Is being competitive a good or a bad thing when you’re a teenager? Well, a bit of both actually: competing to win is detrimental to girls’ social relationships and was linked to higher levels of depression, whereas this was much less the case for boys. However, competing to excel is beneficial to the well-being of [...] Read more »

People with heart disease could be at greater risk of heart attacks, stroke and heart failure if they suffer with general anxiety disorder too, according to a study. We say that the relationship between heart disease and this disorder is very complex and there needs to be more research carried out to better understand the [...] Read more »

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq:TEVA) announced that it has commenced commercial launch of Venlafaxine HCl ER Capsules, the Company’s generic version of Wyeth’s antidepressant Effexor XR®. The brand product had annual sales of approximately $2.75 billion in the United States, based on IMS sales data…

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People with heart disease could be at greater risk of heart attacks, stroke and heart failure if they suffer with general anxiety disorder too, according to a study. We say that the relationship between heart disease and this disorder is very complex and there needs to be more research carried out to better understand the [...] Read more »

Anxiety and uncertainty can cause us to become more idealistic and more radical in our religious beliefs, according to new findings by York University researchers, published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology…

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“From an early age on we are accustomed to the faces of other humans: a long nose, the swing of the lips or the bushy eyebrows. We learn to recognize the small differences which contribute to an individual appearance”, explains Christoph Dahl, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics”. It is similar in [...] Read more »

The Army is using dogs “much more” to help soldiers recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to the Army Surgeon General’s special assistant for mental health, Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, M.D., who spoke at the annual convention of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). “Animals are not just cute,” Ritchie said. “They [...] Read more »

Children who experience physical or sexual abuse, or other adversities such as the death of a parent or family violence, are at greater risk of suicide in later life, according to new research. And the greater the number of different adversities a child experiences, the more they are at risk…

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Tennis star Cliff Richey — the number one ranked professional tennis player in the United States in 1970 who won 45 tournament titles over a 26-year career — sees tennis having a “resurgence” in the next five years, rebounding from loss of television profile relative to the PGA golf tour. He attributed decline to lack [...] Read more »

The Army is using dogs “much more” to help soldiers recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to the Army Surgeon General’s special assistant for mental health, Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, M.D., who spoke at the annual convention of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). “Animals are not just cute,” Ritchie said. “They [...] Read more »