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Diseases and Disorders

Clubbers screened for chlamydia

More than 100 clubbers in an East Yorkshire town have been tested for chlamydia as part of a drive to tackle the infection. A team has been screening clubbers aged between 15 and 25 at the Utopia nightclub in Bridlington for...

Motherhood 'makes women brainier and can protect them from degenerative diseases'

Clever idea: Motherhood 'remodels' the female brain improving mental agility and health Becoming a mother 'remodels' the female brain giving lifelong improvement in mental agility and protection against degenerative diseases,...

Pipeline, Partnerships, and Presentations: Genentech Commits to Ophthalmology

By Jennifer Kreatsoulas, News & Contributing Editor Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, CA) has been a leader in the biotech space for the past 3 decades, using human genetic information to discover, develop, manufacture, and...

Roche is right

Welcome to Herald Sun. Skip to: THAT pharmaceutical giant Roche has invited marathon champion Kerryn McCann to apply for the drug Avastin at a reduced cost is welcome news. Fighting breast cancer that has spread to her liver,...

J&J, Family Link intensify support for mentally ill

Johnson & Johnson (Philippines) Inc. recently strengthened its partnership with Family Link with the extension for another year of the company’s support for the Mental Health Awareness Program, an initiative supporting mentally...

U.S. controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears

When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd...

AIDS vaccine focus shifts after disappointments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global AIDS vaccine conference this week will seek fresh strategies against the HIV virus, with experts weighing the value of basic laboratory research against large-scale human clinical trials after a...

Who should pay for treating autism in children?

Grant Fulton is a busy boy. And this year, the debate comes to Washington state with a proposed law by a group called Washington Autism Advocacy that would govern insurance coverage for autism. The therapy that’s been so...

Study: Kids' bipolar disorder lingers into young adulthood

Charlie Crow, 13, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2001, smiles during a fishing trip at a park in Verona, N.J., in 2007. A new study strongly suggests that many children with bipolar disorder continue to have bouts...

More attention must be paid to mental health care: UN chief

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for scaled up resources and efforts to provide mental health care to those who need it, and for protecting the human rights of those with severe disorders. “Mental...