Mental Health Weekly Digest articles from August 2003

Mental Health Weekly Digest archives from August 2003

Gene more than doubles risk of following life stresses.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Among people who suffered multiple stressful life events over 5 years, 43% with one version of a gene developed depression, compared with only 17% with another version of the gene, say researchers...

Paper describes interpersonal effects.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers are finding ways to study hypochondriasis, or excessive worry over one's health, and how it affects relationships, including patient-doctor interaction. Hypochondriasis, or excessive...

Breast cancer worry and risk were determinants of prophylactic mastectomy.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Breast cancer worry and risk were determinants of prophylactic mastectomy. "Scientific reports suggest that women at risk for familial breast cancer may benefit from prophylactic mastectomy,"...

New way of treating elderly patients defies conventional medical wisdom.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The best way to treat hospitalized elderly patients who become delirious defies conventional wisdom and common practice, according to new research from St. Louis University. Delirium, a common...

Fractalkine may play key role in HIV-related brain damage.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fractalkine (FKN) appears to be involved in HIV-related brain damage. FKN, "a chemokine highly expressed in the central nervous system, participates in inflammatory responses operative in many brain...

Astrocytes in brain accumulate A beta 42; lysis creates amyloid plaque in brain.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alzheimer disease is formed by slow accumulation of Abeta42 in astrocytes, followed by lysis and plaque formation. "Beta-Amyloid(1-42) (Abeta42), a major component of amyloid plaques, accumulates...

Histology, disease severity combine to form a sequence of events, grading system.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Disease severity and histological observation of primary visual cortex provide a grading system as well as a sequence of events in Alzheimer disease. "Progression of neuritic and Abeta pathology in...

Antidepressant helps alleviate compulsive shopping disorder.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- While a trip to the mall may mean a cute sweater or new CD for most of us, it has ominous implications for the thousands of Americans who suffer from compulsive shopping disorder, a condition marked by...

Teens' distorted perceptions may lead to unhealthy behaviors.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High school girls tend to see themselves as 11 pounds over their ideal body weight while boys perceive their current and ideal body images as almost the same, according to a new study. How...

Submission of response to Wellbutrin XL approvable letter confirmed.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biovail Corporation (BVF)(BVF) confirmed that the company and its partner GlaxoSmithKline responded to the approvable letter recently issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the...

$2 Million chair in late-life depression endowed at Emory.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Businessman and philanthropist J.B. Fuqua, whose $2 million in gifts helped found and support the Fuqua Center for Late-Life Depression at Emory University's Wesley Woods Center beginning in 1999, has...

Stress linked to worsening of acne in college students.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- College students with acne may experience a worsening of their skin condition linked to stress during examination periods, according to a new study. Acne vulgaris is the most common skin disease...

Antibrain antibodies may be useful as HIV dementia marker.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antibrain antibodies may act as a marker of HIV-related neurodegeneration. "The etiology of HIV-associated dementia (HAD) is still unknown although direct viral effects have not been supported,"...

Depression in African American men may be barrier to high blood pressure control.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing concludes depression may sabotage efforts to control high blood pressure in urban, African American men. The researchers found no direct...

Pediatric patients still require care and attention to specific needs as teens.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Transfer of pediatric liver transplant patients to other physicians later in life requires knowledge of need for constant surveillance, and to assure patient compliance. According to recent...

Scientists express concern over clinical value of new drugs.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Recent changes to the classification of psychiatric disorders are encouraging pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs that are of questionable clinical value, argue researchers. Since 1980,...

The spectrum of disease that human parvovirus B19 infection causes is very broad.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The spectrum of disease that human parvovirus B19 infection causes is very broad; now includes neurological problems. According to a study from England, "Since its discovery, human parvovirus B19...

Sexual behavior may reduce hypothalamic receptor for androgen, not androgens.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Reduction of brain receptors for androgens, but not serum androgens, may occur with male sexual satiety. "Male sexual behavior is regulated by limbic areas like the medial preoptic nucleus (MPN),...

Clerical workers show more signs than executives.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Clerical workers show more signs of biological stress during the work day than those in executive or more senior positions, according to a new British study. Employees on the lower rungs of the job...

High-intensity exercise best way to reduce anxiety.
August 4, 2003... 2003 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Most experts have agreed that a moderate to low amount of regular exercise can ease personal tension and stress. However, a new study by researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia shows that a...

