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• VTE recurrence risk not increased with thrombophilic mutations
• Indoor ETS increases lower airway symptoms, decreases lung function
• NNMT expression increased in skeletal muscles of COPD patients
• Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy increases ILT3, ILT4 levels in cord blood
• MIS level does not predict breast cancerpost-chemotherapy menstrual status
• TGF-beta1 gene -509 C/T polymorphism is not linked to endometriosis
• Follicular fluids may reveal whether oocytes will be successful in IVF
• ISMI produces similar top-quality embryos to ICSI
• Pain relief dosage during oocyte removal does not affect IVF results
• IVF outcome adversely affected by air pollution
• Questions remain over ‘autistic enterocolitis’ claims
• Speech misattribution bias in schizophrenia offers clue to hallucinations
• Hippocampal function distinguishes bipolar disorder from schizophrenia
• Hippocampal function distinguishes bipolar disorder from schizophrenia
• Childhood and midlife vocabulary deficits seen in schizophrenia patients
• Hypertension more prevalent in youth with Type 2 than Type 1 diabetes
• Gene profiling improves rejection surveillance of cardiac transplant patients
• Antimanic medications for child bipolar I disorder underused in primary care
• Cannabis use associated with acute illness onset in psychosis
• High rate of bipolar disorder–OCD comorbidity in pediatric patients
• Suicidality in schizophrenia linked to insight, depression
• Severe HF patients ‘may benefit from ICD’
• Flax oil has limited efficacy in pediatric bipolar disorder

VTE recurrence risk not increased with thrombophilic mutations Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Patients with one or both of the factor V Leiden and prothrombin G20210A thrombophilic mutations do not have an increased risk for recurrent venous thromboembolism, study findings suggest.

Indoor ETS increases lower airway symptoms, decreases lung function Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Indoor exposure to environment tobacco smoke (ETS), but not exposure to other forms of indoor particulate matter air pollution, is associated with an increased risk for lower airway symptoms and reduced lung function in adults, research shows.

NNMT expression increased in skeletal muscles of COPD patients Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Expression of the nicotinamide N-methyltransferase enzyme is increased in the skeletal muscles of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, researchers have found.

Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy increases ILT3, ILT4 levels in cord blood Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Researchers have found that vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy increases levels of immunoglobulin-like transcripts (ILT)3 and ILT4 in the cord blood of babies.

MIS level does not predict breast cancerpost-chemotherapy menstrual status Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT For premenopausal women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, neither the baseline measurement nor a reduction of serum mullerian inhibitory substance, a marker of ovarian reserve, predict the future return of menses, US researchers report.

TGF-beta1 gene -509 C/T polymorphism is not linked to endometriosis Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT There is no significant difference in the genotype distributions or allele frequencies of the transforming growth factor beta gene-509 C/T polymorphism between women with endometriosis and women without it, say Korean researchers.

Follicular fluids may reveal whether oocytes will be successful in IVF Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT A combination of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-15 in the follicular fluid of women undergoing drug-free IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection indicates whether the retrieved oocyte is likely to result in birth, researchers report.

ISMI produces similar top-quality embryos to ICSI Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection produces embryos of the same quality as intracytoplasmic sperm injection, show study results.

Pain relief dosage during oocyte removal does not affect IVF results Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Fertilization rates, embryo quality, and pregnancy rates are not adversely affected by the dose of alfentanil a woman takes during oocyte removal before IVF, study results show.

IVF outcome adversely affected by air pollution Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Exposure to increasing levels of select air pollutants, particularly nitrogen dioxide, has a significant negative effect on the success of IVF, study results show.

Questions remain over ‘autistic enterocolitis’ claims Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT A special report published in the British Medical Journal suggests that evidence from the controversial Wakefield measles, mumps and rubella vaccine paper is not sufficient to confirm the existence of "autistic enterocolitis" as a syndrome.

Speech misattribution bias in schizophrenia offers clue to hallucinations Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Misattribution of self-generated speech to others may underlie auditory verbal hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia, research suggests.

Hippocampal function distinguishes bipolar disorder from schizophrenia Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Activation of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex during memory encoding and retrieval can help distinguish between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients, say researchers.

Hippocampal function distinguishes bipolar disorder from schizophrenia Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Activation of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex during memory encoding and retrieval can help distinguish between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients, say researchers.

Childhood and midlife vocabulary deficits seen in schizophrenia patients Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Adults with schizophrenia have impaired receptive vocabulary that is evident in childhood and deteriorates further in midlife, study findings show.

Hypertension more prevalent in youth with Type 2 than Type 1 diabetes Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Children and adolescents with Type 2 diabetes are more likely to have high blood pressure than those with Type 1 diabetes, report US researchers.

Gene profiling improves rejection surveillance of cardiac transplant patients Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Gene-expression profiling reduces the number of biopsies needed to monitor rejection in low-risk cardiac transplant patients, without any increase in serious adverse outcomes, show results of the IMAGE trial.

Antimanic medications for child bipolar I disorder underused in primary care Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT The use of antimanic medications by community practitioners for children with bipolar I disorder is relatively low, study findings suggest.

Cannabis use associated with acute illness onset in psychosis Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT In patients presenting with a first episode of psychosis, cannabis use in the previous year is associated with a more acute onset of illness, study results suggest.

High rate of bipolar disorder–OCD comorbidity in pediatric patients Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Around 20% of children and adolescents with an initial diagnosis of bipolar disorder also meet criteria for obsessive–compulsive disorder, while a similar number of obsessive–compulsive disorder patients have underlying bipolar disorder, study results show.

Suicidality in schizophrenia linked to insight, depression Posted: 19 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Schizophrenia patients who are suicidal upon admission to hospital show elevated depression, negative symptoms, and insight compared with their non-suicidal peers, study results show.

Severe HF patients ‘may benefit from ICD’ Posted: 19 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT The current prevailing assumption that patients with severe heart failure are unlikely to benefit from implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy must be questioned, argue researchers.

Flax oil has limited efficacy in pediatric bipolar disorder Posted: 19 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT Flax oil supplementation for children and adolescents with bipolar disorder achieves only marginal improvement in symptom severity, study results show.

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