Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
A new national study of US teenagers dispels the idea that normal shyness is the same as social phobia or social anxiety disorder, a disabling psychiatric condition where the person is overwhelmed by anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social or performance situations. Social phobia can also ...
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Physicians and patient groups welcome the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) decision to reverse the draft guidance and approve the use of use of Mepact® in their latest appraisal, announced Takeda UK. Mepact® is designed to treat high-grade non-metastatic osteosarcoma in children, adolescents and young adults aged ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
A new study involving nearly 2,500 high school students demonstrates the value of routine mental health screening in school to identify adolescents at-risk for mental illness, and to connect those adolescents with recommended follow-up care. The largest school-based study conducted to-date by the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Black researchers are significantly less likely to win grant funding from the National Institutes of Health than white applicants, according to a new study. The director of the U.S. agency says it will take action to address the potential for "insidious bias" in the review process.
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
Poorly controlled asthma more than doubles healthcare costs associated with the disease and threatens educational achievement through a dramatic increase in school absence, according to researchers at National Jewish Health. The research team reported in the August 2011 issue of The Archives of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology that children with ...
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