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Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry Launches 'Do You Mind?' Campaign to Fight Mental and Neurological Disorders

GENEVA, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --   Campaign launched during World Health Assembly, where world's health ministers gather to address the large physical and economic costs of these disorders Mental and neurological disorders (MNDs) affect 700 million people annually and account for 30 percent of global non-communicable disease (NCD) burden 'Do You Mind?' helps patients, family members,...

Researchers Able To Prevent And Cure Type 1 Diabetes In Animal Models

Melbourne researchers have identified an immune protein that has the potential to stop or reverse the development of type 1 diabetes in its early stages, before insulin-producing cells have been destroyed. The discovery has wider repercussions, as th...

Pancreatic Cancer May Be Identified By Molecular Marker From Pancreatic 'Juices'

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed a promising method to distinguish between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis - two disorders that are difficult to tell apart. A molecular marker obtained from pancreatic "juices" can identify almost...

Common Foot Deformities Like Bunions Are Inherited

A novel study reports that white men and women of European descent inherit common foot disorders, such as bunions (hallux valgus) and lesser toe deformities, including hammer or claw toe. Findings from the Framingham Foot Study - the first to estimat...

Asthma Identified As A Potential New Risk For Sleep Apnea

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have identified a potential new risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea: asthma. Using data from the National Institutes of Health (Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)-funded Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, whic...

Treating Sleep Apnea In Prediabetes Improves Glucose Levels

Optimal treatment of sleep apnea in patients with prediabetes improves blood sugar (glucose) levels and thus can reduce cardiometabolic risk, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference May 17-22, 2013 Phi...

Relationship Discovered Between Sleep Apnea And Alzheimer's Disease

A new study looking at sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and markers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and neuroimaging adds to the growing body of research linking the two. But this latest study also poses an interesting...

How Low Does Merck Need To Go? FDA Safety Concerns May Cut Suvorexant’s Dosing

FDA will ask an advisory committee whether Merck’s insomnia drug should employ the tiered dosing schedule proposed for the elderly and non-responders, but the agency seems inclined towards a dose even lower that the ones that were used in Phase III...

New Approach To Improving Treatment For Multiple Sclerosis And Other Conditions

Working with lab mice models of multiple sclerosis (MS), UC Davis scientists have detected a novel molecular target for the design of drugs that could be safer and more effective than current FDA-approved medications against MS. The findings of the r...

The Interactive Effects On Neurocognition Of Alcohol Consumption, Smoking And Age

Treatment for alcohol use disorders works best if the patient actively understands and incorporates the interventions provided in the clinic. Multiple factors can influence both the type and degree of neurocognitive abnormalities found during early a...

Asthma symptoms impair sleep quality and school performance in children

(American Thoracic Society) The negative effects of poorly controlled asthma symptoms on sleep quality and academic performance in urban schoolchildren has been confirmed in a new study.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: IRWD) today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of 10,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock. All of the shares are being offered by Ironwood. The Company will grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,575,000 shares in connection with the offering....

Mental disorders common among US children, CDC says

As many as one in five US children suffers from a mental disorder in a given year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The article, “Mental health...

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Announces Exercise in Full of Option to Purchase Additional Shares and Completion of Public Offering of Common Stock

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACAD) today announced the completion of an underwritten public offering of 9,200,000 shares of its common stock, including 1,200,000 shares sold pursuant to the full exercise of an option to purchase additional shares previously granted to the underwriters. All of the shares were offered by ACADIA at a price to the publ...

Sleep-deprived teens cause crashes, study shows

The dangers of texting while driving gets more headlines and drunk driving remains one of the main causes of automobile accidents, but a large, new study published Monday helps explain why so many teens and young adults are involved in motor accidents.

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. Announces Data Showing Latuda® (lurasidone HCl) was Associated with Low Rates of Weight and Metabolic Changes in Patients with Depressive Episodes Associated with Bipolar I Disorder

A Similar Pattern of Metabolic Changes was Observed in Patients Who Received LATUDA as Monotherapy or as Adjunctive Therapy to Mood Stabilizers Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced it will present 18 research posters on Latuda® (lurasidone HCl), an atypical antipsychotic indicated for the treatment of adult patients with schizophrenia,...

Patients Honor Dr. Rolando Sousa for Compassion

MORRISTOWN, N.J., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patients' Choice has announced that Dr. Rolando Sousa was one of a select few physicians honored with the prestigious 2012 Compassionate Doctor Certification. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130520/DC17370) Each year, nearly 100 million patients across the U.S. access websites like Vitals, UCompareHealthCare, and Patients' Ch...

Race Horses May Hold Key to Cure for Deadly Lung Disease Killing Humans, Horses, Other Domestic Animals

LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers from human and veterinary medicine want to know more about the lung disease that is killing horses, including thoroughbred horses and other domestic animals, just as it's claiming an increasing number of human lives – and are hoping the animals will hold a key to finding treatments faster for both. Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF)...

The incidence of eating disorders is increasing in the UK

More people are being diagnosed with eating disorders every year and the most common type is not either of the two most well known—bulimia or anorexia—but eating disorders not otherwise specified (eating disorders that don't quite reach the thres...

Rogers InHealth Created to Help Reduce Mental Health Stigma

OCONOMOWOC, Wis., May 20, 2013  /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Mental Health Month, Patrick T. Hammer, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rogers Behavioral Health System (RBHS), is pleased to introduce Rogers InHealth. The System's newest key corporation, Rogers InHealth was created to help eliminate stigma through self-empowerment and illuminating recovery by shar...

Is a Doctor's Continuing Education Important? Having Just Received His 10th Fellowship/Diplomate Award, Local Reno Dentist, Dr. J Brian Allman Sure Thinks So

Reno, Nevada dentist awarded diplomate status from the Academy of Clinical Sleep Disorders Disciplines, making it the 10th fellowship/diplomate Dr. J Brian Allman has received. As the founder of Vibrant Family Smiles, Dr. Allman offers a caring, whole body approach to quality dental care for local Reno Families. (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Being diligent and aware of the type and quantity of continuing...

Medtronic to Honor Those Who Give Back After Receiving Life-Enhancing Medical Technology

(View the Bakken Invitation video here) Live On. Give On:  Ten inspirational people will be awarded a $20,000 charitable donation and be honored at an awards celebration in Hawaii as part of the first annual Bakken Invitation MINNEAPOLIS - May 20, 2013- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced today that applications are being accepted for the inaugural Bakken Invitation, a global program desig...

Body clock genes linked to depression

Genes believed to regulate sleep rhythm are expressed abnormally in people with major depressive disorders, scientists say...

New sleep pill may be unsafe at higher doses, FDA review suggests

Federal health regulators say an experimental insomnia drug from Merck can help patients fall asleep, but it also carries worrisome side effects, including daytime drowsiness and suicidal thinking. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday released its review of the company's …

Ketamine Works in OCD, Stubborn Depression (CME/CE)

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- The anesthetic agent ketamine continues to show tantalizing promise in psychiatric disorders, with results from new studies in intractable depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.