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A new study finds Vietnam veterans who experienced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were twice as likely to die from heart disease as veterans without PTSD. In a study published in the July issue of Psychosomatic medicine, Senior Investigator Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH the examined the prevalence of heart disease, PTSD and other problems [...]

For the 5.7 million Americans with bipolar disorder, finding effective treatments can pose a serious challenge. But recent research has shown promise for expanding the number of medicines that can be used to prevent the manic 'highs' and depressed 'lows' that characterize this condition.read more

Michel Lotrowska, a Brazil representative for Medecins Sans Frontieres \' Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines , said that an estimated 23,400 people in Brazil use Kaletra, making it the ... Last Modified: August 19, 2005, 7:56 pm

You might have seen board-certified internal medicine physician Pam Peeke on the Discovery health network discussing women's health issues.

The baby's smile that gladdens a mother's heart also lights up the reward centers of her brain, said Baylor College of medicine researchers in a report that appears in the journal Pediatrics. The finding could help scientists figure out the special mother-infant bond and how it sometimes goes wrong, said Dr.

Vietnam veterans who experienced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were twice as likely to die from heart disease as veterans without PTSD, a new Geisinger study finds. In a study published in the July issue of Psychosomatic medicine, Geisinger Senior Investigator Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH examined the prevalence of heart disease, PTSD and other problems in more than 4,000 Vietnam veterans.

Hamburg - Detecting clogged arteries in time could prevent many strokes, some 60 per cent of which originate not in the brain but in the neck arteries and heart, according to the German Society for Ultrasound in medicine (DEGUM) in Hamburg. People at...

Munich - Breastfeeding mothers can cut down on their baby's crying by recognising promptly when the little one is hungry, noted the Munich-based Association of Paediatrics and Adolescent-medicine Professionals (BVKJ). Stretching, sucking motions, and...

Cancer researchers Dr. Martin Janz and Dr. Stephan Mathas of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charité - University medicine Berlin, Germany, have been honored with the Curt Meyer Memorial Prize for their research on Hodgkin's lymphoma. They received the prize, worth 10,000 euros, on July 4, 2008 in Berlin for their findings published in Nature Immunology* from Professor Peter Schlag, president of the Berlin Cancer Society (Charité, MDC).

(Elsevier health Sciences) Vaccinating infants and toddlers is an almost universal practice in the United States. Vaccines to prevent flu are a regular part of medical care for senior citizens and at-risk patients. But, according to a study published in the August 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine, the US health care system is not very effective in getting vaccines to the adolescent population.