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• Screening checks in adolescents with hypertension diverge from guidelines
• Do not shy away from sexual function discussion, doctors told
• Sleep related diabetes risk needs attention
• Do not shy away from sexual function discussion, doctors told
• Screening checks in adolescents with hypertension diverge from guidelines
• Healthcare-associated pneumonia management could be improved
• Early CT ‘definitive’ for subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosis
• SCIT may benefit affective disorder patients
• Altered default network connectivity in FEP patients
• PTSD prevalent in serious mental illness patients
• PTSD prevalent in serious mental illness patients
• Illiteracy linked to schizophrenia risk
• Brain response to emotion altered in BD youth
• Reduced white matter integrity in schizophrenia patients
• BD youth show altered frontal lobe bioenergetic metabolism
• Latest polypill trial yields largest improvements yet
• <i>T. gondii</i> link to schizophrenia supported

Screening checks in adolescents with hypertension diverge from guidelines Posted: 29 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Guideline-recommended diagnostic tests for hypertension complications, such as echocardiograms and renal ultrasonography, are being poorly used in adolescents, a study suggests.

Do not shy away from sexual function discussion, doctors told Posted: 29 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Physicians must enquire about erectile dysfunction symptoms in all men who are older than 30 years or have cardiovascular risk factors to ascertain their future cardiac risk, say researchers in the American Heart Journal.

Sleep related diabetes risk needs attention Posted: 29 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Strategies aimed at improving sleep quality among individuals without Type 2 diabetes may act as an additional tool in diabetes prevention, report researchers.

Do not shy away from sexual function discussion, doctors told Posted: 29 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Physicians must enquire about erectile dysfunction symptoms in all men who are older than 30 years or have cardiovascular risk factors to ascertain their future cardiac risk, say researchers in the American Heart Journal.

Screening checks in adolescents with hypertension diverge from guidelines Posted: 29 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Guideline-recommended diagnostic tests for hypertension complications, such as echocardiograms and renal ultrasonography, are being poorly used in adolescents, a study suggests.

Healthcare-associated pneumonia management could be improved Posted: 29 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Although healthcare-associated pneumonia is common among patients treated in internal medicine departments and linked to poor outcomes, rates of testing and adherence to therapeutic guidelines are low, say Spanish investigators.

Early CT ‘definitive’ for subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosis Posted: 29 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Cerebrospinal fluid analysis is only necessary for patients with thunderclap headache and a negative computed tomography scan if they undergo imaging more than 6 hours after headache onset, research suggests.

SCIT may benefit affective disorder patients Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Social cognition and interaction training may improve certain aspects of social cognition and functioning in patients with affective disorders, results from a preliminary study suggest.

Altered default network connectivity in FEP patients Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with a first episode of psychosis show altered functional connectivity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex default network subsystem, researchers report.

PTSD prevalent in serious mental illness patients Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Post-traumatic stress disorder is common among patients with serious mental illnesses, and is associated with an increased risk for suicide attempts, Spanish researchers report.

PTSD prevalent in serious mental illness patients Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Post-traumatic stress disorder is common among patients with serious mental illnesses, and is associated with an increased risk for suicide attempts, Spanish researchers report.

Illiteracy linked to schizophrenia risk Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT The risk for schizophrenia is significantly higher among illiterate than literate individuals in China, particularly among younger age groups, results from a population-based study show.

Brain response to emotion altered in BD youth Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Results from a US study show that adolescents with bipolar disorder (BD) have altered activation in certain brain regions in response to facial expressions of emotion.

Reduced white matter integrity in schizophrenia patients Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with schizophrenia show widespread reductions in white matter integrity, particularly in fronto-temporal regions, researchers report.

BD youth show altered frontal lobe bioenergetic metabolism Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Results from a US study suggest that depressed unmedicated adolescents with bipolar disorder (BD) have altered frontal lobe mitochondrial function.

Latest polypill trial yields largest improvements yet Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT The results of the first trial to administer the polypill on the basis of age alone has shown the largest reductions in blood pressure and cholesterol level of any polypill trial to date, researchers report.

<i>T. gondii</i> link to schizophrenia supported Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Study results support an associated between maternal infection with Toxoplasma gondii and an increased risk for schizophrenia in offspring.

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