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Penn-ICOWHI conference to examine how urban environments affect women's health

Women comprise more than half the population of the nation's cities, are three times as likely as their male counterparts to live alone after the age of 65, and are primary caregivers for their families at all ages and stages of life. The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, with the International Congress of Women's Health Issues, will host "Cities and Women's Health: Global Perspectives," Wednesday, April 7, through Saturday, April 10, on Penn's campus to examine how urban environments affect their health.

12 Mar 2010

Managing back pain without costly medications: High-touch Integrative Medicine therapies may help

A new pilot study conducted with assembly workers at the Ford Motor Company in Louisville, KY focused on acute, work-related low back pain. Results of that study indicate that high-touch Integrative Medicine (IM) therapies can help employees manage back pain without the costly medications typically associated with managing their pain.

12 Mar 2010

TechniScan utilizes NVIDIA Tesla GPUs in WBU system for diagnostic breast imaging

TechniScan, Inc. is featured on NVIDIA's recently posted blog about speeding the amount of time it takes to get breast imaging results into the hands of doctors and patients. NVIDIA is the world leader in visual computing technologies and inventor of the graphics processing unit.

12 Mar 2010

Traumatic brain injuries may lead to life-threatening complications

One of the most common questions I am asked after someone hits their head is, "How serious is this bump on my head and should I make an appointment?" Head injuries are the result of trauma to the scalp, skull or brain. Concussion, the most common type of traumatic brain injury (TBI), is an injury that occurs after a blow to the head and results in a temporary loss of consciousness.

12 Mar 2010

Collaborative center established to reduce obesity-related deaths in African-American and Latino communities

A $6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has funded the creation of ORBIT: Obesity Related Behavioral Intervention Trials to focus on reducing obesity and obesity-related deaths in New York City's African-American and Latino communities.

11 Mar 2010

ACC endorses Emmi Solutions and online patient engagement programs to improve patient communication

When patients hear the words “heart failure” they often remember little of the discussion that follows. Stress, emotions, health literacy and even the patient’s condition itself can create a barrier for good communication between patients and their doctors. Studies show patients forget as much as 80% of their discussion with their doctor by the time they reach the parking garage.

11 Mar 2010

Gamma Pharmaceuticals, Jugular form new joint venture company

Gamma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the formation of a joint venture company with Jugular, Inc., replacing the brand licensing agreement in place between Gamma and Jugular since 2007. The new company, Gamma Jugular, LLC is closely integrated with Gamma's existing corporate infrastructure and distribution channels, and currently has three product lines and six SKUs with plans for expansion. Under the terms of the joint venture, Gamma will consolidate Gamma Jugular's performance into Gamma's financials.

11 Mar 2010

Injured nerves may cause severe pain in patients with sickle cell disease

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered the pain caused by sickle cell disease may not occur solely from damaged tissues, but also from injured nerves.

11 Mar 2010

XenaCare Holdings' Cobroxin to be available for purchase in Walgreens

XenaCare Holdings, Inc., a company specializing in the marketing and retail distribution of consumer healthcare products, has announced today that its over-the-counter (OTC) pain reliever, Cobroxin, will be available for purchase in Walgreens by May 1, 2010. Walgreens is considered one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains with 7,162 drugstores located throughout the United States.

11 Mar 2010

Orthopedic surgeons focus on new ways to prevent arm injuries among young baseball players

Throwing arm injuries are on the rise in Little League and other youth baseball programs. After these injuries occur, many players are out for the season; others require surgery and must refrain from play for an even longer duration; still others sustain injuries so severe that they cause permanent damage and are unable to continue playing baseball.

11 Mar 2010

Medical school costs, loan rates rise sharply

NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage."

10 Mar 2010

Adult female stress urinary incontinence: Uroplasty launches new endoscopic injection needle

Uroplasty, Inc., a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products to treat voiding dysfunctions, today announced the introduction of a newly designed endoscopic injection needle that can be used in conjunction with the system used to inject Macroplastique®. Macroplastique is a soft-tissue urethral bulking agent used to treat adult female stress urinary incontinence primarily due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency. This permanent, nonresorbable material is injected into the tissues surrounding the urethra to help improve urethral closure to enhance bladder control.

