News tagged with persistence
Effectively managing pain with depression
Pain, the most common reason for adults to visit a primary care physician, and depression, the most frequent mental complaint requiring a doctor's appointment, occur together as often as half the time.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 26, 2009 |
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Cognitive behavior therapy appears beneficial for long-term treatment of insomnia
For patients with persistent insomnia, a combination of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and the medication zolpidem for 6 weeks was associated with improvement in sleep, although for a longer treatment period CBT alone was ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 19, 2009 |
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UN: Treaty expanded by 9 more dangerous chemicals
(AP) -- A U.N.-sponsored treaty to combat highly dangerous chemicals has been expanded beyond the original "dirty dozen" to include nine more substances that are used in pesticides, flame retardants and other products, U.N. ...
May 09, 2009 |
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Study of 'Persistent Currents' Finally Verifies Theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Approximately 20 years ago, scientists discovered that is is possible for an electric current to flow endlessly in a ring made of a normal metal. One might think that such an 'old' finding ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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E. coli persists against antibiotics through HipA-induced dormancy
Bacteria hunker down and survive antibiotic attack when a protein flips a chemical switch that throws them into a dormant state until treatment abates, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Study first to pinpoint why analgesic drugs may be less potent in females than in males
(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigators at Georgia State University’s Neuroscience Institute and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience are the first to identify the most likely reason analgesic drug treatment is usually less potent in ...
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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