying. The report presents findings from a 2005 survey, the Oklahoma Anti-Bullying Survey, of 7,848 third, fifth, and seventh grade students from 85 school districts. Fourteen percent of the students reported that they had been victims of bullying, 12 percent had been bullies, and seven percent had been both a bully and a victim. read more