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• Vocational rehabilitation benefits schizophrenia patients
• Widespread cortical changes in pediatric bipolar disorder with psychosis
• Mucosal serotonin transporter activity reduced in diarrheal IBS, celiac disease
• Pravastatin does not protect elderly against VTE
• Hemostatic therapies may be irrelevant for most ICH patients
• PSA velocity ‘should not be included in practice guidelines’
• PSA velocity ‘should not be included in practice guidelines’
• Dyslipidemia common, undertreated among Chinese adults
• Primary care interventions help weight control
• Pravastatin does not protect elderly against VTE
• Diabetes increases risk for death from nonvascular causes
• BPD dramatically improves long-term outcome in Type 2 diabetes
• Early antiarrhythmics do not prevent late AF recurrence
• Risk model may help identify high-risk infective endocarditis patients
• Obesity may increase risk for triple-negative breast cancer

Vocational rehabilitation benefits schizophrenia patients Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Vocational rehabilitation improves cognition and reduces symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, say Brazilian researchers.

Widespread cortical changes in pediatric bipolar disorder with psychosis Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Children with bipolar disorder who also experience symptoms of psychosis show widespread cortical changes relative to their mentally healthy peers, research shows.

Mucosal serotonin transporter activity reduced in diarrheal IBS, celiac disease Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Patients with diarrhea-type irritable bowel syndrome or celiac disease have reduced platelet serotonin transporter function and depressed levels of serotonin transporter mRNA in the small bowel mucosa, according to results from a UK study.

Pravastatin does not protect elderly against VTE Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Pravastatin does not prevent venous thromboembolism in elderly people at risk for cardiovascular disease, study findings indicate.

Hemostatic therapies may be irrelevant for most ICH patients Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Hematoma expansion may not be a very useful prognostic marker in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, research suggests.

PSA velocity ‘should not be included in practice guidelines’ Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Men with rapid increases in prostate-specific antigen velocity – the rate at which prostate-specific antigen levels change over time – should not be recommended for biopsy in the absence of other prostate cancer indicators, say US researchers.

PSA velocity ‘should not be included in practice guidelines’ Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Men with rapid increases in prostate-specific antigen velocity – the rate at which prostate-specific antigen levels change over time – should not be recommended for biopsy in the absence of other prostate cancer indicators, say US researchers.

Dyslipidemia common, undertreated among Chinese adults Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Over half of Chinese adults aged 45 years or older have dyslipidemia, a major study has found.

Primary care interventions help weight control Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Two studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine this week support efforts by healthcare professionals in general practice to facilitate weight control among overweight and obese patients.

Pravastatin does not protect elderly against VTE Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Pravastatin does not prevent venous thromboembolism in elderly people at risk for cardiovascular disease, study findings indicate.

Diabetes increases risk for death from nonvascular causes Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Diabetic patients are at increased risk for death from cancer and other nonvascular causes, as well as being at increased risk for death from vascular disease, compared with nondiabetics, show study results.

BPD dramatically improves long-term outcome in Type 2 diabetes Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Research shows that Type 2 diabetes patients who undergo bilio-pancreatic diversion have significant improvements in diabetes, renal, and cardiovascular outcomes at 10 years compared with those who receive conventional diabetes therapy.

Early antiarrhythmics do not prevent late AF recurrence Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Use of antiarrhythmic drugs immediately after ablation therapy for atrial fibrillation reduces the risk for early recurrence of the arrhythmia, but does not affect the risk for recurrence at 6 months, findings from an extension of the 5A study suggest.

Risk model may help identify high-risk infective endocarditis patients Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST A risk prediction tool based on patient variables obtained within 72 hours of hospital admission may help to identify infective endocarditis patients at high risk for adverse in-hospital outcomes, Spanish researchers report.

Obesity may increase risk for triple-negative breast cancer Posted: 01 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST Data from the Women's Health Initiative study indicate a link between obesity and estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, and also suggest that obese women have an increased risk for triple-negative breast cancer.

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