Common treatment for depression is safe and effective.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that a drug, Zoloft, commonly used for depression, also improves quality of life and alleviates disruption in daily activities for the one-quarter of Alzheimer...

Unemployment can triple risk.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Unemployment carries up to three times the risk of suicide, suggests a New Zealand study. The findings held true even after taking account of risk factors, such as household income, education, and...

Steroids can treat encephalitis characterized by anti-white matter antibodies.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Limbic encephalitis characterized by anti-white matter antibodies can be sustainably responsive to steroid treatment. According to recent research published in the journal Internal Medicine, "A...

Link between sensory experience and long-term depression described.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sensory experience can dramatically alter the structure and function of the developing brain. For instance, if one eye is deprived of vision for days to weeks in a young animal (including strabismus in...

Symptoms signal shorter lives for people with cancer.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A diagnosis of cancer carries such emotional upheaval that a person's prolonged feelings of depression can eat away at the possibility for long-term survival. In a new study of cancer patients...

Nuances of interpersonal relationships influence blood pressure.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study found that dealing with those for whom we have mixed or conflicted feelings can raise our blood pressure. Study participants' blood pressure was higher in those situations than when...

Addiction relapse similar to that of other chronic diseases.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Relapse following treatment for drug and alcohol addiction is common, predictable, and preventable, according to "Relapse & Recovery: Behavioral Strategies for Change," a research report by the Caron...

Wistar rats not relevant model for antipsychotic-induced weight gain.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antipsychotic-induced weight gain in humans cannot be modeled by treating Wistar rats with antipsychotics. "Several clinical reports have demonstrated that most antipsychotics of the new...

Antidepressant helps alleviate uncontrollable shopping urges.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- While a trip to the mall may mean a cute sweater or new CD for most of us, it has ominous implications for the thousands of Americans who suffer from compulsive shopping disorder, a condition marked by...

Young patients have high Abeta40 only; in the old, Abeta40 and 42 are high.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In Down syndrome, young patients have high Abeta40 only, in old patients Abeta40 and Abeta42 are high. "Plasma amyloid beta protein 1-40 (Abeta40) and Abeta42 levels were quantitated from 28 young...

Deal to help mental-health care provider out of bankruptcy gets tentative okay.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Magellan Health Services Inc., the largest provider of mental health-care services in the U.S., has received tentative approval of a deal to bring it out of bankruptcy. Canada's Onex Corp., a...

Amnesia, confusion may signal concussion.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Loss of consciousness may not be the main indicator of a concussion, according to new research released at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM). ...

Study helps patients calm symptom distress.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Implanted cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) can shock irregular hearts back to normal rhythms. But they can also deliver a jolt to newly implanted patients' psyches, since the lifesaving devices discharge...

It is important to attend to physical, emotional needs of lung cancer survivors.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It is important to attend to physical, emotional needs of lung cancer survivors. According to recent research from the United States, "Little is known about the experience of surviving lung cancer...

New ways sought to treat mentally ill.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Treatment for millions of mentally ill Americans should go beyond medication to help people find jobs, make friends, and otherwise live meaningful lives, a U.S. presidential commission recommends in a...

Some cost controls may increase employers' long-term expenses.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some mental-health plan benefits designed to contain costs by restricting access to care may actually increase an employer's expenses over the long-term, according to an analysis of mental-health plans...

Financial difficulties are forcing Michigan hospitals out of psychiatric care.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hospitals across the Detroit, Michigan, area are closing or downsizing psychiatric wards in response to financial difficulties. As a result, additional stress is being placed on an overburdened...

Doctors are often strongly affected by patient deaths.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Doctors are often powerfully affected by the deaths of patients for whom they care, and some may need emotional support, according to a new study. Researchers at two teaching hospitals in the...

Molecular genetic mechanism for schizophrenia.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) was identified as a novel gene disrupted by a translocation that segregated with schizophrenia in a Scottish family. Predicted DISC1 product has no significant...

AAS praises President's Commission for emphasizing prevention.
August 11, 2003... 2003 AUG 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Association of Suicidology has praised the release of the report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. The report, "Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental...

Antidepressant drugs may protect brain from damage.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Studying women with histories of clinical depression, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that the use of antidepressant drugs appears to protect a key brain...

