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• Flu vaccine strategies should first target people most likely to spread infection
• Swimming intervention benefits children with asthma
• Atopy does not predict adult-onset asthma
• Flu vaccine strategies should first target people most likely to spread infection
• Dyspepsia symptoms common with functional heartburn
• Natural course of pediatric ulcerative colitis is ‘severe’
• Plexitis predicts early CD postoperative clinical recurrence
• Substance abuse increases violence risk in schizophrenia
• Swine flu vaccine trials to begin in children
• JEWEL reports success amlodipine/atorvastatin pill in Canada and Europe
• Anti-aging gene prevents hypertension in rat model
• Sleep and circadian activity abnormal in individuals at hypomania risk
• Schizophrenia treatment response predicted by early improvement
• Doctor-pharmacist collaboration reduces HF hospitalizations in Australia
• Neural response to happy faces differs in major and bipolar depression
• Schizophrenia patients have fear appraisal impairments
• Schizophrenia linked to increases in neuronal density in the cingulate cortex
• Risk for HF, mortality lower with pioglitazone than rosiglitazone
• Psychosocial functioning improved with early intervention for psychosis
• High-risk behavior in BD associated with reduced sensitivity to reward, punishment

Flu vaccine strategies should first target people most likely to spread infection Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT More people would avoid infection with seasonal flu or the H1N1 virus if the first people to receive vaccines are those most likely to transmit infection, rather than to those at highest risk for complications, research suggests.

Swimming intervention benefits children with asthma Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT A swimming program for children with asthma can help improve peak expiratory flow and reduce disease severity, results of a Taiwanese study suggest.

Atopy does not predict adult-onset asthma Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Upper airway conditions, such as rhinitis, and lifestyle factors, such as smoking, are the greatest predictors for adult-onset asthma, researchers have found.

Flu vaccine strategies should first target people most likely to spread infection Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT More people would avoid infection with seasonal flu or the H1N1 virus if the first people to receive vaccines are those most likely to transmit infection, rather than to those at highest risk for complications, research suggests.

Dyspepsia symptoms common with functional heartburn Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Dyspeptic symptoms are more common in patients with functional dyspepsia than those with nonerosive reflux disease whose symptoms are associated with gastroesophageal reflux, European researchers suggest.

Natural course of pediatric ulcerative colitis is ‘severe’ Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT French research suggests that the natural course of pediatric ulcerative colitis is severe, with one in five patients having their colon removed within 5 years.

Plexitis predicts early CD postoperative clinical recurrence Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Submucosal plexitis predicts the early postoperative clinical recurrence of ileal Crohn's disease, a French study suggests.

Substance abuse increases violence risk in schizophrenia Posted: 20 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Although schizophrenia and other psychoses are associated with violence and violent offending, the majority of the risk appears to be conferred by substance abuse comorbidity, scientists have discovered.

Swine flu vaccine trials to begin in children Posted: 20 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Trials of a candidate 2009 H1N1 vaccine are to begin in children after trials in adults raised no significant safety concerns, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has announced.

JEWEL reports success amlodipine/atorvastatin pill in Canada and Europe Posted: 20 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Single-pill amlodipine/atorvastatin treatment enables many people in Canada and Europe to achieve joint low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and blood pressure-lowering targets, report investigators from the JEWEL program.

Anti-aging gene prevents hypertension in rat model Posted: 20 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT US scientists report that a newly discovered anti-aging gene may be linked to the development of hypertension.

Sleep and circadian activity abnormal in individuals at hypomania risk Posted: 20 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Individuals at high risk for hypomania have alterations in sleep and circadian activity similar to those seen in bipolar disorder patients, indicating that such phenomena are not simply an artefact of the illness, conclude UK researchers.

Schizophrenia treatment response predicted by early improvement Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Early improvement with treatment among schizophrenia patients is a predictor of subsequent response, the findings of a naturalistic study reveal, echoing those from clinical drug trials.

Doctor-pharmacist collaboration reduces HF hospitalizations in Australia Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Patients with heart failure whose doctors and pharmacists collaborate to help them adhere to medical therapy are less likely to be hospitalized than patients receiving usual management, a study in Australia found.

Neural response to happy faces differs in major and bipolar depression Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder patients have differences in amygdala and orbitomedial prefrontal cortex effective connectivity in response to happy faces, say researchers.

Schizophrenia patients have fear appraisal impairments Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT A study of emotion antecedents in patients with schizophrenia suggests that they have difficulty processing fearful emotions, which may reflect a lower degree of emotional awareness than in healthy individuals.

Schizophrenia linked to increases in neuronal density in the cingulate cortex Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Study results show an increased neuronal density of white matter in the cingulate cortex in schizophrenia and in some cases of bipolar disorder, suggesting that the two disorders may share a common underlying defect in neurodevelopment.

Risk for HF, mortality lower with pioglitazone than rosiglitazone Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Results from a retrospective cohort study show that pioglitazone treatment for Type 2 diabetes is associated with a lower risk for heart failure and death, but not myocardial infarction, than rosiglitazone treatment.

Psychosocial functioning improved with early intervention for psychosis Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Initial improvements in substance abuse and psychopathology do not continue to improve over the course of treatment for first-episode psychosis at an Early Intervention for Psychosis Service, despite significant improvements in psychosocial functioning, show study results.

High-risk behavior in BD associated with reduced sensitivity to reward, punishment Posted: 17 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Risk-taking behavior in bipolar disorder is not characterized by a generalized tendency to risk-taking, but involves reduced sensitivity to psychologic factors that promote and inhibit risky behavior related to value outcomes, suggest study results.

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