Clinical Trials Update: June 24, 2008

(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)

If your child is a hospitalized person, aged 17 or younger, and requires acid suppression therapy to treat suspected, symptomatic or proven GERD, the child or adolescent may qualify to participate in this study.

The research site is in Little Rock, Ark.

More information

Please see http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/studi....

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Anxiety Disorders

FRIDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer patients are more than twice as likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder if they have had previous mood and anxiety disorders, new research suggests.

About 16 percent of the 74 breast cancer patients studied by researchers at the Ohio State University Medical experienced PTSD 18 months after their cancer diagnosis. These same patients were three times more likely to have had anxiety disorders.