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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The controversial diagnosis "social phobia" is a legitimate psychiatric condition and is not the same as shyness, government researchers say in a new report.Based on a large national survey, they found cases of social phobia among teens ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding talk therapy to medication helps some kids and teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder, according to a new study.Medications such as fluoxetine (Prozac) or sertraline (Zoloft) are often the first-line treatment for kids who have OCD.However, "Most kids ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People who drink or use drugs to calm anxious nerves are at increased risk of developing full-blown substance abuse problems later on, according to a study.The work by Canadian researchers writing in the Archives of General Psychiatry, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Anxiety increases heart patients' likelihood of suffering a heart attack, stroke, or heart failure, new research shows.And the link between anxiety and such events can't be explained by health behaviors like smoking, severity of disease, or biological ...
A study from Swiss researchers suggests heart disease in middle-aged men may be linked to previous bouts of anxiety in young adulthood.. The research, which followed almost 50,000 Swedish men for 37 years, found that those who suffered from anxiety disorder as ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study adds to evidence that pregnancy may worsen or bring on symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in some women -- suggesting, researchers say, that certain cases of the disorder involve abnormal responses to hormonal changes.Obsessive-compulsive disorder, ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half the people participating in a study of hair-pullers got help for their compulsion from an over-the-counter supplement called N-acetylcysteine, researchers said on Monday.The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, suggests the inexpensive supplements might ...
LONDON (Reuters) - German scientists believe they may have found a better anxiety drug that can counteract panic attacks without the side effects caused by existing treatments like Valium.Anxiety drugs such as Valium work well but produce side-effects that include drowsiness, forgetfulness ...
