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• Improved asthma control linked to increased cardiovascular fitness
• Laparoscopic Heller myotomy most effective for treating achalasia
• Laparoscopic Heller myotomy most effective for treating achalasia
• Psychiatric disorders increase risk for near-lethal suicide attempts in male prisoners
• Elevated symptoms of mania may not indicate BPSD in children
• Early cannabis use linked to increased subclinical psychotic symptoms
• Obesity confers no benefit in patients with HF and diabetes
• Bipolar patients encouraged to use weight counseling services
• Intrauterine growth linked to schizophrenia risk
• End-of-life costs for HF patients ‘spiraling upwards’
• Corpus callosum volume reduced in bipolar youth
• Social disability may predict psychosis in at-risk patients
• Weight gain linked to functional impairment in BD-I

Improved asthma control linked to increased cardiovascular fitness Posted: 17 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Improvements in asthma control are associated with significant increases in daily physical activity and cardiovascular fitness in children, researchers have found.

Laparoscopic Heller myotomy most effective for treating achalasia Posted: 17 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Laparoscopic Heller myotomy with fundoplication has greater clinical success and results in less gastroesophageal reflux than pneumatic dilation for the treatment of achalasia, report Brazilian researchers.

Laparoscopic Heller myotomy most effective for treating achalasia Posted: 17 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Laparoscopic Heller myotomy with fundoplication has greater clinical success and results in less gastroesophageal reflux than pneumatic dilation for the treatment of achalasia, report Brazilian researchers.

Psychiatric disorders increase risk for near-lethal suicide attempts in male prisoners Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Most psychiatric disorders are associated with an increased risk for near-lethal suicide attempts in male prisoners, with major depression and psychoses posing the greatest risks, UK study results show.

Elevated symptoms of mania may not indicate BPSD in children Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Elevated symptoms of mania in children do not necessarily indicate the presence of a bipolar spectrum disorder, say US researchers.

Early cannabis use linked to increased subclinical psychotic symptoms Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Individuals who start using cannabis at the age of 12 years or younger experience more subclinical psychotic symptoms than those who start using the drug in later adolescence, research suggests.

Obesity confers no benefit in patients with HF and diabetes Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Patients with mild to moderate heart failure who also have Type 2 diabetes gain no apparent survival benefit from being obese, show study results.

Bipolar patients encouraged to use weight counseling services Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Results from a US study suggest that greater efforts are needed to encourage the continued use of weight counseling services among bipolar disorder patients.

Intrauterine growth linked to schizophrenia risk Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Results from a Finnish study suggest that high and low birth weight and short and long birth length are associated with an increased risk for schizophrenia in later life.

End-of-life costs for HF patients ‘spiraling upwards’ Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT End-of-life costs for patients with heart failure are increasing in Canada and the USA, despite a shift from inpatient to outpatient care, two studies reveal.

Corpus callosum volume reduced in bipolar youth Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Results from a brain imaging study suggest that young people with bipolar disorder have reduced corpus callosum volumes compared with their mentally healthy counterparts.

Social disability may predict psychosis in at-risk patients Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Certain measures of social disability may predict the development of psychosis in at-risk individuals, researchers have found.

Weight gain linked to functional impairment in BD-I Posted: 11 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT Weight gain is a significant, but often overlooked, cause of functional impairment in patients with bipolar I disorder, say Canadian researchers.

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