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Childhood abuse doubles the risk of developing multiple and long-lasting episodes of depression, say scientists.

A review, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, also suggests these patients are less likely to respond to treatment.

Nearly one in 20 people in the UK has this form of depression as a result of childhood abuse, say researchers.

The charity Sane said the study highlighted how damaging childhood trauma could be. Read more…

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was recently briefed by the federal government on new intelligence that shows terrorists could be using breast implants as surgically implanted bombs. At his Sacramento plastic surgery practice, Dr. Charles Perry discusses the likelihood of such an event, and how a terrorist could turn a procedure like breast augmentation into a potentially destructive threat. Read more…

A critically ill baby from Torquay is recovering in hospital after undergoing a liver transplant in Birmingham.

One-month-old Lottie Bryon-Edmond underwent the surgery on Thursday night at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

She needed the transplant after developing the rare condition neonatal haemochromatosis, which meant toxic levels of iron built up in her liver. Read more…

The Obama administration’s health- care overhaul unconstitutionally requires Americans to maintain a minimum level of health insurance, a federal judge ruled, striking down the linchpin of the plan.

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson in Richmond, Virginia, said yesterday that the mandate on individuals in President Barack Obama’s health-care legislation goes beyond Congress’s powers to regulate interstate commerce. Hudson severed the issue of the mandate, which is set to become effective in 2014, and didn’t address other provisions such as expanding Medicaid.

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Which drug company is the best? One way to measure them is to look at how many new drugs (“new molecular entities” is the technical term) each has produced. Over the past decade, there’s a clear winner: Novartis.

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After you get past the bullish headline on PricewaterhouseCoopers’ release on second quarter venture funding in the life sciences industry–up 37%!–you’ll find that year-over-year the stream of venture dollars flowing into biotech shriveled, with significantly fewer deals available to finance new drug development.

Drawing from data gathered by Thomson Reuters, the PwC/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report concluded that second quarter “biotechnology investing declined by 9% in dollars and dropped 24% in deals year-over-year with $1.2 billion going into 116 deals.”

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US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has made the first compensation payment to Nigerian families affected by a controversial drug trial 15 years ago.

It paid $175,000 (£108,000) each to four families in the first of a series of payments it is expected to make.

The payouts are part of an out-of-court settlement reached in 2009. Read more…