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• Shots to the heart ‘not risky’
• Obese women draw the hypertension short straw
• Obese women draw the hypertension short straw
• Three-step clinical pathway for CAP reduces length of hospital stay
• Obese women draw the hypertension short straw
• Three-step clinical pathway for CAP reduces length of hospital stay
• Site of care linked to racial imaging disparities in stroke
• Brain activity patterns may aid mental illness diagnosis
• Oxytocin levels linked to medication dose, symptoms in schizophrenia
• High medical illness rates in bipolar disorder
• Family history influences age at prodrome and psychosis onset
• Psychiatric inpatients have low vitamin D levels
• Two coffees a day keep heart failure risk at bay
• Review confirms impaired cognition in prodromal psychosis
• Psychiatric inpatients have low vitamin D levels
• Liability for schizophrenia linked to cognition in mood disorders
• Liability for schizophrenia linked to cognition in mood disorders
• Genetic risk for schizophrenia linked to brain volume alterations

Shots to the heart ‘not risky’ Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Taser deployments to the chest are no more dangerous than those to other body parts, say researchers.

Obese women draw the hypertension short straw Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT The associations of obesity with prehypertension and hypertension are stronger in women than men, a study suggests.

Obese women draw the hypertension short straw Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT The associations of obesity with prehypertension and hypertension are stronger in women than men, a study suggests.

Three-step clinical pathway for CAP reduces length of hospital stay Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT A three-step pathway helps to reduce the duration of intravenous antibiotic treatment in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia, show study findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Obese women draw the hypertension short straw Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT The associations of obesity with prehypertension and hypertension are stronger in women than men, a study suggests.

Three-step clinical pathway for CAP reduces length of hospital stay Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT A three-step pathway helps to reduce the duration of intravenous antibiotic treatment in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia, show study findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Site of care linked to racial imaging disparities in stroke Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with stroke are less likely to undergo carotid artery imaging if they are treated at a hospital that serves a population with a high proportion of minority ethnicities, say researchers.

Brain activity patterns may aid mental illness diagnosis Posted: 28 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT The identification of neural activity patterns in response to facial expressions of emotion may help in the diagnoses of mental illness, say researchers.

Oxytocin levels linked to medication dose, symptoms in schizophrenia Posted: 28 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Higher doses of second-generation antipsychotics and more severe negative symptoms are associated with lower levels of oxytocin in cerebrospinal fluid among patients with schizophrenia, researchers report.

High medical illness rates in bipolar disorder Posted: 27 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Results from a US study show that more than half of patients with bipolar disorder have a significant burden of comorbid medical illnesses.

Family history influences age at prodrome and psychosis onset Posted: 27 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT A family history of psychosis is associated with an earlier age at onset of both prodromal symptoms and full-blown psychosis, US research shows.

Psychiatric inpatients have low vitamin D levels Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Results from a New Zealand study show that vitamin D deficiency is common in psychiatric inpatients, particularly among patients with schizophrenia and those of Maori descent.

Two coffees a day keep heart failure risk at bay Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Drinking two cups of coffee a day may significantly reduce risk for heart failure, while anymore than that could significantly increase the risk, researchers say.

Review confirms impaired cognition in prodromal psychosis Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients at high risk for psychosis show significant and widespread impairments in neurocognitive functioning and social cognition, results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies show.

Psychiatric inpatients have low vitamin D levels Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Results from a New Zealand study show that vitamin D deficiency is common in psychiatric inpatients, particularly among patients with schizophrenia and those of Maori descent.

Liability for schizophrenia linked to cognition in mood disorders Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Schizotypal traits and genetic liability for schizophrenia are associated with reduced cognitive functioning in patients with mood disorders, Japanese study results show.

Liability for schizophrenia linked to cognition in mood disorders Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Schizotypal traits and genetic liability for schizophrenia are associated with reduced cognitive functioning in patients with mood disorders, Japanese study results show.

Genetic risk for schizophrenia linked to brain volume alterations Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected first-degree relatives show altered gray and white matter volumes in specific brain regions compared with mentally healthy individuals, researchers report.

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