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Reports of sounds with drug-like effects have some parents spooked.

Hong Kong Department Of health Department of Health (DH) urged members of the public not to buy or consume a slimming product named as 'Yu Xiu Tang Yang Yan Shou Shen Jiao Nang' because it was found to have contained an undeclared drug ingredient.The department launched investigation into the product after receiving a report involving a 20-year-old woman who was admitted to Princess Margaret Hospital on July 24 for headache. She had a history of taking the above product which was obtained from a friend. Further investigation is in progress.read more

Using brain imaging, NIMH researchers have produced direct evidence that people prone to depression -- even when they're feeling well -- have abnormal mood-regulating brain circuitry. This makes them vulnerable to relapse when levels of certain key brain chemical messengers plummet.Wayne Drevets, M.D., of the NIMH Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, Gregor Hasler, M.D., now at University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues reported on their positron emission tomography (PET) scan study in the May 2008 Archives of General Psychiatry.read more

In the United Kingdom, there is a row over a deaf baby who has been denied two (bilateral) cochlear implants. Several UK papers are reporting the case. At first, the...

About one million to 1.1 million Americans are thought to be living with HIV, with the annual infecting rate reaching 56,300, according to a government report released on Thursday.

Estrogen may ease psychosisEstrogen may ease the symptoms of schizophrenia in women with severe disease, Australian researchers reported Tuesday in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The Minister for health and Children Mary Harney TD welcomed the report of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance entitled 'Building a culture of patient safety'. The Minster said 'This is the first report of its kind and it makes far reaching recommendations which when implemented will impact very positively on patients and their families.

In a new report released today, an international panel of AIDS experts calls on global leaders to aggressively expand HIV prevention programs aimed at reducing high-risk behaviors, including unsafe sex and drug use. Citing hundreds of clinical trials and observational studies, the report concludes that behavior-change programs are highly effective for preventing HIV, but do not currently reach enough people to have a decisive impact on the epidemic.

Yesterday I discussed Christina Applegate's diagnosis of breast cancer , and hundreds of reports on that news have been teeming with information - from the way she was diagnosed to what she can expect from ...

The 17th International AIDS Conference appealed Thursday for increasing the awareness of AIDS in Latin America, said a report released by the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS . The report said the Caribbean has ...