Devins Launches Console's National Snowdrop Day, Ireland Dr Jimmy Devins, T.D., Minister for State at the Department of
Health and Children with special responsibility for disability and mental
health, today (Thursday, 27th March 2008) launched Console's National Snowdrop Day to raise funds to support their professional counselling, support and helpline services. The Minister said "Providing hope to those who have been bereaved as a result of suicide is an invaluable gift.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNSAIDs: Painkillers, Inflammation Inhibitors, Anti-Cancer Drugs And New De-Methylating Agents Researchers at the National Sun Yat-Sen University and Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan have revealed a new mechanism by which nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs (NSAIDs) attenuate tumor invasion and metastasis. The research, to be published in the April 2008 issue of Experimental Biology and
Medicine, provides new insights for the understanding of the anti-cancer effects of NSAIDs.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCognitive 'Rigidity' In Compulsive Gamblers Gambling addicts don't learn from their mistakes, according to a study published in the open access journal Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental
Health. The problem could be explained by a kind of mental rigidity that leads to harmful compulsive behaviour in sufferers.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comIndia's National AIDS Project Reaching Out To MSM, Other Groups Officials with India's National Aids Control Project III are focusing their prevention efforts at men who have sex with men, as well as other vulnerable groups, in an effort to reduce the number of new HIV cases in the country, the Times of India reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHealth Minister Gives Go-Ahead For New Mental Health Unit, Wales £21.3m development to help meet One Wales commitment to improve mental
health servicesTwo new mental
health units at Wrexham Maelor Hospital were given the green light by
Health Minister Edwina Hart. The Welsh Assembly Government is providing £21.3m funding for the two developments.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMale Contraception: The Right Combination Of Hormones Holds The Key Hormonal contraception may become a safe, effective, and reversible form of birth control for men, according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). The study revealed that the combination of testosterone and progestin suppressed sperm production faster and more completely than testosterone alone.
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