Alliance formed to improve quality of life for people with dementia.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) and Sunrise Senior Living, Inc., have formed a collaborative relationship to enhance the quality of life for individuals with Alzheimer disease and related...

Hostility, depression may boost heart disease protein level.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mild to moderate levels of depression symptoms combined with feelings of hostility in healthy men may raise their levels of a protein that is associated with clogged arteries and a greater risk of...

Up to 15% of children affected, yet problem often goes undiagnosed and untreated.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Five to 15% of children and adolescents in the United States suffer from a dangerous and disabling emotional disorder that poses a serious impediment to their social, educational, and emotional...

Psychosocial interventions improve quality of life in adult cancer patients.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Psychosocial interventions improve quality of life in adult cancer patients. "The present meta analysis summarized the results of 37 published, controlled studies that investigated the...

Job stress may be missing link between workplace exercise and heart risk.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Several researchers have suggested that employees whose jobs require a lot of physical activity face a greater risk for heart disease, but investigators from the Keck School of Medicine of the...

Supplemental NDA submitted for aripiprazole.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced that a Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Abilify (aripiprazole) for the treatment of acute mania in patients with...

FDA classifies Wellbutrin XL approvable letter as Class 1.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biovail confirmed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified the recent response to the Wellbutrin XL approvable letter as Class 1. The agency has therefore set September 3,...

Patients need to keep taking antidepressants for better results.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A common problem for depressed patients is that they don't take antidepressant drugs for long enough. Most guidelines suggest continuing for 4-6 months after symptoms in a first episode of...

Study finds significant causality results for D-02 VNS Therapy.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cyberonics, Inc., (CYBX) announced that the preliminary 1-year results from its D-02 VNS Therapy depression pivotal study and D-04 companion study of chronic and recurrent treatment resistant...

Calbindin-D-28K loss, plaque, tangle seem independently related to brain aging.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aging appears to create plaques, tangles, and loss of calbindin-D-28K in the cholinergic forbrain as independent events. "Reports from our laboratory have indicated a substantial and specific loss...

Exercise may benefit in MS due to increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The beneficial effects of exercise on MS may be due to the increases in brain derived neurotrophic factor induced. "Neurotrophins like brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and nerve growth...

Stress leads kids to unhealthy diets.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stressed-out 11-year-olds eat more unhealthful food than their less-anxious classmates and consume fewer nutritious meals and snacks, according to British researchers. A study of 4,320...

Relationships may protect older women against earlier death.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- All relationships with family and friends help some older women live longer than their lonelier counterparts, but marriage may be the most important relationship of all for these women, according to...

TREMs have a wide variety of immunologic and neurologic functions.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Triggering receptors expressed by myeloid cells (TREMs) have a wide variety of immunologic and neurologic functions. "TREMs belong to a rapidly expanding family of receptors that include...

Brain tumor progression may be slowed with attenuated HSV-1 or related proteins.
August 18, 2003... 2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There is a reaction to herpes simplex virus in the brain that slows intracranial metastasis, which if harnessed, could someday help control brain tumor progression. "Neuroattenuated herpes simplex...

Creation of new neurons critical to antidepressant action in mice.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Blocking the formation of neurons in the hippocampus blocks the behavioral effects of antidepressants in mice, say researchers funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Their finding...

High percentage of U.S. youth report PTSD symptoms and other disorders.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The carefree days of youth apparently aren't so carefree anymore - if they ever were - according to the results of a new study of America's adolescents. The study, involving 4,023 youth (ages...

Depression is atypical in chronic fatigue; may be a consequence of illness.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Depression associated with chronic fatigue syndrome is atypical and may be a consequence of illness. According to recent research from Belgium, "Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has gained...

Early physical activity spares cognitive decline in older men but not women.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Early physical activity spares cognitive decline in older men but not women. "Physical activity has shown to be inversely associated with cognitive decline in older people. Whether this association...

OCD treatment may work better if serotonin receptor subtypes are targeted.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder may soon be better treated; targeting of serotonin receptor subtypes may improve effectiveness. According to published research from the United States, "In the past...

Status before liver transplantation predicts post-transplant mental health.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Status before liver transplantation predicts post-transplant mental health. "This study has two goals. The first goal is to assess the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in orthotopic liver...

Final approval granted by FDA for generic Paxil.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Apotex Corp. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given final approval to the company's abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for paroxetine hydrochloride tablets, 10 mg, 20...

