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Mental Health Awareness and Education Website Offers Free Information for Veterans and Their Families Dealing With Suicide and Depression

With Congress wrestling with mental health funding issues and increasing public awareness of soldiers’ suicide rates and depression, MentalHelp.net offers free online information from mental health experts. MentalHelp.net, a site dedicated to educating and informing the public, has announced that additional resources are available on the site for soldiers, their families and anyone with questions about → Continue reading »

BMJ Group teams up with the College of Emergency Medicine

BMJ Learning, part of the BMJ Group, announced today that it has formed a partnership with the College of Emergency Medicine in the UK, to provide Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses for Fellows and Associate Fellows of the College. The new learning resources are provided in a series of modules—those available immediately include courses on self-harm → Continue reading »

XIENCE V Drug Eluting Stent from Abbott Outperforms Market-Leading Stent in Reducing Major Adverse Cardiac Events at Two Years

New Delhi, INDIA - Long-term data presented for the first time today from the SPIRIT III trial, Abbott’s U.S. pivotal trial studying the XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System, demonstrated that XIENCE V continues to deliver clinically superior benefits for patients compared to the TAXUS paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system. In this trial of more → Continue reading »

Yoga Institute announces Speciality Health Camps for May 2008

Mumbai - The Yoga Institute, one of the oldest Yoga Institutes in the world, is organising a series of speciality Health Camps from May 3, 2008 to June 1 at the Institute premises in Santacruz East in Mumbai. The speciality health camps are designed specially for people suffering from Stress, Cardiac ailments and Hypertension, Diabetes and → Continue reading »

Kidney Research UK Marks World Kidney Day With UK Screening Programme Proposals

Peterborough - Kidney Research UK is marking World Kidney Day 2008 with proposals for a UK study of screening for chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is estimated to affect one in 10 of the UK adult population. The proposed programme, which is being supported by unrestricted educational grants from pharmaceutical company Roche and biotechnology company → Continue reading »