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• Try resuscitating a little longer, say researchers
• Monthly sunlight increase linked to age at BD onset
• Night eating syndrome increased in schizophrenia patients
• On-the-spot test aids postsurgical coagulopathy management
• More focus required on hospice care for heart failure patients
• Exposure to household chemical may raise cardiac risk
• Unemployment barrier to antidiabetic medication adherence
• Sacral neuromodulation cost-effective for fecal incontinence
• Final push needed to eliminate malaria in Sri Lanka
• More focus required on hospice care for heart failure patients
• Arsenic induces acute promyelocytic leukemia remission
• Predictors for pain after breast cancer surgery unveiled

Try resuscitating a little longer, say researchers Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Researchers report in The Lancet that the duration of resuscitation attempts varies widely between hospitals and increasing it could improve survival in patients with cardiac arrest.

Monthly sunlight increase linked to age at BD onset Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Greater monthly increases in solar radiation at any given geographic location are associated with an earlier age at onset of bipolar disorder, researchers report.

Night eating syndrome increased in schizophrenia patients Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT The prevalence of night eating syndrome is significantly increased among patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who are obese, results from a US study suggest.

On-the-spot test aids postsurgical coagulopathy management Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Point-of-care thromboelastometric and aggregometric testing helps to reduce exposure to allogenic blood products in patients with coagulopathy after cardiac surgery, a randomized trial shows.

More focus required on hospice care for heart failure patients Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT End-stage heart failure patients enter hospice care closer to the time of their death, are more often referred from acute care facilities, and are more likely to die in acute care settings compared with cancer patients, show study results.

Exposure to household chemical may raise cardiac risk Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid may be associated with cardiovascular disease and peripheral arterial disease, say researchers.

Unemployment barrier to antidiabetic medication adherence Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT People with diabetes are less likely to adhere to their oral antidiabetic medication if they are unemployed, report researchers.

Sacral neuromodulation cost-effective for fecal incontinence Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Sacral neuromodulation is less costly than dynamic graciloplasty and artificial bowel sphincter for the treatment of fecal incontinence, show the results of a Dutch health economics study.

Final push needed to eliminate malaria in Sri Lanka Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Malaria has almost been eliminated in Sri Lanka, say researchers, who hope that the disease will be completely eradicated from the island by 2014.

More focus required on hospice care for heart failure patients Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT End-stage heart failure patients enter hospice care closer to the time of their death, are more often referred from acute care facilities, and are more likely to die in acute care settings compared with cancer patients, show study results.

Arsenic induces acute promyelocytic leukemia remission Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Elderly patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia have a high rate of response to arsenic trioxide, say researchers who believe the drug should be a first-line treatment in this population.

Predictors for pain after breast cancer surgery unveiled Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Researchers have identified that chronic preoperative pain, axillary surgery, and psychologic robustness significantly predict acute pain outcomes after breast cancer surgery.

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