Hoarding disorder symptoms may affect nearly 25% of adults with eating disorders, a new multicountry meta-analysis suggests.

When presented with a vignette describing the behaviors and characteristics of a patient with disordered eating, only a quarter of mental health providers who participated in a new study were able to ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Opiant”) (NASDAQ: OPNT), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing pharmacological treatments for addictions ...

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder marked by uncontrollable binge-eating and subsequent purging by vomiting or using laxatives or diuretics. Other compensatory behaviors after binging include ...

Bulimia nervosa (BN), or bulimia, is a mental health disorder characterized by binge eating and a fear of gaining weight, which drives people to try and avoid weight gain, usually by compensatory ...

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by cycles of binge eating and purging through methods like self-induced vomiting or taking laxatives. In the US, it will affect 1.5% of women and up ...

Previous studies have noted that some bulimia nervosa patients have low levels of a hormone called leptin in their blood, while others have normal levels. Researchers from Italy suspect this hormone ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Substance use disorders appeared to increase excess mortality among patients with eating disorders, according to ...

Women with a history of bulimia nervosa are at 4 times the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. It is well known that bulimia nervosa is associated with short-term risk for cardiovascular ...

-Data published in International Journal of Eating Disorders show patients in the Qsymia group had 75% decrease in binge day frequency compared with 19% for placebo- CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov. 20, 2019 ...

In the 1970s, they tried lithium. Then it was zinc and THC. Anti-anxiety drugs had their turn. So did Prozac and SSRIs and atypical antidepressants. Nothing worked. Patients with anorexia were still ...