Eli Lilly and Co (NYSE: LLY) and Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has issued a positive opinion supporting the approval of Cymbalta® (duloxetine hydrochloride) for the treatment of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
The positive opinion is based upon the results [...]
Women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer who have also endured previous traumatic or stressful events see their cancer recur nearly twice as fast as other women, according to a report by a University of Rochester Medical Center scientist.
The small, retrospective study showed that women who faced physical or sexual abuse or life-threatening situations [...]
Can scientists predict who will develop anxiety disorders years in advance? UCLA psychology professor Michelle Craske thinks so. She is four years into an eight-year study evaluating 650 students, who were 16 when the study began, to identify risk factors for the development of anxiety and depression – the most comprehensive study of its kind. [...]
Young people with asthma are about twice as likely to suffer from depressive and anxiety disorders than are children without asthma, according to a study by a research team in Seattle. Previous research had suggested a possible link in young people between asthma and some mental health problems, such as panic disorder, but this study [...]
New research here suggests that hormones produced as during periods of stress may increase the growth rate of a particularly nasty kind of cancer.
The study showed that an increase in norepinephrine, a stress hormone, can stimulate tumor cells to produce two compounds. These compounds can break down of the tissue around the tumor [...]
Amendments that restrict civil marriage rights of same-sex couples – such as Proposition 8 that recently passed in California – have led to higher levels of stress and anxiety among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults, as well as among their families of origin, according to several new studies to be published by the American [...]
A package of measures to help unemployed people who are experiencing depression or anxiety to get back to work were announced by Health Secretary Alan Johnson and Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, including greater provision of talking therapies and a new network of employment support workers.
Speeding up the roll out of talking [...]
Long-term survivors of adult cancers are almost twice as likely to report psychological distress severe enough to cause moderate to serious problems functioning in social, work or school situations, compared to the general population, according to a large, national study presented September 24, 2008, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology’s 50th Annual [...]
By living in a well-to-do neighborhood, poor people increase their risk of death, according to a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers to be published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
“We tend to assume that people living in a high socioeconomic status neighborhood are well [...]
New research by a team at the University of Warwick says that massage may help infants aged under six months sleep better, cry less and be less stressed.
The team of researchers from Warwick Medical School and the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick was led by Angela Underdown. They looked at [...]
