It’s quiet on my college campus now but you can be assured that, for the past couple of weeks, the stress-o-meter has registered extra high as students have been working ’round the clock to finish paper after paper after lab report after exam prep. Our library stays open 24 hours during finals and the students [...]
Veterans diagnosed with any psychiatric illness appear to have an elevated risk of suicide, and men with bipolar disorder and women with substance abuse disorders may have a particularly high risk, according to the Archives of General Psychiatry.
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) has agreed to pay more than $1 billion of its $2.4 billion legal expense budget to settle hundreds of Paxil birth defect lawsuits. Families whose children were born with birth defects after their mothers used Paxil will each get an average of $1.2 million from the company. The settlement covers more than 800 of the [...]
Oncologics, lipid regulators, respiratory agents, antidiabetics and anti-ulcerants are the five largest drug classes by sales. But annual sales are only half the story. Which drug classes are booming, and which have plateaued–or even dropped? IMS Health has released top-line industry data revealing the 15 largest drug classes, and we’ve crunched the numbers to take a closer [...]
Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) is looking to its pipeline to fill the gaps left by a number of high-profile drugs coming off patent. In October 2011, blockbuster Zyprexa will fall to generic competition; additionally, about three-quarters of Lilly’s current revenue comes from eight drugs that will lose patent protection between now and 2017. ”We have the challenge [...]
Gulf Coast native Kindra Arnesen is so anxious about the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill she is packing up her family and leaving town. “Stress? Dude my clothes are falling off me (because of weight loss). The level of stress here is tremendous. My husband has aged 10 years in two [...]
Drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants and prescription medications are more and more what people are choosing according to the United Nations Drug Report for 2010. The number using such drugs will eventually exceed those using opiates and cocaine. Drug use in developed countries has remained relatively stable says the document. But in developing countries it [...]
In ongoing work to identify how genes interact with social environments to impact human health, UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death. In addition, they found a specific genetic variation in some individuals that seems to disconnect that link, rendering them more biologically resilient in the face [...]
Researchers and clinicians have for a long time known that people are likely to turn to drugs or alcohol in response to stress. However, there may be more to this equation and link than a simple behavioral reaction to stress. Research conducted by the Baylor University has concluded that a set of genes responsible for [...]
New research, which poses some serious implications on women’s health, is seeking to explain why women develop breast cancer and how they may prevent breast cancer and keep it from recurring. The findings from this new study show that hormonal balance is the best determiner of whether or not a malignant growth in a woman’s [...]
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