The study confirms the relation between a mutation in the serotonin transporter gene and exposure to threatening life events in depression. The disorder affects 20 percent of Spaniards visiting the doctor.
The National Inquiry into Management and Medicine looked at hospitals across the UK, focussing on the often troubled relationships between doctors and NHS managers. It found that where the two sides have formed a genuine alliance, the health service runs more efficiently ? and patient outcomes are improved.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes the release of the six healthcare workers held in Libya since 1999. The medical professionals (five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor), were flown to Sofia, Bulgaria where they were pardoned on arrival by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.
Even though you may think of whooping cough as one of those ailments from Grandma?s day, the truth is it?s still around and plaguing people of all ages.
The last-minute scramble to fill junior doctor posts in England means more operations will be cancelled, the BMA warns. Thirty thousand junior doctors are starting new jobs in England* today, and a catalogue of new problems are emerging, such as:
State Health Secretary Dr. Calvin B. Johnson today reported this year?s first confirmed human case of West Nile virus in Pennsylvania. The individual, a 56-year-old Clearfield County man, is recovering and has been discharged from the hospital.
Robin Roberts of Good Morning America detected a lump in her breasts during a breast self-exam, and she revealed this in her writing on the ABC Television Web site, and later oncology doctors confirmed the breast cancer diagnosis. Roberts also urged everyone to pay attention to their health. ?I can’t stress enough how important it is to get screened and checked for all cancers ? and to do self breast exams,? Roberts wrote.
Using novel light-scattering techniques, researchers have found the first evidence that early stage pancreatic cancer causes subtle changes in part of the small intestine.
The next time you have difficulty fighting a bacterial infection, your next trip to the doctor might be to the family veterinarian. A new University of Missouri-Columbia study is investigating whether the family pet could be a reservoir for infections of multiresistant bacteria in humans.
GlaxoSmithKline (LSE & NYSE: GSK) and POZEN Inc. (NASDAQ: POZN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a second approvable letter for Trexima? (sumatriptan/naproxen sodium).