New Treatments http://www.akgmag.com/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:00:07 -0500 By Nancy L. Young-Houser. In 1994 the Angiogenesis Foundation was created by a group of men --- Harvard trained physicians, scientists and humanitarians --- who do angiogenesis research in order to conquer and prevent diseases that have been considered "unbeatable". Angiogenesis is a process upon which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself. This process allows the tumor to sustain its existence. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Antiogenesis_Research_Prevents_Unbeatable_Diseases.htm Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Antiogenesis_Research_Prevents_Unbeatable_Diseases.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. All mental health professionals diagnose their clients from the DSM, or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This manual is the Bible of psychiatry, covering the identity of patients with mental health issues, how mental health professionals treat their patients and how they approach their illness, the psychiatric drugs --- their development and how they are prescribed, and the many different insurance plans and which drugs they cover. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Consequence_of_the_New_Guidelines_by_the_American_Psychiatric_Association.htm Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Consequence_of_the_New_Guidelines_by_the_American_Psychiatric_Association.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. In 1817, lithium salts were first used by doctors to treat gout with the doctors eventually discovering it was also capable of stabilizing moods. One documentation has it that one doctor felt that gout was the cause of mood disorders. But it wasn't until 1949 that John Cade, an Australian psychiatrist, actually published a paper on the use of lithium as a successful treatment of acute mania. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Lithium__a_50_Year_Old_Treatment_for_Bipolar_Disorder.htm Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Lithium__a_50_Year_Old_Treatment_for_Bipolar_Disorder.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. In today's times, scientists are testing new ideas and treatments for not only depression but bipolar disorder. Referred to as manic-depression, this is a disease that has not had a successful medication developed specifically for it since the development of lithium over 50 years ago. Occurring in 1 out 25 adults, bipolar disorder has a median age of 25 years that can begin in early childhood or in the 50s. http://www.akgmag.com/article/New_Treatments_for_Bipolar_Disorder.htm Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/New_Treatments_for_Bipolar_Disorder.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Several studies and new techniques are coming to the forefront every day with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The MRIs are assisting researchers to discover brain changes much earlier in Alzheimer's disease patients to facilitate earlier treatments. http://www.akgmag.com/article/MRI_s_Influence_on_Alzheimer_s_Disease.htm Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/MRI_s_Influence_on_Alzheimer_s_Disease.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. New Alzheimer testing methods consist of more than nothing spitting in a test tube, allowing more and more people to take that first move toward fighting Alzheimer's disease and becoming their first advocate. But in actuality, many types of tests are available depending on the location, hospital, or doctor involved. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Testing_for_Alzheimer_s_Disease.htm Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Testing_for_Alzheimer_s_Disease.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. COPD refers to chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases---asthma, pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema---with growing factors for COPD involving excess worrying, death and disability. The World Health Organization reports that the top five respiratory diseases account for 17.4% of the worldwide 24 million deaths every year, involving bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, pneumonia, and lung cancer. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Alternative_Treatments_for_COPD.htm Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Alternative_Treatments_for_COPD.htm