Monday, July 2, 2012

Medical News

Medical News


Self-management of anticoagulants in elderly could be beneficial

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Elderly patients who self-manage their oral anticoagulant treatment have a comparable treatment-related quality of life to those who undergo routine care, and may even experience higher treatment satisfaction, researchers say.

Specific cytokine levels altered in BD patients

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Levels of certain cytokines differ between bipolar disorder (BD) patients and mentally healthy individuals, as well as between manic and euthymic patients with the mood disorder, results from a systematic review and meta-analysis show.

Emotion awareness linked to social functioning in schizophrenia

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Emotion awareness and regulation deficits are significantly associated with reduced social functioning in patients with schizophrenia, research shows.

Self-management of anticoagulants in elderly could be beneficial

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Elderly patients who self-manage their oral anticoagulant treatment have a comparable treatment-related quality of life to those who undergo routine care, and may even experience higher treatment satisfaction, researchers say.

Folic acid ‘may benefit diabetics’

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Folic acid supplementation can significantly reduce homocysteine levels and may therefore offer an approach for lowering cardiovascular risk among patients with Type 2 diabetes, report researchers.

Folic acid ‘may benefit diabetics’

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Folic acid supplementation can significantly reduce homocysteine levels and may therefore offer an approach for lowering cardiovascular risk among patients with Type 2 diabetes, report researchers.

Procoagulant–fibrinolytic balance may predict hepatectomy thrombosis

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

An imbalance in procoagulant/fibrinolytic blood factors may point to an increased risk for thrombosis following liver surgery, research suggests.

Routine use of pelvic CT scans in Wilms tumor questioned

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Omitting pelvic computed tomography scans from the routine surveillance of off-therapy patients with Wilms tumor could reduce radiation exposure without compromising relapse detection rates, researchers report.

DKK1 boosts liver cancer diagnostic options

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Measurement of the protein Dickkopf-1 in serum could be used to diagnose hepatocellular carcinoma, especially early disease, Chinese researchers report.

Procoagulant–fibrinolytic balance may predict hepatectomy thrombosis

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT

An imbalance in procoagulant/fibrinolytic blood factors may point to an increased risk for thrombosis following liver surgery, research suggests.

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