Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago used functional brain imaging to research an established connection between emotional impairment and low cognition in children with bipolar disorder.

Dr. Mani Pavuluri, associate professor of psychiatry at UIC's Institute for Juvenile Research and the Center for Cognitive Medicine is the lead author of the study. He says, "This study is very exciting because it shows that negative emotions affect cognition differently than positive emotions in these kids

Acording to a new study by the Keystone Research Center and Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, the number of Pennsylvanians with employer-provided health insurance declined by 4.1 percent between 2000 and 2004.

The decline signals that about 494,000 fewer Pennsylvanians get health insurance through their employer today than did in 2000. One in seven of the people who lost employer-provided health insurance coverage in the U.S. between 2000 and 2004 lived in Pennsylvania

New anaylsis finds a diabetes pill, on its way toward federal approval, doubles the risks of deaths, heart attacks and strokes. Muraglitazar, to be sold under the name Pargluva for treatment of Type 2 diabetes, was endorsed by a Food and Drug Administration panel last month.

Researchers with the Cleveland Clinic analyzed the data on the drug, developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck & Co., which the FDA made public before the panel vote

A newly formed coalition of the state's major health and children's advocacy groups has initiated a campaign to pass a $1.50 increase in the state's cigarette tax on the November 2006 ballot.

Funds from the Tobacco Tax, Disease Prevention and Children's Health Insurance Act will be used to strengthen and expand existing tobacco prevention efforts, disease prevention, treatment and research programs such as those for heart disease and stroke, cancer and lung disease, and would also provide funding so that every child in California can receive affordable health care insurance

A newly formed coalition of the state's major health and children's advocacy groups has initiated a campaign to pass a $1.50 increase in the state's cigarette tax on the November 2006 ballot.

Funds from the Tobacco Tax, Disease Prevention and Children's Health Insurance Act will be used to strengthen and expand existing tobacco prevention efforts, disease prevention, treatment and research programs such as those for heart disease and stroke, cancer and lung disease, and would also provide funding so that every child in California can receive affordable health care insurance