Toward smarter selection of therapy for psychiatric disorders
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - For patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD), current behavioral and pharmaceutical treatments work about half the time. After weeks of investment in therapy, about half of patients will likely still suffer with symptoms of anxiety, and have little choice but to try again with something else. This trial-and-error process - inevitable due to an absence of tools to guide treatment selection - is time-consuming and expensive, and some patients eventually just give up.
Duke Provides Infection Control Steps to Keep Pro Football Players Healthy
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Durham, North Carolina - Keeping any team healthy is an important and daunting challenge, but the task is amplified in the National Football League when a bug that spreads rapidly through locker rooms and training facilities can impact an entire season.
Depressed teens at risk of heart disease, early monitoring urged
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Dallas, Texas - For the first time, experts urge early monitoring for heart and blood vessel disease among teens with major depression or bipolar disorder, according to an American Heart Association scientific statement. “Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder Predispose Youth to Accelerated Atherosclerosis and Early Cardiovascular Disease” is published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association.
Cellular factors that shape the 3D landscape of the genome identified
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Washington, DC - Researchers, using novel large-scale imaging technology, have mapped the spatial location of individual genes in the nucleus of human cells and identified 50 cellular factors required for the proper three-dimensional (3D) positioning of genes. These spatial locations play important roles in gene expression, DNA repair, genome stability, and other cellular activities.
Mapping Cancer Deaths by US Congressional District Shows Wide Variation
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Washington, DC - Cancer death rates vary nearly two-fold when mapped by U.S. congressional district, with rates generally lowest in Mountain states and highest in Appalachia and areas of the South, according to a new analysis by American Cancer Society researchers.
NIH analysis shows Americans are in pain
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Washington, DC - A new analysis of data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has found that most American adults have experienced some level of pain, from brief to more lasting pain, and from relatively minor to more severe pain.
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