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Mental Health

This might be worth mentioning in some topic in the Fitness book: criticism of the government's MyPlate icon, Harvard's improvement.

Another possible public health policy topic.

Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists. Ecstasy is known to kill some cancer cells, but scientists have increased its effectiveness 100-fold, they said in Investigational New Drugs journal.

"Mobile health" (mHealth) -- might make a good new topic?

As exciting as such advances are, brain imaging is still primarily a research tool when it comes to mental disorders. Scans are appropriate for ruling out obvious pathology, like brain tumors, as possible causes of symptoms. The differences in brain structure and activity seen in disorders like schizophrenia or ADHD, for example, are typically only meaningful when comparing group statistics. There is simply too much individual variation in brain structure and function for an individual's scan to be diagnostic or predictive, given the current state of the science.

Risperidone worked no better than placebo in easing overall symptoms, study finds

As vaccines go, the flu shot is no exemplar. A comprehensive new review of the research, published online by The Lancet Infectious Diseases, finds that the vaccine prevented illness in 59% of adults aged 18 to 64, and in eight of 12 flu seasons studied.

Another potential public health topic

SEATTLE - A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new U.S. nutritional guidelines, according to a study published Thursday that says the government should do more to help consumers eat healthier.

A strain of Salmonella resistant to the most powerful antibiotics has been found in the UK, France and Denmark. The outbreak emerged in Africa then spread to Europe, picking up antibiotic resistance along the way, says a team of international researchers. They are calling on health officials to step up monitoring to stop the "superbug" spreading globally.

"Questions to ask your doctor" . . . That sounds familiar.

Largest study to date spots more than 50 possible culprits in autoimmune disease.

But behavioral therapy should be first treatment in youngest children.

Apparently all such inhalers are going off the market due to ozone effect. I am really surprised inhalers have an impact.

A study published last week ... indicates that a hand-held auto-injector-much like the epi pens used by people with life-threatening allergies-could be used to treat seizures that don't stop on their own. This could pave the way for home treatment of epileptic seizures.

Johns Hopkins scientists, reporting in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, have identified a small region on chromosome 2 that is associated with increased risk for attempted suicide.

Three new genes linked to the chronic autoimmune disease lupus have been identified by an international team of researchers.

An injection of stem cells given alongside a kidney transplant could remove the need for a lifetime of drugs to suppress the immune system, say scientists.

Stem cell researchers create lung surface tissue in a dish