It's Not All In Your Head: How Worrying About Your Health Could Be Making You Sick - and What You Can Do About It

It's Not All In Your Head: How Worrying About Your Health Could Be Making You Sick - and What You Can Do About It 

By Watt, Margo C GORDON J. G. ASMUNDSON
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Children With Obsessive-compulsive Disorder 
Cognitive behavioral therapy reduces the severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents, according to a new review. This form of treatment helps relieve the overall distress and reduces the interference that OCD symptoms can cause in young people's lives.
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Children With Higher Intelligence Appear To Have Reduced Risk Of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder 
Children who are more intelligent at age 6 may be less likely to experience trauma by age 17 and if they do, may be less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In contrast, children who have anxiety disorders and conduct problems at age 6 appear more likely to develop PTSD
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Patient Recruitment For Desmoteplase Phase IIB/III Stroke Study DIAS-2 Placed On Hold 
Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and its development partner for desmoteplase, PAION AG (Aachen, Germany), today announced that the Steering Committee of the Phase IIB/III stroke study, DIAS-2, has decided in agreement with the Companies to place patient recruitment temporarily on hold until further data have been analyzed. [click link for full article]
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