Medicine NewsAllergy sufferer and actress Alison Sweeney joined the makers of the fastest 24-hour over-the-counter (OTC) allergy medicine, ZYRTEC®,for an unusual race to officially welcome the first day of spring and new ZYRTEC® Liquid Gels…
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Far fewer women are entering treatment for heroin addiction and more women are successfully completing treatment for drug dependency than ever before. A detailed study of statistics about women in treatment in England shows a 19 per cent fall in the number of adult females under 30 entering heroin programmes over the last five years [...]
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The new Roche Elecsys Testosterone II Assay delivers enhanced accuracy against the Gold Standard ID-GC/MS methods for female samples (ref1) (in the range of 0.025-1.5 ng/ml)…
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According to new figures released by the sexual health team at Lloydspharmacy*, today’s women have three times more sexual partners by the time they reach 24 than women of their grandmothers’ generation had by the same age. The sexual health team’s results show that young women today have an average of 5.65 different sexual partners [...]
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The American Psychological Association applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for passing health care reform measures that will help to ensure that millions more people obtain necessary health care and that recognize the important connection between mind and body to overall health and well-being…
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A leading scientific journal in Pakistan, The Journal of Management & Social Science,* recently published a paper titled “A New Role for the Military: Preventing Enemies from Arising-Reviving an Ancient Approach to Peace,” indicating that the military application of the Transcendental Meditation technique has merit…
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Imagine if your fear of spiders, heights or flying could be cured with a simple injection. Research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal, Behavioral and Brain Functions suggests that one day this could be a reality…
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Psychologists led by the University of Pennsylvania have used implantable electrodes and a first-person driving game to identify the cells of the brain that indicate travel in a clockwise or counterclockwise motion, called “path cells.” The study will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
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As the number of people with diabetes in Scotland grows to 228,000, Diabetes UK Scotland is today urging NHS Scotland to meet the challenge to improve diabetes services and improve the health of people with diabetes…
A genetic accident in the sea more than 500 million years ago has provided new insight into diabetes, according to research from Queen Mary, University of London. Professor Maurice Elphick, from Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, says his findings could help to explain a rare form of the disease that causes sufferers [...]