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Eli Lilly and Co (NYSE: LLY) and Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has issued a positive opinion supporting the approval of Cymbalta® (duloxetine hydrochloride) for the treatment of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
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Eli Lilly and Co (NYSE:
LLY) and Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the Committee for
Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency
(EMEA) has issued a positive opinion supporting the approval of Cymbalta(R)
(duloxetine hydrochloride) for the treatment of Generalised Anxiety
Disorder (GAD).
The positive opinion is based upon the Read the rest of this entry »

An acute session of moderate aerobic exercise, but not heavy aerobic or moderate strength exercises, can reduce the anxiety state and improve the sleep quality of insomnia patients, according to a research abstract presented at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies Read the rest of this entry »

Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol.
Results will Read the rest of this entry »

Individuals who experience military combat obviously endure extreme stress, and this exposure leaves many diagnosed with the psychiatric condition of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. PTSD is associated with several abnormalities in brain structure and function. However, as researcher Roger Pitman explains, "Although it is tempting to conclude that these abnormalities were caused Read the rest of this entry »

Contrary to popular notions about what is normal or healthy, new research has found that it is okay not to express one’s thoughts and feelings after experiencing a collective trauma, such as a school shooting or terrorist attack.
In fact, people who choose not to express their feelings after such an event may be better off than those who do talk about their feelings, according to University at Buffalo psychologist Mark Seery, Ph.D., lead author Read the rest of this entry »

Alexza
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALXA) announced that it has completed
the enrollment in its Phase 2a proof-of-concept clinical trial with AZ-002
(generic diflucan online buy Staccato(R) alprazolam) in patients with panic disorder. AZ-002 is an
inhalation product candidate being developed for the acute treatment of
panic attacks associated with panic disorder. AZ-002 is being Read the rest of this entry »

Next Pharmaceuticals announced the results of a six-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study on Relora conducted on healthy women between the ages of 20 and 50. Relora significantly reduced short-term anxiety compared to the placebo group. The study conducted by Miami Research Associates, a clinical research organization in Miami, Florida, Read the rest of this entry »

The trial is an
eight-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, exploratory study being
conducted in 20 sites in the United States. It will assess the efficacy and
tolerability of rufinamide in up to 230 patients with general anxiety
disorder, as measured by multiple psychometric assessment tools. Patients
randomized to rufinamide will receive 250mg twice a day Read the rest of this entry »

Breast cancer patients who have a prior history of mood and anxiety disorders are at a much higher risk of experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder following their diagnosis, new research suggests.
A study of 74 breast cancer patients at the Ohio State University Medical Center found that 16 percent of them (12 women) suffered from PTSD 18 months after diagnosis.
Women with PTSD were Read the rest of this entry »

Anxiety may influence children’s metabolic health differently according to weight status, says a study presented in Indianapolis at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). After examining the relationship between anxiety and the metabolic syndrome in boys, researchers presented preliminary evidence that treatment strategies geared Read the rest of this entry »

University of Florida researchers have identified a
gene variation in heart disease patients who appear especially
vulnerable to the physical effects of mental stress - to the point where
blood flow to the heart is greatly reduced.
"Searching for the presence of this gene may be one way to better
identify patients who are at an increased Read the rest of this entry »

This study investigates the relationship between personality constructs and different anxiety types among Chinese and Caucasian college students, and found that socially-prescribed perfectionism appeared to be a more accurate predictor of anxiety for the Chinese group as compared to their Caucasian counterparts.
For Read the rest of this entry »

Some university students are drowning in psychological distress and many are not seeking specialist help as new research shows the student life is not as carefree as it might appear.
More than half the 384 students who attended one university health service at a large Queensland urban university last Read the rest of this entry »

Though causes of stress can be plentiful, there are multiple ways to combat stressors and the negative toll they can take on the body, says an expert at the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) 12th-annual Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition.
Christina Geithner, Ph.D., and an ACSM-certified health/fitness instructor, says people experience stress in different ways, depending on the severity Read the rest of this entry »

Work stress, resulting from great pressure at the work place, may increase the progression of atherosclerosis by 46% in people who have highly reactive personalities to stress. This is demonstrated by a study which will be discussed at the XVI World Congress of Cardiology to be held from May 18th - May 22nd in Buenos Aires and will be attended by 15,000 professionals from more than 100 countries.
The study, Read the rest of this entry »

The number of U.S. service members diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder increased by nearly 50% from 2006 to 2007, according to Pentagon data released on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Nearly 40,000 soldiers who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan from 2003 to 2007 have been diagnosed by the military as having PTSD (Scott Tyson, Washington Post, 5/28). In 2007, nearly 14,000 cases of PTSD were diagnosed by military officials, Read the rest of this entry »

"The blood froze in my veins" or "My blood curdled" - these common figures of speech can be taken literally, according to the latest studies. Indeed, more literally than some of us would like. For it turns out that intense fear and panic attacks can really make our blood clot and increase the risk of thrombosis or heart attack.
Earlier studies showed that stress and anxiety can influence coagulation. However, Read the rest of this entry »

Post traumatic stress disorder is commonly thought to effect victims of major trauma and those who witness violence, but a new University of Georgia study finds that it also can affect children who have lost a parent expectedly to diseases such as cancer.
The finding, scheduled to be published in the May issue of the journal Research on Social Work Practice, has major implications for helping children cope with grief, said lead author Read the rest of this entry »

New research from the US suggests that women who are stressed during pregnancy, for example struggling with financial or relationship issues,
are more likely to have babies with immune-related problems such as allergies and asthma.
The research is the work of
scientists from Harvard Medical School, Boston, and other colleagues, and was presented at a recent meeting of the
American Thoracic Read the rest of this entry »

Pfizer’s Lyrica reduced pain of fibromyalgia in patients regardless of whether they experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression at the beginning of the study, according to a pooled analysis presented today at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting. The analysis, which looked at data pooled from previous clinical trials, also showed that patients’ self-reported improvements were more closely associated with improvements Read the rest of this entry »

Inherited variations in the amount of an innate anxiety-reducing molecule help explain why some people can withstand stress better than others, according to a new study led by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
"Stress response is an important variable in vulnerability to alcohol dependence and Read the rest of this entry »

Department of Defense and HHS officials on Wednesday announced a program under which the departments will send 200 psychiatrists, social workers and other mental health care professionals to military facilities to treat the increased number of soldiers who have post-traumatic stress disorder, the Washington Read the rest of this entry »

Wouldn’t it be nice if our doctors could predict accurately whether we would respond to a particular medication? This question is important because research studies provide information about how groups of patients tend to respond to treatments, but inevitably, differences among groups of patients with the same diagnosis mean that findings about groups of Read the rest of this entry »

Right now, about half of all people who take medicine for an anxiety disorder don’t get much help from it. And doctors have no definitive way to predict who will, and who won’t, benefit from each anti anxiety prescription they write.
But a University of Michigan Medical School researcher and his team are working to bring more certainty to how doctors and patients choose anxiety treatments, by probing the connection between Read the rest of this entry »