HBNS.org - A positive life cycle helps body and soul: Healthy people might be happier, and a new study shows that people who are happy and satisfied with their lives might be healthier.
Moreover, the benefit comes with a quick turnaround time, with greater happiness possibly boosting health in as little as three years.
“Everything else being [...]

Women are 33 percent more likely than men to experience full remission with citalopram (Celexa).
UMich.edu - Women with depression may be much more likely than men to get relief from a commonly used, inexpensive SSRI antidepressant medication - citalopram - a new national study finds. But many members of both sexes may find that it [...]

It’s often labeled attention deficit disorder, but experts say what may be the real problem behind thousands of children’s behavior problems could actually be sleep apnea.
According to ear, nose and throat physicians, enlarged tonsils can cause obstructive sleep apnea in children, causing them to stop breathing repeatedly during the night resulting in sleep deprivation.
“If kids [...]

Elderly patients who are prescribed a conventional, or first-generation, antipsychotic medication are at an increased risk of death from cardiovascular or respiratory diseases as compared to those who take an atypical, or second-generation, antipsychotic medication, according to a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The new study, “Potential Causes of Higher Mortality [...]

Rochester.edu - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved tetrabenazine in August 2008, the first drug approved for use in the United States to treat Huntington’s disease - a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no cure. The action comes about eight months after an advisory panel unanimously voted to advise FDA to [...]

Sleeping pills not a good long-term solution, but better bedtime habits could help relieve insomnia.
IQWiG.de - Many people sleep better when during holidays and wish that they could sleep as well all the time. But according to the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), it is not only being free of [...]