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VHI publishes Compare HMOs report to help consumers choose HMOs that meet their needs

What's important to you and your family for health care may be different for your neighbors or co-workers. Virginia Health Information published their Compare HMOs report to help consumers find, compare and choose the HMO that best meets their needs. Compare HMOs is part of VHI's free Consumer Guide to Health Insurance Options, a comprehensive guide helping Virginia consumers and employers learn about health insurance options.

6 Oct 2015

Big data predictive analytic methods may help identify soldiers at high risk for committing violent crimes

Workplace violence perpetrated by military personnel is a major concern of the U.S. Department of Defense. Although programs have been implemented to teach violence prevention strategies to all military personnel, such programs are much less intensive than others developed in settings for people judged to be at high risk of violent behavior.

6 Oct 2015

WHO and UNAIDS develop new standards to help countries improve quality of adolescent care

New Global Standards for quality health-care services for adolescents developed by WHO and UNAIDS aim to help countries improve the quality of adolescent health care.

6 Oct 2015

Impact of physicians' unconscious attitudes toward disabled and LGBT patients

Physicians' unconscious attitudes toward special patient populations like disabled and LGBT patients may be partially responsible for poorer overall health observed in these communities, according to a Rowan University professor of family medicine.

6 Oct 2015

Social dynamics, family history critical to identifying patients most likely to abuse pain medicines

Patients undergoing rehabilitation for physical injuries and their physicians can better understand who is most at risk of abusing opioids by reviewing their family history, lifestyle and environment for critical cues about susceptibility to addiction, according to physical medicine and rehabilitation experts.

6 Oct 2015

Positive emotions may make your heart healthier

People with heart disease may benefit from maintaining positive emotions, according to health researchers. Over the course of five years the researchers tracked more than 1,000 patients with coronary heart disease. Patients who reported higher positive psychological states were more likely to be physically active, sleep better and take their heart medications and were also less likely to smoke, compared to patients with lower levels of positive states.

6 Oct 2015

Benzodiazepines heighten risks for dementia and death

Patients taking benzodiazepines to treat psychiatric conditions should consider transitioning to other therapies because of heightened risks for dementia and death, according to clinicians from the American College of Osteopathic Neurologists and Psychiatrists.

6 Oct 2015

First-time expectant dads experience depression

Transition to parenthood can be a difficult life event. It can have an impact on both parents and on the long-term development of the child. While mother's "baby blues" have been widely investigated, little research has been conducted on antenatal paternal depression. A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre sheds light on fathers' mental health by releasing the first study to report the prevalence of antenatal depression symptoms among Canadian men.

6 Oct 2015

UNC researchers find association between gut microbiota and anorexia nervosa

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that people with anorexia nervosa have very different microbial communities residing inside their guts compared to healthy individuals and that this bacterial imbalance is associated with some of the psychological symptoms related to the eating disorder.

5 Oct 2015

Key neurotransmitter receptor may be a potential target for individualised Autism Spectrum Disorder treatment

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have uncovered a significant—and potentially treatable—relationship between a chemical that helps transmit signals in the brain and genetic mutations present in a subset of individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

5 Oct 2015

Self-reported fatigue predicts myelodysplastic syndromes survival

Patient-reported fatigue severity is an independent prognostic marker for survival in patients with newly diagnosed intermediate-2- or high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, according to research published in The Lancet Oncology.

1 Oct 2015

Vanderbilt study reveals benefits of theatre-based program in children with autism

Children with autism who participated in a 10-week, 40-hour, theatre-based program showed significant differences in social ability compared to a group of children with autism who did not participate, according to a Vanderbilt study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

1 Oct 2015

Health Partnership Scheme funds project dedicated to viral haemorrhagic fever

A team from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has received funding of £136,000 from the Health Partnership Scheme to develop a training programme to help the Sierra Leonean Health Service to fight future outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fever.

1 Oct 2015

Doctors successfully reduce risk-taking behaviour in teenagers, young people

Doctors have successfully reduced risk-taking behaviour in teenagers and young people, in a world-first trial led by the University of Melbourne.

1 Oct 2015

Brodalumab therapy achieves 100% reduction in psoriasis symptoms

An experimental, biologic treatment, brodalumab, achieved 100 percent reduction in psoriasis symptoms in twice as many patients as a second, commonly used treatment, according to the results of a multicenter clinical trial led by Mount Sinai researchers and published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

1 Oct 2015

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Latest Mental Health News and Research

VHI publishes Compare HMOs report to help consumers choose HMOs that meet their needs

Big data predictive analytic methods may help identify soldiers at high risk for committing violent crimes

WHO and UNAIDS develop new standards to help countries improve quality of adolescent care

Impact of physicians' unconscious attitudes toward disabled and LGBT patients

Social dynamics, family history critical to identifying patients most likely to abuse pain medicines

Positive emotions may make your heart healthier

Benzodiazepines heighten risks for dementia and death

First-time expectant dads experience depression

UNC researchers find association between gut microbiota and anorexia nervosa

Key neurotransmitter receptor may be a potential target for individualised Autism Spectrum Disorder treatment

Self-reported fatigue predicts myelodysplastic syndromes survival

Vanderbilt study reveals benefits of theatre-based program in children with autism

Health Partnership Scheme funds project dedicated to viral haemorrhagic fever

Doctors successfully reduce risk-taking behaviour in teenagers, young people

Brodalumab therapy achieves 100% reduction in psoriasis symptoms

Survey: One-third of US women use compounded hormones at menopause

Depression and suicide risk screening can help healthcare providers prevent suicides in teens

New, unique method to measure shopping addiction

'Housing First' approach may not reduce obesity problems for homeless people with mental illness

Integrating addiction treatment into primary care lowers substance dependence in patients with HIV

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