Monday, November 5, 2012

Medical News

Medical News


Stressful life events linked to bipolar depression

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Stressful life events, particularly independent severe, loss, and danger events, are significantly associated with depressive symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder, study results show.

Stressful life events linked to bipolar depression

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Stressful life events, particularly independent severe, loss, and danger events, are significantly associated with depressive symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder, study results show.

Toxoplasmosis linked to greater schizophrenia severity

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Schizophrenia patients infected with Toxoplasma gondii have more severe symptomatology than those without the infection, researchers report.

Toxoplasmosis linked to greater schizophrenia severity

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Schizophrenia patients infected with Toxoplasma gondii have more severe symptomatology than those without the infection, researchers report.

Living liver donors have QoL advantage

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Living liver donors have a better quality of life than the general population, show the results of a Japanese study.

Cervical cancer risk remains high after CIN treatment

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Women who undergo treatment for screening-detected cervical intraepithelial neoplasia are more than four times more likely to develop cervical cancer than women with normal smear tests, research suggests.

Neonatal TSH screening insensitive for iodine insufficiency

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Measuring levels of neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone may not be sufficiently sensitive for inferring the extent of iodine deficiency in a given population, study results suggest.

Sapacitabine tolerated, efficacious in elderly leukemia patients

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

The nucleoside analog sapacitabine appears to be "active and tolerable" in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia, say authors of a phase II study reported in the Lancet Oncology.

Cervical cancer risk remains high after CIN treatment

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

Women who undergo treatment for screening-detected cervical intraepithelial neoplasia are more than four times more likely to develop cervical cancer than women with normal smear tests, research suggests.

Lessons can be learnt from US fungal meningitis outbreak

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 05:00 PM PDT

As the current outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by contaminated methylprednisolone acetate injections continues to spread across the USA, past experience suggests that lessons can be learnt, says a US researcher.

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