10 Mar 2010

African-Americans and Hispanics are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's and dementias

According to the Alzheimer's Association's® 2010 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are about two times more likely and Hispanics are about one and one-half times more likely than their white counterparts to have Alzheimer's and other dementias.

10 Mar 2010

Childhood bad behaviour linked to chronic widespread pain in adult life

Bad behaviour in childhood is associated with long-term, chronic widespread pain in adult life, according to the findings of a study following nearly 20,000 people from birth in 1958 to the present day.

10 Mar 2010

New data for BMS747158 to be featured in oral presentation at ACC Annual Scientific Session 2010

Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, today announced that new data for BMS747158, the company’s novel drug candidate in clinical development as a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) perfusion imaging agent, will be featured in an oral presentation at the American College of Cardiology 59th Annual Scientific Session taking place March 14-16, 2010 in Atlanta.

10 Mar 2010

Obama attacks insurers, rallies public to press Congress to approve health reform

"The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases," The Washington Post reports, adding that President Obama "and his health secretary staged a two-pronged attack Monday in a stern letter to health insurance chief executives and a speech in which the president castigated insurance companies 22 times.

10 Mar 2010

"Cyberbullying" leads to depression in LGBT youth

Schools are typically on guard against students who bully by inflicting repeated violence on other students. But technology has given rise to a relatively new form of bullying which inflicts emotional harm in a stealth manner, working through Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, cell phones and instant messaging.

9 Mar 2010

Rush University Medical Center develops WISHFIT program to help pre-menopausal women reduce visceral fat

Under a $7.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Rush University Medical Center is developing a novel program, called WISHFIT, to help pre-menopausal women reduce visceral fat through a sustained increase in physical activity and reduction in stress.

9 Mar 2010

Insight into how human brain seeks religion

In the fractious debate on the existence of God and the nature of religion, two distinguished scientists radically alter the discussion. Taking a perspective rooted in evolutionary biology with a focus on brain science, in GOD'S BRAIN (Prometheus Books, $25) renowned anthropologist Lionel Tiger and pioneering neuroscientist Michael McGuire elucidate perennial questions about religion: What is its purpose? How did it arise? What is its source? And why does every known culture have some form of it?

9 Mar 2010

Common psychiatric illnesses: Free online questionnaire helps doctors screen patients

A one-page, 27-item questionnaire that is available free online is a valid and effective tool to help primary care doctors screen patients for four common psychiatric illnesses, a study led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers concludes.

9 Mar 2010

Stress News and Research

Penn-ICOWHI conference to examine how urban environments affect women's health

Managing back pain without costly medications: High-touch Integrative Medicine therapies may help

TechniScan utilizes NVIDIA Tesla GPUs in WBU system for diagnostic breast imaging

Traumatic brain injuries may lead to life-threatening complications

Collaborative center established to reduce obesity-related deaths in African-American and Latino communities

ACC endorses Emmi Solutions and online patient engagement programs to improve patient communication

Gamma Pharmaceuticals, Jugular form new joint venture company

Injured nerves may cause severe pain in patients with sickle cell disease

XenaCare Holdings' Cobroxin to be available for purchase in Walgreens

Orthopedic surgeons focus on new ways to prevent arm injuries among young baseball players

Medical school costs, loan rates rise sharply

Adult female stress urinary incontinence: Uroplasty launches new endoscopic injection needle

African-Americans and Hispanics are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's and dementias

Childhood bad behaviour linked to chronic widespread pain in adult life

New data for BMS747158 to be featured in oral presentation at ACC Annual Scientific Session 2010

Obama attacks insurers, rallies public to press Congress to approve health reform

"Cyberbullying" leads to depression in LGBT youth

Rush University Medical Center develops WISHFIT program to help pre-menopausal women reduce visceral fat

Insight into how human brain seeks religion

Common psychiatric illnesses: Free online questionnaire helps doctors screen patients

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