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Need To Establish School Nutrition Standards And Limit Access To Competitive Foods (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
The time spent in school, 7-8hrs/day, from K through 12, is powerfully formative in guiding our children's life choices. Food is part of this calculus. Whether the food is "junk" or nutritious, the school sets a formidable example.
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Health Effects Of Casinos Have Been Ignored, Say Experts (medicalnewstoday.com)
Gambling, or risk taking, is normal human behavior. At least casinos return some of the house winnings back to society.
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Osiris Therapeutics Announces Positive Results in Groundbreaking Stem Cell Trial to Treat Heart Disease (www.osiris.com)
This is a start on the long road to legitimizing stem cell therapeutics...in this case using adult stem cells.
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Employers' plans emphasize wellness (www.pennlive.com)
Mental health problems are associated with more physical problemsMental health problems such as depression associated with more occupational problems, days off, etc
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A New Look at the Relationship and Management of ADHD and Comorbid Substance Use Disorder (cmsprepub.medscape.com)
Treating ADHD reduces risk of comorbid substance abuse with appropriate doses of medicationUntreated ADHD and substance abuse increases risk for dependence, adverse outcome including jail, sociopathy, adverse impact on occupational, social and personal functioning
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Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. Announces FDA Approval To Market Generic Ambien(R) (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
Urgent need for genericProprietary medications often prohibitively expensiveInsurance plans often prefer generic equivalents
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Vanda Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial for VSF-173 in Excessive Sleepiness (www.pipelinereview.com)
Urgent need for treatment for excessive sleepinessAffects millions of AmericansOne of most common presenting problems to primary care, psychiatry and neurology clinics where symptom may be primary or part of other primary condition
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XenoPort Reports Positive Top-Line Phase 3 Trial Results of XP13512 in Restless Legs Syndrome (www.pipelinereview.com)
This has huge significance as restless leg syndrome not only presents to primary care physicians and neurologists but frequently to psychiatristsPresentation often related to sleep disturbancePresentation of movement abnormalities/distress
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Scientists unravel clue in cortisol production (www.rxpgnews.com)
Depression is associated with abnormalities in cortisol production, in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and related brain imaging abnormalitiesAnxiety disorders area associated with abnormalities in cortisol productionEating disorders are associated with abnormaliteis in cortisol production
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Vanda Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial for VSF-173 in Excessive Sleepiness (www.pipelinereview.com)
Physician's are becoming increasingly aware of excessive sleepiness...essentially sleepiness and/or sleep occurring in the wrong places at the wrong times. A new non-addicting drug would be very welcome.