The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario welcomes the launch of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) by Prime Minister Steven Harper in Ottawa, Ontario.
People with type 2 diabetes are more prone to have some heart disease, high blood pressure or stroke. Using a combination of diuretics and ACE inhibitors to manage blood pressure in these people with type 2 diabetes can help protect against heart disease, revealed by researchers in a recent worldwide study known as ADVANCE.
Preschool children are found to be stressed six months before starting school, revealed by researchers in a recent study.
GlaxoSmithKline announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has authorised a new indication for its once-daily anticoagulant ARIXTRA? 2.5 mg (fondaparinux sodium) for the treatment of specific acute coronary syndromes (ACS).
A nationwide survey of the religious beliefs and practices of American physicians has found that the least religious of all medical specialties is psychiatry. Among psychiatrists who have a religion, more than twice as many are Jewish and far fewer are Protestant or Catholic, the two most common religions among physicians overall.
Cardiac patients would soon be able to grow their own heart valves and have them transplanted within weeks of seeing a doctor, revealed by British researchers.
An investigational, phase II study published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine demonstrates that for the first time in humans a drug that acts on certain proteins in the brain called mGlu2/3 has antipsychotic activity. The study was sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY).
Among a growing number of Americans seeking general health information and information about cancer, the Internet remains a frequent first source, even though the public?s trust in online material about health has declined, reports a government study.
We often think that high-tech, surgical methods are the best approach when it comes to medical care. But for children born with clubfoot, there is growing, worldwide interest in a low-tech, non-surgical method of treatment that is more effective, less expensive and easier to provide than surgery.
Study in PLOS Biology says the human testes may act as mutation multipliers, increasing the odds of passing good (and sometimes bad) mutations to offspring.