EmpowHer, the home of womens health online, and NARSAD, the worlds leading charity dedicated to mental health research, are working together in a formal collaboration to spread awareness of the importance of funding brain and behavior disorder research. Through an innovative online partnership, EmpowHer and NARSAD will work together to provide the public with essential [...]

Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have found a traditional extract of Kava, a medicinal plant from the South Pacific, to be safe and effective in reducing anxiety.
To be published online this week in the Springer journal Psychopharmacology, the results of a worldfirst clinical trial which found that a watersoluble extract of Kava [...]

In honor of National Childrens Mental Health Awareness Day, Goldie Hawn, child advocate and founder of The Hawn Foundation, campaigned for effective childrens mental health programs at a Congressional briefing today.
“Children represent a fraction of our population, but 100% of our future. One in ten suffers from serious mental health disorders, and [...]

Higher concentrations of melanin the color pigment in skin and hair may be placing darker pigmented smokers at increased susceptibility to nicotine dependence and tobaccorelated carcinogens than lighter skinned smokers, according to scientists.
“We have found that the concentration of melanin is directly related to the number of cigarettes smoked daily, levels of nicotine [...]

Researchers who investigated the health and lifestyle habits of 54,000 Norwegians 30 years after recruiting them on a study found that the nonsmokers lived longer and had better cardiovascular health than the smokers. They concluded that smoking is “strongly” linked to death and cardiovascular disease.
The study was the work of Professor Haakon Meyer from [...]

“President Obamas push to reenergize the fight against the AIDS epidemic in the United States led to concern that he was going to allow U.S. global leadership in fighting the disease to languish,” a Washington Post editorial says, adding, “Those fears ought to be calmed after Mr. Obamas announcement Tuesday of an initiative that will [...]

“President Obamas push to reenergize the fight against the AIDS epidemic in the United States led to concern that he was going to allow U.S. global leadership in fighting the disease to languish,” a Washington Post editorial says, adding, “Those fears ought to be calmed after Mr. Obamas announcement Tuesday of an initiative that will [...]

“President Obamas push to reenergize the fight against the AIDS epidemic in the United States led to concern that he was going to allow U.S. global leadership in fighting the disease to languish,” a Washington Post editorial says, adding, “Those fears ought to be calmed after Mr. Obamas announcement Tuesday of an initiative that will [...]

Que el número de casos chlamydia aumentó en el 50 % y el número de casos de gonorrea casi doblados en Utah entre 2003 y 2007, según un informe liberado el jueves por el ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Salud, el AP/KUTV.com hace un informe. Muchos hombres y las mujeres no experimentan ningunos síntomas [...]

Terrence Higgins Confianza (THT) busca a homosexuales que viven con el VIH para compartir sus experiencias en línea en su ‘Qué después?’ sitio Web, tht.org.uk/whatnext que proporciona la información y el apoyo expresamente a homosexuales recién diagnosticados. la Parte del sitio Web es escrito de la perspectiva de hombres que [...]