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• HAS-BLED: Atrial fibrillation patients undergoing angioplasty can still take anticoagulants
• Telly tubby toddlers at risk for poor health
• Telly tubby toddlers at risk for poor health
• Impulsivity increased in siblings of BD I patients
• Cognitive function linked to suicidality in schizophrenia
• Childhood abuse affects the heart
• Alogliptin adds benefits to diabetes monotherapy
• Complete resection key to preventing recurrence in T4 rectal disease
• Pastoral support, not life-prolonging care, improves QoL at end of life
• Estrogen may mediate low incidence of HCC in women
• Marrow aspiration predicts smoldering multiple myeloma progression
• HNCA post-treatment depression impairs life quality
• Complete resection key to preventing recurrence in T4 rectal disease
• Hospital performance at mercy of stroke severity

HAS-BLED: Atrial fibrillation patients undergoing angioplasty can still take anticoagulants Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Researchers say that oral anticoagulation could improve the prognosis of atrial fibrillation patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention, even if they have a high bleeding risk according to the HAS-BLED score.

Telly tubby toddlers at risk for poor health Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Young children who watch too much television are at risk of becoming overweight and unfit as they approach puberty, show US researchers.

Telly tubby toddlers at risk for poor health Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Young children who watch too much television are at risk of becoming overweight and unfit as they approach puberty, show US researchers.

Impulsivity increased in siblings of BD I patients Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with bipolar I disorder and their unaffected siblings show increased levels of impulsivity, researchers report.

Cognitive function linked to suicidality in schizophrenia Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with schizophrenia who have contemplated suicide or made one suicide attempt have better cognitive functioning than those who have not, research shows.

Childhood abuse affects the heart Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Severe child abuse is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in early adulthood, report researchers in Circulation.

Alogliptin adds benefits to diabetes monotherapy Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Alogliptin is an effective add-on to glimepiride therapy for improving glycemic control in Japanese patients with Type 2 diabetes, show study findings.

Complete resection key to preventing recurrence in T4 rectal disease Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Achieving clear surgical margins is essential to the successful treatment of multivisceral resections in rectal cancer, a study confirms.

Pastoral support, not life-prolonging care, improves QoL at end of life Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Quality of life at the end of life is improved when advanced cancer patients avoid being hospitalized, when their worry is reduced, they are given pastoral as well as medical care, and when they feel they are in alliance with their physician, show results of the Coping With Cancer study.

Estrogen may mediate low incidence of HCC in women Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Study findings suggest that estrogen may have a suppressive effect on hepatocellular carcinoma, potentially explaining its lower incidence in women.

Marrow aspiration predicts smoldering multiple myeloma progression Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Smoldering multiple myeloma patients with bone marrow plasma cell involvement should be treated immediately, say Italian researchers who found these patients are at greatest risk for symptomatic disease.

HNCA post-treatment depression impairs life quality Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Individuals undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer have a high incidence of depression, US researchers show.

Complete resection key to preventing recurrence in T4 rectal disease Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Achieving clear surgical margins is essential to the successful treatment of multivisceral resections in rectal cancer, a study confirms.

Hospital performance at mercy of stroke severity Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Accounting for stroke severity has a major impact on the accuracy of models that rank the performance of hospitals in acute stroke care, show findings published in JAMA.

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