New Study Demonstrates Cost Effectiveness of NeuroStar TMS Therapy(R) in the Treatment of Depression.
Cost Savings for the Health Care System May Be Expected With NeuroStar Relative to Standard Care in Patients With Inadequate Benefit to Prior Antidepressant Treatment MALVERN, Pa., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuronetics, Inc. announced today that a new health economic study evaluating the cost effectiveness of its...

Repligen Initiates Phase 2b Clinical Trial of RG2417 in Bipolar Disorder.
WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Repligen Corporation announced today that the Company has initiated a Phase 2b clinical trial to evaluate the use of RG2417, an oral formulation of uridine, in patients with bipolar depression. This Phase 2b study is a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in...

Relationship functioning among adult children of alcoholics.
RESEARCH INDICATES THAT children of alcoholics (COAs) are at increased risk for a variety of negative outcomes, including substance abuse, antisocial behavior, mood disorders (e.g., depression and anxiety), academic underachievement, low self-esteem, and relational difficulties (e.g., Beesley and Stoltenberg, 2002; Chassin et al., 2002; Dawson, 2000; Harter, 2000; Jackson...

Symptoms can persist despite long-term SSRI treatment.
BARCELONA -- Despite long-term treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, many depressed patients cared for by primary care physicians continue to experience symptoms that affect their daily lives, according to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom. Only a minority of these patients were satisfied with their...

Is Financial Crisis the Reason for Your Back Pain? Leading Pain Doctor Says Talking, Walking, Laughing and Sex Can Help.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Is Wall Street to blame for your back pain? If you've been suffering from back, neck or shoulder pain lately, much of it could be a direct result of the financial crisis gripping the world, says pain specialist Norman Marcus, M.D.,...

Homewatch CareGivers Offers Tips for Healthier Holidays.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-14 November 2008-Homewatch CareGivers Offers Tips for Healthier Holidays(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Holiday stress has a heavy impact on the elderly, according to Homewatch CareGivers, a full-service provider of in-home senior care. "Our elder care clients face physical limitations, declining health,...

Bob Woodruff Foundation and JWT Introduce Marketing Campaign and Unveil www.ReMIND.org.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- "Support our troops" is no longer just a slogan -- it's also an action, with the launch of http://www.remind.org/ and a new marketing campaign for the renamed Bob Woodruff Family Foundation, created with the pro bono support of JWT Atlanta. By...

Video: IAVA and Ad Council Launch National PSA Campaign for Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Time for Veterans Day, Campaign Directs Veterans to the First and Only Online Community Created Exclusively for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans NEW YORK, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to help ease the transition and readjustment challenges facing Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in their return...

Beating the blues: new approaches are lifting the veil of melancholy for millions of Americans.
For as long as he could remember, Frank de Falco lived with a mild melancholy. Like background noise, it was there but he'd never thought much of it until the birth of his first child in 1995, when he began to consider what he wanted to be like as...

Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy.
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy. By Eric G. Wilson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 176 pp., $20.00. In 1621 Robert Burton published The Anatomy of Melancholy, and now, nearly 400 years later, Eric Wilson has given us what amounts to an apology for...