A million Britons live with the hell of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Nadine Stewart was convinced she was going to die. Just ten minutes after setting off for a pop concert with her sister, she felt a tingling sensation in her arms and pain in her chest.‘I knew I was having a heart attack,’ says Nadine, 41, a customer services adviser from Morecambe, Lancashire. ‘I begged...

How the warnings on bottles of alcohol could look if the UK Faculty of Public Health’s proposal is taken up

How the warnings on bottles of alcohol could look if the UK Faculty of Public Health’s proposal is taken up. Photograph: GNM imagingBottles of beer, wine and spirits should carry cigarette-style graphic health warnings to make clear that alcohol is linked to cancer, infertility and violence,...

Ted Nugent's drummer flees police in golf cart

Bangor Police DepartmentMick Brown's mug shot.By Gael Fashingbauer CooperPeople are always fleeing police, but usually it's in a vehicle where they have a chance to get away. That wasn't the case for Mick Brown, drummer for Ted Nugent, who tried to make his escape in a golf cart, according to the...

Rating films with smoking 'R' will cut smoking onset by teens, experts say

New research from Norris Cotton Cancer Center estimates, for the first time, the impact of an R rating for movie smoking. James Sargent, MD, co-director of the Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, emphasizes that an R rating for any film showing smoking could substantially reduce smoking onset in U.S. adolescents -- an effect size similar to making all parents maximally...

What Club Drug May Help Depression?

Antidepressants not working for you?Psychotherapy a drag? Supplements no better than a sugar pill?You might want to check out a drug more popularly known among the club scene and all-night dance parties than for the treatment of depression.As we reported last month, researchers are taking...

Revolutionary new drug Vivitrol offers new life to addicts

Friday is Amanda Gordon's one-year anniversary of being clean from heroin and prescription drugs, a remarkable recovery she never expected to achieve because she had failed so many times before.But a monthly injection of Vivitrol has accomplished what nothing else did, including nine stints in hospital detox programs.Her mother, Katherine Gordon, an automotive warranty specialist grateful for...

New law allows families to force addicts into treatment

An Ohio law that allows families to force a loved one into addiction treatment has been used only once since it went into effect in March. Though the law is new, it has created debate about whether involuntary treatment will work and if the law is unfair because it is only available to families who can afford to foot the bill. The Cuyahoga County case, which involved a young woman with a severe alcohol...

Diabetes drug makes brain cells grow

The widely used diabetes drug metformin comes with a rather unexpected and alluring side effect: it encourages the growth of new neurons in the brain. The study reported in the July 6th issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, also finds that those neural effects of the drug also make mice smarter. See Also: Health & Medicine Brain Tumor Stem Cells Nervous System Mind & Brain Brain...