Anxiety News and Research

Latest Anxiety News and Research

Customized website is a valuable marketing tool for healthcare providers

The patient will see you now. Yes, doctors and healthcare providers, the tides are shifting. Patients who want information and want it fast are turning more and more to the Internet. They are talking to people on blogs, forums and message boards before they even call your office. Because doctors can't be everywhere at once, they should be harnessing the power of the World Wide Web to work for them. Aurora Information Technology (Aurora IT), a medical website design and medical marketing company advises that doctors and healthcare providers need to ride the wave of this trend and start spearheading these searches and conversations.

21 Oct 2009

Alberta revises its cervical cancer screening guideline

Alberta has revised its Cervical Cancer Screening Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) based on new technologies and epidemiologic evidence from Alberta and internationally.

20 Oct 2009

DCPR classification provides diagnostic criteria to evaluate psychosomatic syndromes

An investigation headed by Piero Porcelli (Bari, Italy) has yielded new insights as to what affects how a patient perceives his/her illness. It is published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

20 Oct 2009

IntegraMed America expands its Attain IVF treatment financing offerings

IntegraMed America, Inc., the nation’s leading manager of specialty outpatient healthcare facilities in the emerging, technology-focused medical niches of fertility and vein care, today announced that it has expanded its Attain™ IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) family of treatment financing offerings to include the Attain IVF Multi-Cycle Program.

20 Oct 2009

Testicular cancer survivors at risk of effective treatment

Testicular cancer survivors can face an increased risk of long-term illness, not because of the malignancy, but the highly effective treatment they receive, according to a study in the urology journal BJUI.

20 Oct 2009

Highly educated women deal less well with psychological aspects of breast cancer

Well-educated women and those who live alone are emotionally the hardest hit by breast cancer, according to the findings of a new Australian study announced during October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

20 Oct 2009

Study explores the link between LUTS and depression, anxiety disorders, sexual trauma

Depression, anxiety disorders and sexual trauma have all been implicated as risk factors in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) such as incontinence and overactive bladder.

20 Oct 2009

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals announces positive results from Phase IIa Serdaxin clinical study

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multi-indication therapeutics in CNS and oncology, today announced top-line results from a Phase IIa clinical study of Serdaxin™, its major depressive disorder (MDD) drug candidate.

20 Oct 2009

Virtual Reality Exposure Treatment to help tackle driving phobias

Researchers at The University of Manchester have recruited volunteers with a variety of driving phobias to test whether virtual reality can be used alongside conventional psychological therapies to help tackle their fears.

From The University of Manchester 20 Oct 2009

PhRMA report says nearly 1,000 life-changing medicines for diseases affecting women in development

America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies are working on nearly 1,000 life-changing medicines for diseases affecting women, according to a new report released by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The medicines are awaiting approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or are in human clinical trials.

20 Oct 2009

Therapists can help individuals to cope with mental health issues

As more Californians experience “Furlough Friday,” voluntary pay cuts and forced retirement, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) encourages you to find a therapist to cope with the mental health impact of the economic downturn.

20 Oct 2009

Federal grant for ecstasy research

A so-called "club drug" - typically not used all that often by those who take it - can still have the potential to cause a lot of damage among some users, say University of Cincinnati researchers. Trials are underway to trace the effects of ecstasy and to see who's most at risk. The study is supported by $471,000 in federal stimulus funds awarded by the National Institutes of Health and spread out over two years.

19 Oct 2009

Young adults struggle finding health care coverage

Young adults represent the largest group of uninsured people while they also increasingly report mental health issues in college.

19 Oct 2009

Schering-Plough to present data on boceprevir at the AASLD 2009 Annual Meeting

Schering-Plough announced that data on boceprevir, an investigational hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor, will be reported in an oral presentation at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Annual Meeting in Boston, Oct. 30-Nov. 3.

19 Oct 2009

Parents are concerned about the overuse of prescription medications with their children: Survey

A new nationwide survey released today reveals that just 12 percent of parents with children under the age of 18 have spoken to their child's doctor about complementary and integrative approaches to medicine, yet nearly 90 percent say they want to know more.

19 Oct 2009

Novel HIV drug to be studied in cell cultures and patients

A $6 million, five-year federal grant to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute will enable researchers to investigate a novel approach in treating HIV infection---a unique class of drugs focused on developing therapies for psychological and neurological effects in AIDS.

19 Oct 2009

FDA grants marketing approval for Elitek

Sanofi-aventis U.S. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for Elitek (rasburicase) to be used for the initial management of plasma uric acid (PUA) levels in adult patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and solid tumor malignancies who are receiving anti-cancer therapy expected to result in tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) and subsequent elevations of plasma uric acid.

19 Oct 2009

BJUI: Testicular cancer survivors face an increased risk of long-term illness due to effective treatment

19 Oct 2009

Enzo Biochem to release a new catalog dealing with epigenetics and chromatin modification

Enzo Biochem, Inc. today said that its Life Sciences subsidiary will release a new catalog dealing with “Epigenetics & Chromatin Modification” at the Society for Neuroscience’s, Neuroscience 2009 conference, beginning October 17, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois.

15 Oct 2009

Depression becomes more difficult to treat the longer it goes undiagnosed or undertreated

A new survey of 2,001 adults living with depression revealed that despite being diagnosed for an average of 12 years, many unknowingly took actions that could have sabotaged their chances of getting well. Furthermore, on average, it took about six years for respondents to seek diagnosis from a health care professional, suggesting these adults may have been coping with depression for as long as 18 years.

15 Oct 2009

Anxiety News and Research

Latest Anxiety News and Research

Customized website is a valuable marketing tool for healthcare providers

Alberta revises its cervical cancer screening guideline

DCPR classification provides diagnostic criteria to evaluate psychosomatic syndromes

IntegraMed America expands its Attain IVF treatment financing offerings

Testicular cancer survivors at risk of effective treatment

Highly educated women deal less well with psychological aspects of breast cancer

Study explores the link between LUTS and depression, anxiety disorders, sexual trauma

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals announces positive results from Phase IIa Serdaxin clinical study

Virtual Reality Exposure Treatment to help tackle driving phobias

PhRMA report says nearly 1,000 life-changing medicines for diseases affecting women in development

Therapists can help individuals to cope with mental health issues

Federal grant for ecstasy research

Young adults struggle finding health care coverage

Schering-Plough to present data on boceprevir at the AASLD 2009 Annual Meeting

Parents are concerned about the overuse of prescription medications with their children: Survey

Novel HIV drug to be studied in cell cultures and patients

FDA grants marketing approval for Elitek

BJUI: Testicular cancer survivors face an increased risk of long-term illness due to effective treatment

Enzo Biochem to release a new catalog dealing with epigenetics and chromatin modification

Depression becomes more difficult to treat the longer it goes undiagnosed or undertreated

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

Anxiety News and Research

Latest Anxiety News and Research

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

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