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• Bladder cancer trends vary substantially by subtype
• Emotional distress highly prevalent in head and neck cancer patients
• Prognostication schemes for OSCC under the spotlight
• Emotional distress highly prevalent in head and neck cancer patients
• Lipid levels ‘not linked to suicide risk in bipolar disorder patients’
• GABA and Glx elevated in unmedicated schizophrenia patients
• Serum potassium should be lower than current guidelines recommend
• Undiagnosed diabetes common among Hong Kong drivers
• ApoE predicts incident CVD risk in women
• Vaccine prevents HSV-1 but not HSV-2 infection
• COMT SNP differentially affects emotion recognition in BD patients

Bladder cancer trends vary substantially by subtype Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST The overall incidence of bladder cancer has fallen by about 9% in the past 40 years, but while cases of nonpapillary transitional cell carcinoma (NPTCC) have halved, the incidence of papillary transitional cell carcinoma has risen by more than 50%, study findings indicate.

Emotional distress highly prevalent in head and neck cancer patients Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST People with head and neck cancer are particularly prone to suffering emotional distress, research suggests.

Prognostication schemes for OSCC under the spotlight Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Histologic Risk Assessment is the best available system to predict survival in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma, study findings show.

Emotional distress highly prevalent in head and neck cancer patients Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST People with head and neck cancer are particularly prone to suffering emotional distress, research suggests.

Lipid levels ‘not linked to suicide risk in bipolar disorder patients’ Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Italian researchers have found no evidence to suggest an association between lipid levels and suicide attempts in patients with bipolar disorder.

GABA and Glx elevated in unmedicated schizophrenia patients Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Unmedicated patients with schizophrenia show elevated levels of neurotransmitters γ-aminobutyric acid and combined glutamate-glutamine in the medial prefrontal cortex compared with medicated patients and mentally healthy individuals, researchers have found.

Serum potassium should be lower than current guidelines recommend Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Research suggests that the serum potassium levels in patients admitted to hospital with acute myocardial infarction should be maintained within a lower range than is currently recommended by current guidelines.

Undiagnosed diabetes common among Hong Kong drivers Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Professional drivers in Hong Kong appear to have a high prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes as well as high rates of cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome, shows a Chinese study.

ApoE predicts incident CVD risk in women Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Apolipoprotein E levels predict incident cardiovascular disease risk in women, but not men, with high levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and C-reactive protein, show study findings.

Vaccine prevents HSV-1 but not HSV-2 infection Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Researchers have found that an investigational vaccine prevents herpes simplex virus type 1, but not HSV-2 infection.

COMT SNP differentially affects emotion recognition in BD patients Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST A single nucleotide polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene is associated with differential facial emotion recognition deficits in manic and depressed patients with bipolar disorder, study results show.

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