MedLINE: DEPRESSION – Specific- Clinical Notes: Big 'Soda' Tax Needed to Change Habits Sunday, May 20, 2012Taxes on unhealthy foods need to be set at 20% or more to improve major health outcomes such as obesity, researchers said. Also this week: a recent spike in fatal falls may be illusory.
- DSM-5: What's In, What's Out Thursday, May 10, 2012PHILADELPHIA -- Reports here provided what may be the last public update on DSM-5, the next edition of American psychiatry's diagnostic guide, before it is formally released in May 2013.
- Study Links Late Depression, Risk of Dementia Tuesday, May 8, 2012Depression that strikes for the first time in later life may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported, but depression in the middle years that recurs later may be one of the causes of vascular dementia.
- DSM-5 Panel Tiptoes on Grief, Depression Monday, May 7, 2012PHILADELPHIA -- Psychiatrists writing new diagnostic criteria for major depression hope an explanatory note will mollify critics of a proposal to let patients grieving a dead loved one receive a formal diagnosis.
- Most DSM-5 Revisions Pass Field Trials Monday, May 7, 2012PHILADELPHIA -- Field trials of proposed new diagnostic criteria for many mental disorders showed that, for the most part, they were at least adequately reliable.
- Clinical Notes: Big 'Soda' Tax Needed to Change Habits Sunday, May 20, 2012
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Category Archives: CANCER
IMMUNE SYSTEM TRAINED TO KILL CANCER
The team at the University of Pennsylvania seems to have hit the genetic jackpot. As explained in the original story in The New York Times by Denise Grady; to make T-cells search out and destroy cancer, researchers must equip them … Continue reading
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Tagged B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, cancer, health, Immune system, T-cells, University of Pennsylvania
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NEW CANCER FIGHTING VIRUS
Pictures are worth a thousand words…… videos may be worth a million… Canadian scientists lead by Professor John Bell from the University of Ottawa modified vaccinia virus which was more famous for making the smallpox vaccine “We are very excited … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, Cancer research, health, John Cameron Bell, Ottawa, Smallpox vaccine, University of Ottawa
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SKIN CANCER: Could you tell the difference?
As we grow older we find all types of bumps, moles, dry patches, skin tags and what not growing on our bodies. Could one of these actually be the start of the big “C”? Skin cancer is one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Basal cell carcinoma, cancer, Immune system, Melanoma, Skin Cancer, Squamous cell carcinoma, Ultraviolet rays
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