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Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010 Former President Bill
Clinton was granted clemency yesterday...his heart given a unique version of a
belated presidential pardon.
Yesterday, former President Bill Clinton was
taken to a Manhattan hospital where he
had two stents installed in his
coronary arteries. With a former history of heart
trouble that included quadruple bypass surgery, Clinton ignored chest pains
for more than two days until having the surgery to remedy a blocked graft from
that past surgery.
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Posted on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 The American Psychiatric Association yesterday released a draft of the new, proposed DSM-V diagnostic criteria.
Among the
litany of changes, new categories of learning disorders and a single
diagnostic category for autism and other socialization disorders were outlined as were the elimination of
"substance abuse" and "substance dependence" as disorders, with a single "addiction and related
disorders" category. Additionally, the creation
of a "behavioral addictions" category will
include gambling and binge eating but not
the Internet or sex addiction. The list of
possible changes goes on and on...
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Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 In a study to be published today in JAMA (embargoed
until 4 p.m.), lower levels of Serotonin in brain
tissue are associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the
mysterious death of infants in their sleep, usually when they’re less than a
year old.
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Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 CLEVELAND – One year into a 10-year, first-ever
Department of Defense-funded study of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in
soldiers in the Ohio Army National Guard (OHARNG), initial findings suggest that
thoughts of suicide within the OHARNG do not appear to be related to recent
deployment to combat.
The baseline cohort of this study consists of 2,616 service members who have received one-hour research telephone interviews that will be followed up by yearly assessments through 2019. Five hundred of those participants were randomly selected and have completed a detailed, two-to-three hour in-person assessments.
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Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2010
Your tubby teenager may be developing
behavioral habits that could be leading to adulthood disease.
According to a newly released study from
the CDC, the heavier teens were between
the ages of 12-19, the more likely they were to have high and unhealthy levels of bad cholesterol
(LDL) as adults. Additional data in the study also notes that even 14%
of teens who appeared svelte with a normal body weight, were found to have unhealthy cholesterol
levels.
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital Dr. Carolyn Landis, an
adolescent psychologist and director of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight
program, said this is further evidence that parents need to make sure
their children remain active and help
form healthy eating habits at an early age...
Additionally, University Hospitals Case
Medical Center's Dr. Dan Simon, chief of cardiovascular medicine, can discuss
the new findings in the study as it relates to the need for potential heart
screenings of younger patients who could have elevated cholesterol levels...
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