According to study results presented at the 2007 American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, iloperidone, an investigational atypical antipsychotic, was shown to have a favorable akathisia profile.
Men and women whose marriage has broken up have a higher risk of being depressed than people who remained with their spouse, according to a new study. However, men appear to take the separation harder.
Evidence confirms Public Citizen?s warnings about the risks of popular diabetes drug Avandia. Statement given by Sidney Wolfe, MD, Director of Health Research Group at Public Citizen:
Exercise is now the first scientifically proven “anti-aging” medicine for humans. The muscles of healthy seniors who did six months of resistance training actually rejuvenated.
UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) has opened one of the few clinics in the nation dedicated to providing services to adult patients with Down Syndrome.
Jet lag, a disruption of bodily rhythms caused by high-speed travel across several time zones typically in a jet aircraft, may be treated with viagra – a well-known impotence drug, revealed by Argentine researchers.
A new study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference finds that obese people are significantly more likely to have persistent or severe persistent asthma than their thinner counterparts.
With the growing number of smoking bans in restaurants and bars driving smokers outside, researchers in Athens, Ga., are hoping to find out whether secondhand smoke from smokers clustered outside these establishments is posing a health hazard of its own.
A minimally invasive device for treating recurrent stress urinary incontinence in women has been shown to be safe and effective in early clinical trials and is now under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), says Emory University School of Medicine urologist and trial co-principal investigator Niall Galloway, MD.
Two recent Mayo Clinic studies have found that magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), a new imaging technique invented at Mayo Clinic, is an accurate tool for non-invasive diagnosis of liver diseases.