Sunday, March 14, 2010

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Medical News


Anxiety reduces exercise performance and QoL in COPD

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

The presence of anxiety is associated with reduced exercise performance and health-related quality of life and increased dyspnea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, research shows.

Vaccinating children against seasonal flu helps protect wider community

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Results from a Canadian study conducted in a largely self-contained religious community show that immunizing children against seasonal influenza can significantly protect unvaccinated individuals against infection.

Formoterol effective for asthma exacerbations

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis indicate that the long-acting beta-2 agonist formoterol is as effective for the treatment of asthma exacerbations as short-acting beta-2 agonists.

Vaccinating children against seasonal flu helps protect wider community

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Results from a Canadian study conducted in a largely self-contained religious community show that immunizing children against seasonal influenza can significantly protect unvaccinated individuals against infection.

Endoscopic resection ‘an essential grading tool’ in Barrett’s HGD and EAC

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Endoscopic resection can alter histological staging or tumor grading in almost half of patients with Barrett's high-grade dysplasia and early esophageal adenocarcinoma who undergo biopsy, research suggests.

Social anhedonia linked to interpersonal deficits in schizophrenia

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Patients with schizophrenia and otherwise mentally healthy individuals with social anhedonia both show deficits in adopting the perspective of others, study results demonstrate.

Psychiatric disorders vary in underlying serotonin pathology

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia display a diminished loudness dependence of the auditory evoked potential relative to mentally healthy controls, study results show.

Psychiatric disorders vary in underlying serotonin pathology

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia display a diminished loudness dependence of the auditory evoked potential relative to mentally healthy controls, study results show.

Depressive symptoms affect subjective wellbeing in schizophrenia patients

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Depressive symptoms are significantly associated with low subjective wellbeing in newly admitted patients with schizophrenia, study findings suggest.

Adipose-secreted signals associated with different clinical BP phenotypes

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Normal blood pressure and white-coat hypertension are associated with a more favorable circulating adipokine pattern than masked or sustained hypertension, Greek researchers report.

Salt tax could massively reduce US mortality rates, healthcare costs

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

A nationwide tax on sodium could save over a million life years and billions of dollars, results of a US cost-analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicate.

Variant serotonin receptor linked to alcohol abuse in bipolar disorder

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Bipolar disorder patients with comorbid alcohol use disorder show a higher frequency of a serotonin transporter gene polymorphism than their peers with no alcohol comorbidity, research shows.

WBC linked to metabolic syndrome risk, severe psychiatric symptoms in schizophrenia

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

White blood cell count may be useful for predicting the metabolic syndrome and more severe psychiatric symptoms in non-diabetic patients with schizophrenia, say US researchers.

Study replicates <i>BRD1</i> gene link to schizophrenia, BD susceptibility

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

The bromo-domain containing protein 1 gene is implicated in the susceptibility to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, confirm findings of an association study.

Black, Hispanics with HF less likely to receive hospice treatment than Whites

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Black and Hispanic patients with heart failure are less likely to use hospice care than are White patients, a study of a US national sample of Medicare beneficiaries indicates.

Distorted self-representation uncommon in euthymic BD patients

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Previous observations of distorted self-representation in clinical samples of patients with bipolar disorder may represent a scar of previous depressive or manic episodes rather than act as a predisposing factor, say UK researchers who found no strong evidence of increased distorted self-representation in a sample of BD individuals.

Strong link exists between bipolar spectrum disorders, ADHD

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST

Researchers suggest that adults with bipolar spectrum disorder often present with co-morbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

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