Behavioral program provides great benefit for some children.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study provides confirmation that some young autistic children can make remarkable progress when they participate in a specially designed intensive behavioral intervention program. The study...

New indication for Zyprexa receives positive opinion from European CPMP.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Eli Lilly and Co. (LLY) announced that the European Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP) has issued a positive opinion for a new indication for Zyprexa (olanzapine). The new claim...

Paraphrenia has hippocampal pyramidal cells, tangles, some amyloid plaque.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Paraphrenia is characterized by preservation of hippocampal pyramidal cells, neurofibrillary tangles, and little amyloid plaque. According to a study from the United States, "A recent article...

Panel calls for greater attention to patients' pain, depression, and fatigue.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health care professionals, caregivers, and patients all have an important role in symptom management throughout the course of cancer. Evidence suggests that pain is often undertreated, despite the...

Estradiol doesn't cause the genders to have differences in episodic memory.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Estradiol doesn't cause the genders to have differences in episodic memory. According to published research from Sweden, "sex differences exist for several cognitive tasks and estrogen has been...

Some lower performance in Down syndrome may be due to prion protein polymorphism.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some lower mental performance in Down syndrome may be due to a prion protein gene polymorphism. "Recently, a frequent prion protein gene (PRNP) polymorphism consisting of a methionine (M) for...

Prevalence of vascular lesions negligible in dementia.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A large comparative study finds that the prevalence of vascular lesions and stroke in dementia with Lewy bodies is found negligible, lower than in Parkinson disease and controls. "The frequency of...

SBIR grant to help company develop Alzheimer disease drug.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Icogen Corp. announced that it has received an award for a small business innovative research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIA) to develop an Alzheimer disease therapeutic. ...

One gene controls development of all serotonin cells.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mice missing a gene called Lmx1b do not produce the important brain chemical serotonin, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. This is the first evidence...

Pathological gamblers' brains respond differently to depictions of gambling.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pathological gamblers may have decreased activity in areas of the brain involved in impulse control, according to a new study. Pathological gambling (PG) is classified as an impulse control...

Anxiety hits women harder than men after heart attack.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A heart attack can make anyone anxious, but women experience greater anxiety than men do after heart attacks, a pattern that is consistent across four continents, a new study notes. The higher...

Women with symptomatic premenstrual syndrome respond abnormally to progesterone.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with symptomatic premenstrual syndrome respond abnormally to progesterone. "Previous studies in animals indicate that reproductive steroids are potent modulators of the...

Health care inequalities in the lesbian community need to be addressed.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health care inequalities in the lesbian community need to be addressed. According to published research from Australia, "Health inequalities exist for lesbian and bisexual women, largely related to...

Women with female sexual arousal problems benefit from many forms of therapy.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with female sexual arousal problems benefit from many forms of therapy. "Female sexual arousal disorders constitute a varied spectrum of difficulties, ranging from the total absence of...

Doctors diagnose extreme Internet use.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- University of Florida psychiatrists have published guidelines to help doctors determine when web use is too extreme to be healthy, an important step in determining whether Internet addiction should be...

Hancock to use MCAS to screen for dementia.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- John Hancock Life Insurance Co. announced it will enhance its long-term care underwriting program by expanding the use of a dementia screening tool called the Minnesota Cognitive Acuity Screen (MCAS),...

False memories, failing recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not," Mark Twain wrote. "But my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never...

Social functioning of Kosovo citizens improved since war's end.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome have increased in Kosovo since 1999, but social functioned has improved. According to a study from the United States, "A cross-sectional cluster sample...

Diagnosis should be considered for unexplainable medical conditions.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ophthalmologists and other medical professionals should consider Munchausen syndrome by proxy if a child has unusual ocular abnormalities or other medical conditions that cannot be explained through...

C-857T polymorphism of TNF-alpha promoter strongly associated with narcolepsy.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The C-857T polymorphism of the tumor necrosis alpha promoter is found to be strongly associated with narcolepsy, along with the subset of HLA-DR2 that are DRB1*15/16 negative. According to recent...

Adolescents teased about their weight may be more likely to be suicidal.
August 25, 2003... 2003 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Adolescents teased about their weight have low self-esteem, are dissatisfied with their bodies, and may contemplate and attempt suicide more than their peers who are not teased, according to a new...