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In-Patient Suicides Reduced In Psychiatric Units

Suicides by psychiatric in-patients have fallen to a new low, research just published has found...

Reduction In Deaths After The Painkiller Co-Proxamol Withdrawn In The UK

During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. These are the findings of a study by Keith Hawton of the University of Oxford, UK and colleagues and published in this week's PLoS Medicine...

Kids Born After 42 Weeks Have Higher Behavioral Problems Risk

According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children born after 42 weeks of pregnancy (post-term birth) are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems, in early childhood...

Tackling Childhood Disabilities Through Environment

The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines...

Dopamine Response Influences How Hard We Work

People with a greater dopamine response in the reward and motivation areas of the brain - the striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex - tend to try harder, even when the odds are stacked up against them, compared to those with low dopamine response, researchers from University reported in The Journal of Neuroscience. The authors believe that dopamine influences cost-benefit analyses...

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