Medicine NewsThe Department of Veterans Affairs is experiencing a surge of treatment requests and disability claims as soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan, overwhelming VA clinics. The Christian Science Monitor reports “the VA is experiencing an unprecedented demand for its services.
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Mount Sinai researchers have found that real-time brain imaging suggests that patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are physically unable to activate neurological networks that can help regulate emotion. The findings, by Harold W.
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Most of us are willing to help a neighbor in need, but there’s no question that we pay a price for our altruism. Not necessarily in money, but in valuable time and energy, and with no promise of payback.
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In the ongoing effort to help communities close the gap of mental health disparities, the American Psychiatric Association Office of Minority and National Affairs (OMNA) will hold a daylong conference, Diverse Youth in Transition: Navigating a Difficult Passage, in Seattle on September 26, 2009. It will feature mental health [...]
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday “appealed for the world to contribute more to improve women’s health and access to contraception,” Agence France-Presse reports.
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The New York Times examines how “[a] set of proposed international sex education guidelines aimed at reducing H.I.V. infections among young people” and unplanned pregnancies, based on “more than 80 studies of sex education,” has received some criticism.
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Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI) announced it will be presenting the positive results from the phase 2 clinical trial of their lead drug candidate for postmenopausal symptoms, Menerba, to the international community at the 8th Annual European Society for Gynecology (EGS) in Rome, Italy. The phase 2 clinical trial was designed to [...]
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A new Florida State Department of Health report (.pdf) “shows that for the first time since 1999, Florida has seen a significant decline in AIDS-related deaths,” among black, white and Hispanic men, the Orlando Sentinel reports (Quintero, 9/1).
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Researchers in California are reporting development of a so-called “NanoPen” that could provide a quick, convenient way of laying down patterns of nanoparticles – from wires to circuits – for making futuristic electronic devices, medical diagnostic tests, and other much-anticipated nanotech applications. A report on the device, which helps solve a long-standing challenge in nanotechnology, [...]
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Electrophysiologists Robert Stevenson, MD, and Jeffrey L. Williams, MD, MS, FACC, are safely implanting cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators in the Good Samaritan Hospital (GSH) Cardiology (Heart Failure) Program. These advanced defibrillators are used to treat sudden cardiac death, which is abrupt heart failure, usually due to an electrical rhythm dysfunction in the lower chambers of [...]
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