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AstraZeneca announced its submission of SEROQUEL XR (quetiapine fumarate extended release tablets) to European regulatory authorities seeking approval for both short-term and maintenance treatment of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD).

Michael Mullen, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently proposed that all returning combat troops undergo screening for post-traumatic stress disorder with a mental health professional, according to USA Today.

An Australian study has flagged an important truth for the medical research community. Like their human counterparts, male and female mice are not only different, their respective genetic responses can often be the reverse of what you’d expect from pharmacological results. This has important ramifications for laboratory and clinical testing.

Despite anxiety and stress being one of today’s most common disorders, it is regularly under diagnosed by medical professionals.

Many women know the overwhelmed feeling caused by too much to do and too little time. Better time management can help you do more. And it has health benefits, such as less stress and a better quality of life. The October issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource offers tips to improve time management. The recommendation is to try one strategy for two to four weeks to see if it helps.

Ute Lawrence is a survivor of one of the most horrific car pile-ups in Canadian history, involving 87 vehicles and killing eight people. The trauma changed her life, bringing personal distress and the end of her 22-years as a magazine publisher.

The declining state of the Nation’s economy is taking a physical and emotional toll on all people nationwide, yet financial stress is impacting women and Hispanics in particular, according to data from the American Psychological Association’s newly released 2008 Stress in America survey.

Pregnant women who are stressed, particularly late in pregnancy, have an increased risk of their child going on to develop asthma. So finds a British study conducted on a cohort of over 5,800 families and presented in Berlin at the Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS).

Americans are feeling more stress than they did six months ago, according to a new national stress study. The survey of 1,000 men and women, ages 18 and older, revealed that 47 percent of respondents currently feel more stress than they did six months ago.

Deployed peacekeeping veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have significant impairments in health-related quality of life according to research by Dr. J. Donald Richardson of The University of Western Ontario and his co-investigators.