Archive: 02/12/2014
The biology of anxious temperament may lie with a problem in an anxiety "off switch"
Persistent anxiety is one of the most common and distressing symptoms compromising mental health. Most of the research on the neurobiology of anxiety has focused on the generation of increased anxiety, i.e., the processes ...
Dec 2, 2014
Clitoridectomy and female circumcision in America
Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as female genital mutilations, are not just controversial cultural rites performed in foreign countries.
Dec 2, 2014
Otsuka to buy US drugmaker Avanir for $3.5B
Otsuka Pharmaceutical will spend $3.5 billion in cash to buy Avanir Pharmaceuticals in a deal that expands the Japanese drugmaker's portfolio of neurologic disease treatments.
Dec 2, 2014
Prognostic role found for miR-21 expression in triple-negative breast cancer
"Triple-negative" breast cancer (TNBC) occurs in patients whose cells do not express receptors for estrogen, progesterone, and/or human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (ER-/PR-/HER2-). Because of the absence of these predictive ...
Dec 2, 2014